John Steppling
Acting
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.
As actor 93
The Problem
1915
The Resolve
1915
Live Sparks
1920
His Obligation
1915
Wedding Bills
1927
American dream
2007
Glass Houses
1922
The Decision
1915
Jim
1914
The Jilt
1915
Comrades Three
1915
Madame Peacock
1920
Broken Lullaby
1932
Caprice
1913
The Deception
1915
Memory Lane
1926
Wife Wanted
1915
Mixed Wires
1915
Reprisal
1915
Billions
1920
The Derelict
1915
Justified
1915
Their Hour
1928
The Alarm of Angelone
1914
The Castle Ranch
1915
A Bathtub Bandit
1917
Eve's Lover
1925
Garments of Truth
1921
California Straight Ahead
1925
Fools and Their Money
1919
The Comet's Come-Back
1916
The Man Next Door
1923
Luck in Pawn
1919
By Whose Hand?
1927
The Wishing Stone
1915
California or Bust
1927
One Summer's Sequel
1915
The Greater Strength
1915
Her Father Said No
1927
Miss Jackie of the Navy
1916
Fools in the Dark
1924
By Whose Hand?
1915
The Gay Old Bird
1927
His Brother's Debt
1915
The Broken Window
1915
Ancestry
1915
Good Night, Paul
1918
The Guiding Light
1915
The Inferior Sex
1920
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924
Bell Boy 13
1923
Billy McGrath on Broadway
1913
The High Cost of Flirting
1915
Saints and Sinners
1915
Lombardi, Ltd.
1919
Soft Shoes
1925
Wait and See
1915
Nobody's Kid
1921
The Butterfly Girl
1917
Confidence
1922
A Lady's Name
1918
The Heart of a Child
1920
Johanna Enlists
1918
Sick Abed
1920
A Cafe in Cairo
1924
The Zaca Lake Mystery
1915
The Breathless Moment
1924
A Man's Man
1917
Damaged Goods
1914
Going Up
1923
The Reckless Age
1924
The Fast Worker
1924
Black Beauty
1921
Too Much Business
1922
High Steppers
1926
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1913
The Husband Hunter
1920
The Sin Flood
1922
The Better Man
1926
The Promise
1917
The Truth of Fiction
1915
What a Wife Learned
1923
Behind the Counter
1928
Let's Go
1923
Pretenses
1915
The Road Through the Dark
1918
Detective Blinn
1915
In the Bishop's Carriage
1913
Reformation
1915
The County Fair
1920
Life's a Funny Proposition
1919
The Silver Car
1921
The Galloping Fish
1924