John Steppling
Birthday
1870/08/08
Day of death
1932/04/05 (61 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Essen, Germany
Also know as
John C. Steppling
Biography
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.
Acting
(1918) The Road Through the Dark
as Antoine Jardee
(1925) California Straight Ahead
as Jeffrey Browne
(1916) Miss Jackie of the Navy
as Undetermined role
(1920) The Heart of a Child
as Joe Mosenstein
(1922) The Sin Flood
as Swift
(1926) High Steppers
as John Steppling
(1919) Lombardi, Ltd.
as Max Strohan
(1914) Jim
as William Bent - the Publisher
(1922) Glass Houses
as The Lawyer
(1917) The Promise
as Fallon
(1932) Broken Lullaby
as ---
(1924) The Fast Worker
as Mr. Rodney
(2007) American dream
as głos
(1924) A Cafe in Cairo
as Tom Hays
(1920) The Husband Hunter
as Kelly
(1920) The County Fair
as Otis Tucker
(1923) Bell Boy 13
as ---
(1916) The Comet's Come-Back
as ---
(1915) Pretenses
as Mike Guffy
(1921) The Silver Car
as Vicar
(1918) Johanna Enlists
as Maj. Wappington
(1913) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as John Durbeyfield
(1923) Let's Go
as Andrew J. Macklin
(1918) Good Night, Paul
as Batiste Boudeaux
(1923) Going Up
as William Douglas
(1918) A Lady's Name
as Bird
(1917) A Bathtub Bandit
as ---
(1926) Memory Lane
as Mary's Father
(1920) Madame Peacock
as Rudolph Cleeberg
(1920) Billions
as Isaac Colben
(1925) Soft Shoes
as Markham
(1921) Black Beauty
as Squire Gordon
(1924) The Reckless Age
as Spencer Meyrick
(1926) The Better Man
as Phineas Ward
(1919) Luck in Pawn
as Abraham Armsberg
(1923) The Man Next Door
as David Wisner
(1921) Nobody's Kid
as ---
(1920) Sick Abed
as John Weems
(1913) Caprice
as Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1925) Eve's Lover
as Burton Gregg
(1924) The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Chairman of delegation
(1928) Behind the Counter
as Her Father
(1913) Billy McGrath on Broadway
as Billy McGrath
(1924) The Galloping Fish
as Cato Dodd
(1923) What a Wife Learned
as Maxfield
(1924) The Breathless Moment
as Banker Day
(1913) In the Bishop's Carriage
as Mr. Ramsey