John Steppling
John Steppling (8 August 1870 in Essen, Germany – 5 April 1932 in Hollywood, California) was a German-American silent film actor. He moved to America at a young age and entered film in 1912 aged 42. He starred in a total of 230 films between then and 1928, beginning with one of the first feature films ever made, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He is also credited with directing 7 films. He is the grandfather of playwright John Steppling.
Broken Lullaby
as uncreditedA young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who,...
Movie page
The County Fair
as Otis Tucker"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the...
Movie page
The Sin Flood
as SwiftStratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the...
Movie page
The Silver Car
as VicarAfter serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He...
Movie page
Glass Houses
as The LawyerWhen a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In...
Movie page
The Heart of a Child
as Joe MosensteinA poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a...
Movie page
Behind the Counter
as Her FatherEddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
Movie page
High Steppers
as John StepplingPerryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In...
Movie page
Billions
as Isaac ColbenPrincess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron...
Movie page
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Chairman of delegationA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the...
Movie page
Johanna Enlists
as Maj. WappingtonA young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an...
Movie page
Memory Lane
as Mary's FatherMary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man....
Movie page
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as John DurbeyfieldA peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is...
Movie page
California Straight Ahead
as Jeffrey BrowneWealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on...
Movie page
The Galloping Fish
as Cato DoddFreddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her...
Movie page
The Fast Worker
as Mr. RodneyRoxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith,...
Movie page
Sick Abed
as John WeemsWhen showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is...
Movie page
The Reckless Age
as Spencer MeyrickLord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia...
Movie page
Caprice
as Secondary Role (uncredited)A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is...
Movie page
The Man Next Door
as David WisnerThe story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a...
Movie page
What a Wife Learned
as MaxfieldA novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
Movie page
Pretenses
as Mike GuffyShort comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
Movie page
Bell Boy 13
as uncreditedHarry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his...
Movie page
Billy McGrath on Broadway
as Billy McGrathJohn Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which...
Movie page
Black Beauty
as Squire GordonAnna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the...
Movie page
Let's Go
as Andrew J. MacklinThe no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
Movie page
Miss Jackie of the Navy
as Undetermined roleAll of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except...
Movie page
Eve's Lover
as Burton GreggAustin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an...
Movie page
Madame Peacock
as Rudolph CleebergJane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the...
Movie page
The Road Through the Dark
as Antoine JardeeGabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John...
Movie page
A Lady's Name
as BirdBright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when...
Movie page
Nobody's Kid
as uncreditedBecause of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary....
Movie page
Lombardi, Ltd.
as Max StrohanTito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous...
Movie page
Soft Shoes
as MarkhamSheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith...
Movie page
Good Night, Paul
as Batiste BoudeauxMrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to...
Movie page
Luck in Pawn
as Abraham ArmsbergCountry girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages...
Movie page
The Better Man
as Phineas WardLord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty...
Movie page
The Promise
as FallonAfter an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home....
Movie page