John Steppling
Birthday: 1870-08-08
Place of Birth: Essen, Germany
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.
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The Road Through the Dark
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg...
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California Straight Ahead
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his w...
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Miss Jackie of the Navy
All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for C...
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The Heart of a Child
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman...
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The Sin Flood
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks o...
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High Steppers
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In searc...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat...
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Jim
At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests ha...
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Glass Houses
When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim ...
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The Promise
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His...
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Broken Lullaby
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik...
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The Fast Worker
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and th...
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American dream
What connected Harry and Scarlet when the mysterious Cadillac appeared in the rearview mirror? A sto...
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A Cafe in Cairo
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encamp...
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The Husband Hunter
Millionaire Kent Whitney is warned by Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, about the ficklenes...
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The County Fair
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unle...
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Bell Boy 13
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts t...
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The Comet's Come-Back
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the...
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Pretenses
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl....
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The Silver Car
After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants ...
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Johanna Enlists
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army re...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced an...
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Let's Go
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal....
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Good Night, Paul
Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink t...
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A Lady's Name
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she a...
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Memory Lane
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Pro...
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Madame Peacock
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. R...
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Billions
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of t...
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Soft Shoes
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, ...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventur...
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The Reckless Age
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is...
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The Better Man
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American...
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Luck in Pawn
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her ...
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The Man Next Door
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o...
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Nobody's Kid
Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Fol...
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Sick Abed
When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by...
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Caprice
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous ...
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Eve's Lover
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impov...
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America...
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Behind the Counter
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums....
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Billy McGrath on Broadway
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is...
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The Galloping Fish
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new ...
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What a Wife Learned
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband....
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The Breathless Moment
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan,...
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In the Bishop's Carriage
A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righ...
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Too Much Business
Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes edito...
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Mixed Wires
Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he...
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The Jilt
Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he ...
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Detective Blinn
The intrepid Detective Blinn investigates a series of baffling jewel thefts targeting wealthy women....
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The Deception
Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdow...
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Wait and See
Young Beth Manners ekes out a living painting china. One day she finds a shoe that had been lost by ...
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The Zaca Lake Mystery
After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’...
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The High Cost of Flirting
Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne h...
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By Whose Hand?
Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in l...
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His Obligation
Young Mary Lehner is deceived and abandoned by Ralph Moore, a manipulative social climber. Mary, dau...
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The Guiding Light
The secluded life of sturdy young lighthouse-keeper Robert and his wife Anna is interrupted by a vis...
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The Resolve
Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife...
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Reprisal
A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpo...
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The Greater Strength
After accidentally injuring a friend in a wrestling match and swearing off violence of any kind, Dr....
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The Broken Window
A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence, ...
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One Summer's Sequel
Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's f...
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Wife Wanted
Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Mean...
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The Castle Ranch
Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy th...
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The Problem
Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied ...
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His Brother's Debt
After his brother's death, Arnold Downs, to save the reputation of his brother's sweetheart, Clara M...
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Reformation
Jimmie and Molly are a pair of sibling thieves-he a burglar, she a shoplifter. When Jimmie is arrest...
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Ancestry
After the Duke of Lorenzo discovers the Duchess with her lover, Count Riccardo the men duel leading ...
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The Truth of Fiction
Following a cattle roundup, rancher Burton provides a holiday for his cowboys. During the celebratio...
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The Derelict
Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could neve...
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The Decision
Ida Price has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She puts t...
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Saints and Sinners
In a village where appearances reigned, a wealthy woman, known as "The Saint," presided from her gra...
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Justified
Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worth...
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The Gay Old Bird
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated....
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Damaged Goods
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the ab...
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A Man's Man
John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts f...
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Live Sparks
Wealthy wastrel Neil Sparks devotes more attention to the pursuit of pleasure than to his inherited ...
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Fools and Their Money
Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from...
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Her Father Said No
While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in dis...
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The Inferior Sex
When his honeymoon is over, Knox Randall shifts his attention from his wife Ailsa to his business. F...
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