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Born Antonio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz at the Brazilian embassy in Rome, in the Pamphilj Palace, his family had noble blood of a long lineage of Count (von Hoonholtz) originally from Prussia; his great grandfather was the Great Baron of Tefé. Steffen was the first born among Manoel de Teffe' von Hoonholtz's children (followed by Federico de Teffe' and Melissa de Teffe'), who was a Formula One racing champion and later a Brazilian Ambassador. Steffen's grandaunt was Nair de Tefé von Hoonholtz, the first female caricaturist of Brazil and wife of Brazilian President Hermes Fonseca.
While still a teenager Steffen, then known as Antonio, fought in World War II along the Italian partisans against the Nazis.
Later and under the name Antonio de Teffé, he worked behind the scenes in several Italian productions in the early 1950s and later acted in several movies, but never really achieving stardom. In 1962, he had a bit part in Sodom and Gomorrah. An early appearance of his was in the 1955 Gli Sbandati.
From 1965 to 1975, the newly named Anthony Steffen achieved considerable fame in Europe, amassing cult status, starring in 27 Spaghetti Westerns. Considered to be an "Italian Clint Eastwood", he was sometimes unfairly criticized for being a stiff or wooden actor. Several of his movies were sizeable box office hits in Europe.
Django the Bastard (aka Stranger's Gundown, 1969) a movie that was produced and written by Steffen, is considered to be an inspiration for Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. In several of his movies, Steffen starred alongside other Spaghetti Western luminaries such as Gianni Garko, Peter Lee Lawrence, and William Berger. Outside of the Spaghetti western genre, Steffen also appeared in several Giallo movies including The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971). His roles and status diminished as the Spaghetti Western genre fell into decline. Amassing a considerable fortune from his career as an actor, Steffen embarked on a jet set lifestyle.
In his career Steffen performed alongside Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Claudia Cardinale, Elke Sommer, Giuliano Gemma, Franco Nero, Gian Maria Volonté, Esmeralda Barros and many other stars of the American and Italian cinema.
Always considered a huge star in Brazil because of the Spaghetti Western popularity in the South American country, Steffen returned to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the decade of 1980, until dying of cancer in 2004. He has maintained cult-status among fans of Italian Cinema for being perhaps the most prolific Spaghetti Western Leading actor.
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2018.
1 Movie
Doses of Horror
2018
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1991.
1 Movie
Malù e l'amante
1991
Joelle (Malú) lives on a large estate with her crippled husband, Il conte (Anthony Steffen). Just as he begins to feel he can't match up to his wife's sexual needs, his wife's ex-lover, Charles (Kiera...
1985.
1 Movie
Savage Island
1985
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
1983.
1 Movie
Momentos de Prazer e Agonia
1983
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
1980.
2 Movies
Escape from Hell
1980
A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swi...
Hotel Paradise
1980
At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the wa...
1979.
3 Movies
Zoo zéro
1979
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She sings about a doomed love affair between a lion tamer and a lion. She is approached by a stranger who claims t...
Killer Fish
1979
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
Play Motel
1979
There is a room at the motel designed for sexual activities. There is a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. The situation is changing one day when a killer with...
1976.
1 Movie
Rome, the Other Face of Violence
1976
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
1975.
3 Movies
Evil Eye
1975
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suff...
Sixteen
1975
Thinly sketched portrayal of Maria, a sixteen year old girl who is resentful of her mother's decision to live with her lover. She flirts with the lover and eventually succumbs to his lust.
A Diary of a Murderess
1975
A young woman is interested in an older millionaire. She moves into his mansion with him after having sex with him. After she gets rid of him, she goes after his child.
1974.
5 Movies
Charlotte
1974
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosop...
The Killer with a Thousand Eyes
1974
A special detective is sent to Lisbon in order to investigate a series of murders. After looking into the murders, our hero realises that they are somehow linked to an illegal drug smuggling operation...
Dallas
1974
Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden trea...
The Killers Are Our Guests
1974
After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexu...
1973.
2 Movies
Lady Dynamite
1973
Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip ...
Fuzzy the Hero
1973
Shosena, a clever bank robber, is associated with "Jaguar" to take a big hit. They think the town where the bank owned dock Koven, a man who has against all the farmers of the place. His only son, Geo...
1972.
3 Movies
Tropic of Cancer
1972
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
The Crimes of the Black Cat
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1972
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders by using a black cat with its caws dipped in curare.
They Believed He Was No Saint
1972
A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill...
1971.
2 Movies
Viva! Django
1971
Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The me...
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
1971
A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, looking for red-heads who ...
1970.
4 Movies
A Man Called Apocalypse Joe
1970
Travelling actor and gunman Joe Clifford inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle's murderer, controls it instead. Clifford sets about aveng...
Arizona Colt Returns
1970
When a $1,000 reward is put on the bounty hunter's head for a stagecoach robbery he didn't commit, he becomes the hunted in this action-packed sequel.
Sabata the Killer
1970
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!
Shango
1970
A former Confederate officer and his gang of criminals are trying to take over a local border town in search of gold, and they are facing off against a Texas Ranger.
1969.
3 Movies
No Room To Die
1969
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. Two bounty hunters may have to team up to achieve their goals, because his gang is made up of known c...
Django the Bastard
1969
A Union soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
Dead Are Countless
1969
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the arm...
1968.
6 Movies
A Stranger in Paso Bravo
1968
After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group ...
Gunman Sent by God
1968
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex whi...
Man Who Cried for Revenge
1968
Davy Flannigan (Steffen) lost all his memory of what happened during the war because he was double crossed and shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown Dixie, he's wanted for war crimes. Judg...
Dead Men Don't Count
1968
In a lawless town ruled by racketeering lawmen, the bounty hunters were wrongly accused of murder.
Western, Italian Style
1968
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scene...
Train for Durango
1968
2 buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
1967.
2 Movies
Killer Kid
1967
The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
Gentleman Killer
1967
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly my...
1966.
5 Movies
Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
1966
Director Mario Caiano, best known for horror films like Amanti d' Oltretomba, co-wrote this much-parodied spaghetti western. Another in a long line of films titled for Lorne Greene's 1964 hit song "Ri...
An Angel for Satan
1966
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carr...
$1,000 on the Black
1966
Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's b...
A Few Dollars for Django
1966
Django, bounty killer, hunter and repentant bandit wants to start a new life. No more bullets and blood, after years of killing and horror. Django wants to replace the sherrif and restore law and orde...
Seven Dollars on the Red
1966
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, g...
1965.
4 Movies
Lone and Angry Man
1965
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only g...
Blood at Sundown
1965
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death....
The Last Tomahawk
1965
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fig...
1963.
2 Movies
Avventura al motel
1963
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Revenge of the Black Knight
1963
La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights ...
1959.
2 Movies
The Jukebox Kids
1959
When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.
The Devil's Cavaliers
1959
Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.
1958.
2 Movies
City at Night
1958
A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
1958
The movie shows a time in the ancient Rome history when Nero was the emperor and the Christians were persecution. The story is about Antigonus's plan to build a temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodi...
1956.
1 Movie
Castle of the Banned Lovers
1956
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrez...
1955.
1 Movie
Eighteen Year Olds
1955
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
1953.
1 Movie
I'll See You on the Balcony
1953
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
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