John Steppling
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.556 |
| Birthday | 1870-08-08 |
| Place of Birth | Essen, Germany |
| Also Known As | John C. Steppling, |
1918
The Road Through the Dark
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Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent awa...
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The Road Through the Dark
1916
Miss Jackie of the Navy
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All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for Captain Robert Crowne. As a result, roused by the c...
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Miss Jackie of the Navy
1925
California Straight Ahead
7/1
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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California Straight Ahead
1920
The Heart of a Child
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A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
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The Heart of a Child
1922
The Sin Flood
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Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a...
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The Sin Flood
1926
High Steppers
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Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets...
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High Steppers
1919
Lombardi, Ltd.
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Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm,...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
1914
Jim
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At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests have all departed save one, the husband's most intim...
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Jim
1922
Glass Houses
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When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim and proper working girl attire she becomes the res...
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Glass Houses
1917
The Promise
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After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his car...
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The Promise
1932
Broken Lullaby
7.5/39
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each h...
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Broken Lullaby
1924
The Fast Worker
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Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith'...
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The Fast Worker
2007
American dream
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American dream
1924
A Cafe in Cairo
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When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought u...
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A Cafe in Cairo
1920
The Husband Hunter
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The Husband Hunter
1923
Bell Boy 13
6/1
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so muc...
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Bell Boy 13
1920
The County Fair
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"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man...
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The County Fair
1915
Pretenses
0/0
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
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Pretenses
1916
The Comet's Come-Back
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The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops tim...
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The Comet's Come-Back
1921
The Silver Car
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After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his li...
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The Silver Car
1918
Johanna Enlists
5.8/7
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
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Johanna Enlists
1913
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1/1
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1923
Let's Go
7/3
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
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Let's Go
1918
Good Night, Paul
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Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle...
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Good Night, Paul
1923
Going Up
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Going Up (1923)
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Going Up
1918
A Lady's Name
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Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas f...
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A Lady's Name
1917
A Bathtub Bandit
5/1
Bathtub movers on the job.
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A Bathtub Bandit
1926
Memory Lane
0/0
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their...
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Memory Lane
1920
Madame Peacock
0/0
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane i...
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Madame Peacock
1920
Billions
5/1
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impo...
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Billions
1925
Soft Shoes
7/1
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight bre...
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Soft Shoes
1921
Black Beauty
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Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
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Black Beauty
1924
The Reckless Age
5/2
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot...
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The Reckless Age
1926
The Better Man
0/0
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in...
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The Better Man
1919
Luck in Pawn
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Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works...
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Luck in Pawn
1923
The Man Next Door
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The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon ha...
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The Man Next Door
1921
Nobody's Kid
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Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an orphan...
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Nobody's Kid
1920
Sick Abed
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When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are force...
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Sick Abed
1913
Caprice
1/1
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incogni...
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Caprice
1925
Eve's Lover
0/0
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can...
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Eve's Lover
1924
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
0/0
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1928
Behind the Counter
7/1
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
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Behind the Counter
1913
Billy McGrath on Broadway
5/1
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a B...
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Billy McGrath on Broadway
1924
The Galloping Fish
0/0
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his t...
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The Galloping Fish
1923
What a Wife Learned
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A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
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What a Wife Learned
1924
The Breathless Moment
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Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan, his confederate, to spend a year in a small town.
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The Breathless Moment
1913
In the Bishop's Carriage
1/1
A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.
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