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.

Actor

1913

[ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles (John Durbeyfield)
[ ] Caprice (Secondary Role (uncredited))
[ ] Billy McGrath on Broadway (Billy McGrath)
[ ] In the Bishop's Carriage (Mr. Ramsey)

1914

[ ] Jim (William Bent - the Publisher)
[ ] Damaged Goods (Senator Locke)

1915

[ ] Pretenses (Mike Guffy)
[ ] Mixed Wires (Policeman)
[ ] The Jilt (Mr. Thompson)
[ ] Comrades Three (Hobs)
[ ] Detective Blinn (Judge Page)
[ ] The Deception (Dr. King)
[ ] Wait and See (James - the Valet)
[ ] The Zaca Lake Mystery (John - the Miner)
[ ] The High Cost of Flirting (Mr. Dunne - Ethel's Father)
[ ] By Whose Hand? (Joseph Toby - Lottie's Father)
[ ] His Obligation (Frank Lehner - Mary's Father)
[ ] The Guiding Light (????)
[ ] The Resolve (Simpson)
[ ] Reprisal (Judge Green)
[ ] The Greater Strength (The Foreman)
[ ] The Broken Window (The Professor)
[ ] One Summer's Sequel (Reverend David Barton)
[ ] Wife Wanted (J.D.P. Moore)
[ ] The Castle Ranch (Simpson - the Son's Valet)
[ ] The Wishing Stone (Allan's Grandfather)
[ ] The Problem (Grandfather)
[ ] His Brother's Debt (Mr. Myers)
[ ] Reformation (The Deacon)
[ ] Ancestry (The Innkeeper)
[ ] The Truth of Fiction (Bill Burton)
[ ] The Derelict (P.G. Wilke, Esq.)
[ ] The Decision (Judge Clarke)
[ ] Saints and Sinners (The Minister)
[ ] Justified (Sheriff Lacey)

1916

[ ] Miss Jackie of the Navy (Undetermined role)
[ ] The Comet's Come-Back (????)

1917

[ ] The Promise (Fallon)
[ ] A Bathtub Bandit (????)
[ ] A Man's Man (Neddy Jerome)
[ ] The Butterfly Girl (Heinie, the Weinie Man)

1918

[ ] The Road Through the Dark (Antoine Jardee)
[ ] Johanna Enlists (Maj. Wappington)
[ ] Good Night, Paul (Batiste Boudeaux)
[ ] A Lady's Name (Bird)

1919

[ ] Lombardi, Ltd. (Max Strohan)
[ ] Luck in Pawn (Abraham Armsberg)
[ ] Life's a Funny Proposition (Tobias)
[ ] Fools and Their Money (Chef)

1920

[ ] The Heart of a Child (Joe Mosenstein)
[ ] The Husband Hunter (Kelly)
[ ] The County Fair (Otis Tucker)
[ ] Madame Peacock (Rudolph Cleeberg)
[ ] Billions (Isaac Colben)
[ ] Sick Abed (John Weems)
[ ] Live Sparks (Jacob Abbott)
[ ] The Inferior Sex (George Mott / Smith)

1921

[ ] The Silver Car (Vicar)
[ ] Black Beauty (Squire Gordon)
[ ] Nobody's Kid (????)
[ ] Garments of Truth (Deacon Ballantine)

1922

[ ] The Sin Flood (Swift)
[ ] Glass Houses (The Lawyer)
[ ] Too Much Business (Simon Stecker)
[ ] Confidence (Henry Tuttle)

1923

[ ] Bell Boy 13 (????)
[ ] Let's Go (Andrew J. Macklin)
[ ] Going Up (William Douglas)
[ ] The Man Next Door (David Wisner)
[ ] What a Wife Learned (Maxfield)

1924

[ ] The Fast Worker (Mr. Rodney)
[ ] A Cafe in Cairo (Tom Hays)
[ ] The Reckless Age (Spencer Meyrick)
[ ] The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chairman of delegation)
[ ] The Galloping Fish (Cato Dodd)
[ ] The Breathless Moment (Banker Day)

1925

[ ] California Straight Ahead (Jeffrey Browne)
[ ] Soft Shoes (Markham)
[ ] Eve's Lover (Burton Gregg)

1926

[ ] High Steppers (John Steppling)
[ ] Memory Lane (Mary's Father)
[ ] The Better Man (Phineas Ward)