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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.
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14 August 1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
13 February 1991
Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco.
13 August 1977
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future.
01 April 1989
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
03 October 1985
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love.
21 August 1975
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head.
28 October 1986
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure.
23 November 1976
Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.
02 October 2007
Interview with John Stiener about his career and views and perspectives on Caligula and some of his other movies.
17 September 1976
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan.
01 April 1988
David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities.
23 December 1977
As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side.
17 August 1984
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.
28 October 1982
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
19 April 1970
Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and responsible for a series of killings.
30 October 1967
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
19 October 1972
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
12 August 1977
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
28 April 1988
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc.
30 March 2012
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism.
24 October 1985
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day.
06 March 2008
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?".
02 August 1970
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.
02 March 1976
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.
17 March 1988
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
31 January 1969
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
26 August 1970
In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series of misadventures.
23 August 1977
Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of presumption, audacity and men ready to kill.
04 January 1980
A failed actor, broken by violence and rejection, finds refuge among outcasts and forms an unconventional bond, but their fragile peace is threatened by a jealous husband.
05 February 1988
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day.
18 October 1978
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings.
31 July 1986
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there.
06 April 1977
Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment.
01 January 1974
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room.
07 October 1969
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money.
06 September 1973
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities.
24 July 1981
When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circuit they call in a favor from a stock car mechanic who delivers more than they bargained for as he gives them the ultimate power car which he has spent years perfecting.
31 October 1986
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
21 December 1973
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
01 January 1989
Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an acclaimed Oscar winner, the other struggling in TV.
21 September 1977
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the engineer Farnese, who plots kidnappings unsuspectedly.
25 July 1970
After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.
01 January 1978
Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
10 March 1976
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer.
29 December 1970
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult.
08 August 1985
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
09 August 1980
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.
03 March 1973
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife.
19 August 1983
In prehistoric times, the muscular Yor saves his cave-babe from a dinosaur just before they get zapped into the future to battle bad guys in the familiar desolate wasteland.
15 September 1968
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
04 October 1973
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship.
05 March 1976
A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape.
25 April 1981
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander.
17 April 2013
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
02 January 1973
Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university.
06 May 1979
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo.
30 January 1986
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
25 October 1974
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.
30 May 1979
The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is fond of music and mathematics, with whom he becomes close friends.
28 November 1983
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
