RIP John Steiner

 

FAREWELL TO JOHN STEINER, FAMOUS FACE OF WESTERN SPAGHETTI AND POLIZIOTTESCHI

 

Asbury Movies

By Francesca Fiorentino

August 2, 2022

 

John Steiner , an English actor who built his career in Italy between the 60s and 90s, by participating in numerous genre films, died in Palm Springs, California after a car accident in nerby LaQuinta, California at the age of 81 . The Italian debut in 1967 in Tepepa, spaghetti western by Giulio Petroni with Tomas Milian and Orson Welles , after the collaboration with Peter Brook in Marat / Sade and Il mioamico diavolo by Stanley Donen .

Of manners and elegant figure Steiner was a character actor in many policemen for example Is the police at the service of the citizen ?, violent Rome and violent Milan . Then working with some of the most important names in genre cinema of the 70s such as Lucio Fulci ( White Fang, Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco or: Dracula in Brianza ) and Ruggero Deodato ( Wave of pleasure ).

And with Tinto Brass, with whom he filmed Salon Kitty, Caligola, Action and Paprika .

Steiner was also in Dario Argento's Tenebre , where he played the role of journalist Cristiano Berti. He was also featured in a small role in Carlo Verdone's comedy I due Carabinieri , in which he played the role of a psychiatric patient trying to take revenge on his doctor himself.

In 1991 Steiner retired from film and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he pursued a career as a real estate agent. Recently he had contributed, with his interviews of him, to enrich the extras of some DVDs.

STEINER, John [1/7/1941, Chester, Cheshire, England, U.K. – 7/31/2022, Palm Springs, California, U.S.A. ] – theater, film, TV actor, married to ? father of one son.

Blood and Guns – 1968 (Dr. Henry Price/Brice)

For Love of God – 1973 (ex-outlaw) [film was never made]

White Fang – 1973 (Charles 'Beauty' Smith)

Challenge to White Fang – 1974 (Beauty Smith/Charles Forth)

A Man Called Blade - 1977 (Theo Valler)

The Outsider – 2013 [himself]