John Steppling

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.

  • Title: John Steppling
  • Popularity: 0.788
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1870-08-08
  • Place of Birth: Essen, Germany
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  • Also Known As: John C. Steppling
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John Steppling Movies

  • 1918
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    The Road Through the Dark

    The Road Through the Dark

    1 1918 HD

    Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent...

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  • 1916
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    Miss Jackie of the Navy

    Miss Jackie of the Navy

    1 1916 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    California Straight Ahead

    California Straight Ahead

    7 1925 HD

    Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.

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  • 1920
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    The Heart of a Child

    The Heart of a Child

    1 1920 HD

    A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.

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  • 1922
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    The Sin Flood

    The Sin Flood

    1 1922 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    High Steppers

    High Steppers

    1 1926 HD

    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...

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  • 1919
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    Lombardi, Ltd.

    Lombardi, Ltd.

    1 1919 HD

    Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max...

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  • 1914
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    Jim

    Jim

    1 1914 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Glass Houses

    Glass Houses

    1 1922 HD

    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...

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  • 1917
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    The Promise

    The Promise

    1 1917 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Broken Lullaby

    Broken Lullaby

    7.5 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    The Fast Worker

    The Fast Worker

    1 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    American dream

    American dream

    1 2007 HD

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  • 1924
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    A Cafe in Cairo

    A Cafe in Cairo

    1 1924 HD

    When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought...

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  • 1920
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    The Husband Hunter

    The Husband Hunter

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1923
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    Bell Boy 13

    Bell Boy 13

    6 1923 HD

    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...

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  • 1920
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    The County Fair

    The County Fair

    4.7 1920 HD

    "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...

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  • 1915
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    Pretenses

    Pretenses

    1 1915 HD

    Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.

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  • 1916
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    The Comet's Come-Back

    The Comet's Come-Back

    1 1916 HD

    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...

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  • 1921
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    The Silver Car

    The Silver Car

    1 1921 HD

    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...

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  • 1918
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    Johanna Enlists

    Johanna Enlists

    5.8 1918 HD

    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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  • 1913
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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    1 1913 HD

    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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  • 1923
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    Let's Go

    Let's Go

    7 1923 HD

    The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.

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  • 1918
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    Good Night, Paul

    Good Night, Paul

    1 1918 HD

    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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  • 1923
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    Going Up

    Going Up

    1 1923 HD

    Going Up (1923)

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  • 1918
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    A Lady's Name

    A Lady's Name

    1 1918 HD

    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...

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  • 1917
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    A Bathtub Bandit

    A Bathtub Bandit

    5 1917 HD

    Bathtub movers on the job.

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  • 1926
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    Memory Lane

    Memory Lane

    1 1926 HD

    Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...

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  • 1920
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    Madame Peacock

    Madame Peacock

    1 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1920
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    Billions

    Billions

    5 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Soft Shoes

    Soft Shoes

    7 1925 HD

    Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and...

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  • 1921
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    Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    1 1921 HD

    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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  • 1924
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    The Reckless Age

    The Reckless Age

    5 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    The Better Man

    The Better Man

    1 1926 HD

    Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested...

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  • 1919
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    Luck in Pawn

    Luck in Pawn

    1 1919 HD

    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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  • 1923
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    The Man Next Door

    The Man Next Door

    1 1923 HD

    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...

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  • 1921
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    Nobody's Kid

    Nobody's Kid

    1 1921 HD

    Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an...

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  • 1920
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    Sick Abed

    Sick Abed

    1 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1913
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    Caprice

    Caprice

    1 1913 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Eve's Lover

    Eve's Lover

    1 1925 HD

    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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  • 1924
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    The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

    The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

    1 1924 HD

    A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

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  • 1928
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    Behind the Counter

    Behind the Counter

    7 1928 HD

    Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.

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  • 1913
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    Billy McGrath on Broadway

    Billy McGrath on Broadway

    5 1913 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    The Galloping Fish

    The Galloping Fish

    1 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1923
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    What a Wife Learned

    What a Wife Learned

    1 1923 HD

    A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

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  • 1924
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    The Breathless Moment

    The Breathless Moment

    1 1924 HD

    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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  • 1913
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    In the Bishop's Carriage

    In the Bishop's Carriage

    1 1913 HD

    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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