John Steppling
Born: 1870-08-08 in Essen, Germany
Died: 1932-04-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2007
- American dream as głos
1932
1928
- Behind the Counter as Her Father
- Their Hour as Peggy's Father
1927
- The Gay Old Bird as Uncle
- Wedding Bills as District Attorney
- Her Father Said No as John Hamilton
- By Whose Hand? as Claridge
- California or Bust as President Holtwood
1926
- Memory Lane as Mary's Father
- The Better Man as Phineas Ward
- High Steppers as John Steppling
1925
- Soft Shoes as Markham
- California Straight Ahead as Jeffrey Browne
- Eve's Lover as Burton Gregg
1924
- The Reckless Age as Spencer Meyrick
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln as Chairman of delegation
- A Cafe in Cairo as Tom Hays
- The Fast Worker as Mr. Rodney
- The Breathless Moment as Banker Day
- The Galloping Fish as Cato Dodd
- Fools in the Dark as Julius Schwartz
1923
- Let's Go as Andrew J. Macklin
- Going Up as William Douglas
- What a Wife Learned as Maxfield
- Bell Boy 13
- The Man Next Door as David Wisner
1922
- Glass Houses as The Lawyer
- The Sin Flood as Swift
- Too Much Business as Simon Stecker
- Confidence as Henry Tuttle
1921
- Black Beauty as Squire Gordon
- The Silver Car as Vicar
- Garments of Truth as Deacon Ballantine
- Nobody's Kid
1920
- Madame Peacock as Rudolph Cleeberg
- The County Fair as Otis Tucker
- The Husband Hunter as Kelly
- Billions as Isaac Colben
- Live Sparks as Jacob Abbott
- The Inferior Sex as George Mott / Smith
- The Heart of a Child as Joe Mosenstein
- Sick Abed as John Weems
1919
- Luck in Pawn as Abraham Armsberg
- Lombardi, Ltd. as Max Strohan
- Life's a Funny Proposition as Tobias
- Fools and Their Money as Chef
1918
- Johanna Enlists as Maj. Wappington
- A Lady's Name as Bird
- Good Night, Paul as Batiste Boudeaux
- The Road Through the Dark as Antoine Jardee
1917
- The Promise as Fallon
- A Man's Man as Neddy Jerome
- A Bathtub Bandit
- The Butterfly Girl as Heinie, the Weinie Man
1916
- Miss Jackie of the Navy as Undetermined role
- The Comet's Come-Back
1915
- Reformation as The Deacon
- The Resolve as Simpson
- The Broken Window as The Professor
- Justified as Sheriff Lacey
- Mixed Wires as Policeman
- The Derelict as P.G. Wilke, Esq.
- The Zaca Lake Mystery as John - the Miner
- The Guiding Light
- The Jilt as Mr. Thompson
- Comrades Three as Hobs
- The Problem as Grandfather
- By Whose Hand? as Joseph Toby - Lottie's Father
- His Obligation as Frank Lehner - Mary's Father
- The Truth of Fiction as Bill Burton
- Wife Wanted as J.D.P. Moore
- His Brother's Debt as Mr. Myers
- The Greater Strength as The Foreman
- Ancestry as The Innkeeper
- The Decision as Judge Clarke
- Saints and Sinners as The Minister
- Detective Blinn as Judge Page
- Pretenses as Mike Guffy
- One Summer's Sequel as Reverend David Barton
- The High Cost of Flirting as Mr. Dunne - Ethel's Father
- Wait and See as James - the Valet
- The Deception as Dr. King
- Reprisal as Judge Green
- The Castle Ranch as Simpson - the Son's Valet
- The Wishing Stone as Allan's Grandfather
1914
- Damaged Goods as Senator Locke
- Jim as William Bent - the Publisher
1913
- In the Bishop's Carriage as Mr. Ramsey
- Caprice as Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Billy McGrath on Broadway as Billy McGrath
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles as John Durbeyfield