Steve Railsback
Birthday: 1945-11-16
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography: Steve Railsback (born November 16, 1945, in Dallas, Texas) is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He is best known for his performances in the films The Stunt Man and Lifeforce, and his portrayal of Charles Manson in the 1976 television mini-series Helter Skelter. Railsback was a student of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and in the late 1960s and early 1970s spent 10 years working in theatre in New York City. He once said that he found Strasberg extremely difficult to work with. He made his film debut in The Visitors, directed by Elia Kazan. He portrayed two notorious murderers, appearing as Charles Manson in the 1976 television miniseries Helter Skelter and as Ed Gein in the 2000 film In the Light of the Moon. He also served as executive producer of the latter film. Other notable roles include the part of Cameron in The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole, the astronaut Tom Carlsen in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, Duane Barry in two episodes of The X-Files, and Joseph Welch in the pilot episode of Supernatural. In 2008, he appeared in the science fiction/horror movie film Plaguers.
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Night Caller
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The Box
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The Devil's Rejects
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Armed and Dangerous
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Intermedio
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Storytelling
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The Wind
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The Forgotten
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Lifeforce
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Barb Wire
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Disturbing Behavior
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Made Men
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Plaguers
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Cockfighter
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Alligator 2: The Mutation
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Ready or Not
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The Stunt Man
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Scissors
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Me and Will
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Helter Skelter
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Turkey Shoot
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Slash
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Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
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Ed Gein
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Neo Ned
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Nukie
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Deadly Games
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Trick or Treats
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Scenes from the Goldmine
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Final Mission
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Blue Monkey
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The Golden Seal
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American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
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Private Wars
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Forever
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Distortions
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Termination Man
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The Visitors
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Save Me
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Spearfield's Daughter
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Stranger in the House
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Best Served Cold
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Wild in Blue
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Great Transport
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Quake
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King of the Lost World
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Bonds of Love
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Infiltrators
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H: The Story of a Teen-Age Drug Addict
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In the Line of Fire
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Vanishing Point
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UnConventional
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Deadly Intent
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Calendar Girl
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Street Corner Justice
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Pressure Point
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Separated by Murder
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Gone Are the Days
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Angela
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Not Quite Hollywood
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Once Fallen
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Sunstroke
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The Assassin
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
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The Cops Are Robbers
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Deposito...
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The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
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The Cross of Iberia
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The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
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Follow the Prophet
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Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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The Making Of Lifeforce
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