Farewell to John Steiner, famous character actor of Italian cinema: he played for Tinto Brass, Carlo Verdone, Dario Argento and many others
By: VirgilioNotizie | Published on: 08.02.2022 18:40
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sad again Mourning for Italian cinema and internationally particularly plagued by sudden grief in these last weeks of summer: He is dead John Steineran English character actor who has linked his career with Italy and directors like Carlo Verdone, Tinto brass, Dario Argento and many other great masters of the seventh art.
John Steiner died at the age of 81
English by birth, Italian by profession Adoption: the death of John Steiner will not leave indifferent the lovers of the Bel Paese cinema of the 60s and 70s.
According to foreign sources, Steiner died at the age of 81 as a result of a car accident July 31, 2022. It was in The fifthResidential town of Riverside County in Californiawhere the actor had moved in the ’90s.
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Steiner’s farewell to cinema dates back to 1991, after which the Englishman moved to Los Angeles and worked as a real estate agent.
The career of the English actor
Born in Chester in 1941, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his debut in the cult film by Peter Bach‘Marat/Sade’ from 1967. The transition to Italian cinema comes almost simultaneously thanks Giulio Petroni and be ‘Tepepa’in which John Steiner played the main character Tomas Milian and from Orson Welles. With the legendary director he also acted in ‘one of 13′Next Vittorio Gassman and Sharon Tate.
From that moment followed two decades of great collaboration with the largest Italian cinema: in 1973 he starred for Marco Bellocchio in ‘Slam the monster on the front page‘ and for Lucio Fulci in ‘White Fang‘and its sequel the following year. Fulci is always worth remembering.The cave. Permanent demonic Nicosia or: Dracula in Brianza‘1975.
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Role after role, John Steiner has established himself as a great character actor, often playing the villain in unforgettable spaghetti westerns and cops.
Films with Tinto Brass and Carlo Verdone
Among the collaborations that shaped John Steiner’s career the most – between ‘wave of joy‘ out Ruggero Deodato‘shock ‘out Mario Bava And ‘Darkness‘ out Dario Argento – two names in particular are memorable.
The first is Tinto brassMaster of erotic cinema with which the Englishman shot ‘Salon Kitty‘,’Caligula‘,’action“and the last film of his career”,paprika‘. The other is carlo verdone, saying goodbye to another face with whom he shared his career. With and for the Roman filmmaker there is ‘The two Carabinieri‘ from 1984 – a film in which he played the psychopath on the trainToo strong‘from 1986.
Photo source: IPA Some of the directors with whom John Steiner shared his career: Tinto Brass, Carlo Verdone and Dario Argento
However, the penultimate role of his life was still that of a villain, or the evil vizier jaffar addressed by the Sinbad out Lou Ferrigno in ‘Sinbad of the seven seas‘, directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
Photo source: Wikipedia