John Steiner 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 No�l Coward. Later he found further work primarily in films including Marat/Sade, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Bedazzled, and Work Is a Four-Letter Word with Cilla Black. In 1969, Steiner was hired to play a part in the spaghetti western Tepepa, and also appeared opposite Franco Nero in White Fang, directed by Lucio Fulci. He found himself in demand in Italy and moved there, appearing in a great number of Italian B-films and exploitation films including police actioners, westerns, war films, nazisploitation, sci-fi adventure films, and horror films, such as Mario Bava's Shock, Dario Argento's Tenebrae, and Ruggero Deodato's Body Count. He also became a favourite of famed Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass, featuring in Salon Kitty and the infamous Caligula. [More at Wikipedia]

January 7th, 1941 in Chester  /  Died:   Jul 31st, 2022 - 81, car accident