John Steiner
John Steiner (born 7 January 1941 in Chester) is an English actor. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC. Steiner featured in a lead role in a television production of Design for Living by Noel Coward. Later he found further work primarily in films. In the late 1960s, Steiner was hired to play a part in the spaghetti western Tepepa. He found himself in demand in Italy and relocated there, specializing in playing villains in a great number of Italian B-movies and exploitation films. John Steiner has appeared in various genres of movies, including horror films and police actioners. He also became a favorite of famed Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass featuring in Salon Kitty alongside Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger. Steiner was in very steady demand until the late 1980s. As the Italian film industry dwindled, Steiner retired from acting in 1991 and relocated to California, where he became a real estate agent. In the late 1990s a special magazine was started by Cranston McMillan's Also Press. Titled, John Steiner the zine was dedicated to Steiner's film, TV and stage work, featured reviews and helping fans trace prints of his more obscure Italian work, the publication triggered new interest in the happily retired star. Selling mainly in mainland Europe and the USA the zine ran until successfully 2005. A special large format issue ended the run. McMillan remains the best authority on John Steiner and has promised that his long awaited definitve work on the actors career will be with publishers soon. Steiner has recently contributed to DVD extras on some of his films and given interviews about his Italian work. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steiner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Paprika
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Caligula
as LonginusAfter the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges...
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Salon Kitty
as BiondoKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have...
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Tenebre
as Christiano BertiA razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American...
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Challenge to White Fang
as Beauty Smith / Charles ForthSequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the...
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Bedazzled
as TV Announcer (uncredited)A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble...
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Shock
as Bruno BaldiniA couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former...
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Waves of Lust
as GiorgioA young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored...
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Slap the Monster on Page One
as Ing. MontelliDays before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted...
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
as JaffarSinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
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White Fang
as Charles 'Beauty' SmithThe wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his...
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I due carabinieri
as Crazy man on the trainTwo deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie...
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A Man Called Blade
as VallerMaurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more...
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Troppo forte
as Mike AdamsOscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident...
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Cut and Run
as VladoA reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to...
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Deported Women of the SS Special Section
as Herr ErnerYoung women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp,...
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The Salamander
as Captain RoditiAn Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions....
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Yor, the Hunter from the Future
as OverlordIn prehistoric times, the muscular Yor saves his cave-babe from a dinosaur just before they get...
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Body Count
as Dr. OlsenA bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a...
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Twelve Plus One
as StanleyMario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides...
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The Ancines Woods
as RobertBenito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and...
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Massacre in Rome
as SS-Standartenführer Eugen DollmannIn the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the...
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Tepepa
as Doctor Henry PriceThe Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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The Commander
as DuclaudLewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast...
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Plot of Fear
as HoffmannPlot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the...
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The Berlin Affair
as Oskar EngelhartWhat begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden...
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I Don't Want to Be Born
as Tommy MorrisA woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly...
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The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
as Captain David FranksAn American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called...
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Marat/Sade
as Monsieur DupereIn Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the...
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The Last Hunter
as Major William CashDuring the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his...
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It
as PiroArrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or...
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The Lone Runner
as SkormThe Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her...
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as SelfThis documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci...
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Action
as The ManagerBruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes...
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Commando Leopard
as SmithyA cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are...
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Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
as SelfA documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s...
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The Ark of the Sun God
as Lord DeanA safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to...
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Violent Rome
as Franco "Chiodo" SpadoniA detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds...
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The Police Serve the Citizens?
as LambroIn Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that...
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Morel's Invention
as MorelA castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a...
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Goodbye & Amen
as Donald GraysonAs John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he...
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Mark Strikes Again
as Paul HenkelA murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned...
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Striker
as KariasinJohn Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in...
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Bali
as GlennThe wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex...
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A Girl Called Jules
as LucianoAfter his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this...
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Mystère
as IvanovAssassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that,...
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Cobra Mission
as James WalcottTen years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to...
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
as Frederick, Fulvia's loverA charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
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Violent Milan
as FaustoA gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two...
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May Morning
as Roderick Rodney StantonA dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at...
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Julia and Julia
as AlexGiulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband...
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The Outsider - The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
as SelfDocumentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
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Appuntamento a Liverpool
as British Police InspectorCaterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's...
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as uncreditedAntonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the...
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The Hornet's Nest
as FisherA compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a...
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Question of Love
as Tom HastingsArchitect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his...
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The Night of the Sharks
as RosentskiDavid must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with...
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Count DragulescuA boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a...
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The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
as RudyReturning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his...
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Il prigioniero
as uncreditedItalian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
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Car Crash
as KirbyWhen successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing...
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Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as AnthonyDreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate...
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The Golden Ass
as AristomeneIn ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a...
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The Little Archimedes
as AlfredThe action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in...
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Occupations
as TerriniIn an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover...
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Design for Living
as LeoDesign for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and...
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Gangbusters
as KillerMario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on...
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Holidays
as ScagnettiRossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the...
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Massacre Play
as uncreditedEstranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one...
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The Last Day of School Before Christmas
as uncreditedDirected by Gian Vittorio Baldi
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The Saint
as Grey WylerSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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Department S
as HershallDepartment S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The...
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A.D.
as Simon der MagierA 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
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Big Man
as ZebraThe renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective...
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The World of Yor
as Il SupremoA warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.
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Hine
as uncreditedBarrie Ingham (The Caesars) stars as Joe Hine, an international arms dealer battling to stay one...
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