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 wit...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2025
as Self
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including tw...

Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep
2024
Renowned oneirologist Ambrose London is requested to appear at Arkham Asylum to study the strange case of dissociative identity disorder in patient Ja...

Night Caller
2022
as Andrew Lubitz
Telephone psychic Clementine Carter is pulled into a complex web of mystery when she receives a call from a serial killer. Predicting his murders befo...

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as Self
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: LATER IN L.A. is a brand new compilation of the mo...

Gone Are the Days
2018
as Jaden
The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn, a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sord...

Infiltrators
2014
as Sebastian Koenig
An 'urban explorer' is blackmailed into infiltrating a derelict building on the eve of its demolition in the hope he can recover a forgotten treasure.

Wild in Blue
2014
as Charlie's Father
A story about a madman with a movie camera. He's a narcissist, nihilist, sexual sadist and killer of innocent women. His name is Charlie and WILD IN B...

Once Fallen
2010
as Aryan Boss
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his fathe...

Plaguers
2010
as Tarver
When an alien contagion is released aboard a spaceship transforming its victims into demonic flesh-eaters, the crew must either destroy the infected o...

American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
2009
as Alumnus Guy #5
Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High. Unfo...

Follow the Prophet
2009
as Senator Stanton
Follow the Prophet is an American film that was written by and stars Robert Chimento, which was created to show how polygamist lifestyles affect the c...

Ready or Not
2009
as Pilot
Four college buddies find themselves on the adventure of their lives, when on the morning after a Las Vegas bachelor party, they end up stranded deep ...

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
2008
as The Owner
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with ...

Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...

King of the Lost World
2005
as Larry
In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. ...

The Devil's Rejects
2005
as Sheriff Ken Dwyer
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

Neo Ned
2005
as Mr. Day
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his...

Intermedio
2005
as Old Man
Under the border leading into Mexico, within a labyrinth of caves, a deadly presence haunts all who enter. For four friends on an expedition, the cave...

UnConventional
2004
as Self
Halloween 2003 marked the 13th anniversary of the Chiller Theatre Horror Movie Convention ... but there was nothing conventional about it. UnConventio...

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
2003
as Deputy Jessup (uncredited)
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.

The Box - 2003
2003
as Jake Ragna
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her ...

Slash
2002
as Jeremiah
A rock band gets stuck on a haunted farm while visiting its lead singer's family.

Storytelling
2001
as Mr. Kirk
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

Zigs
2001
as Charlie
Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

Ed Gein
2000
as Ed Gein
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the...

Ed Gein
2000
Executive Producer
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the...

The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
2000
In 1980, The Stunt Man, starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback, became one of the most acclaimed motion pictures of the decade -- an odd mixture o...

Me and Will
1999
as Rob
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, ...

Made Men
1999
as Kyle
A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the mo...

Disturbing Behavior
1998
as Officer Cox
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique k...

Termination Man
1998
as Dylan Pope
When a Serbian terrorist blackmails NATO and the U.N. with a deadly nerve gas, a covert squad is the Free World's last hope. Led by Dylan Pope they mu...

Pressure Point
1997
as Arno Taylor
A CIA assassin is embroiled in a deadly game across two continents. Betrayed and imprisoned, he faces one last mission to regain his freedom, his fami...

Vanishing Point
1997
as Sergeant Preston
When his wife goes into a troubled labor while he is on the road over 1200 miles away James Kowalski, an ex race car driver and a former Army Ranger, ...

Stranger in the House
1997
as Jack Derby
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.

Street Corner Justice
1996
as Sergeant Ryan Freeborn
Pittsburgh cop Mike Justus is kicked off the force and moves away to relax in sunny Los Angeles. Unfortunately his dream retirement turns out to be a ...

Barb Wire
1996
as Colonel Pryzer
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scienti...

Final Mission
1994
as Colonel Glen Anderson
Captain Tom "Outlaw" Waters is one of four Air Force pilots taking part in a "black" Defense project involving virtual reality. The project is managed...

The Flight of the Dove
1994
Director
An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in love and fighting the spy ring out to kill them.
Separated by Murder
1994
as Jesse Dixon
Inseparable Alabama twin sisters, Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, are arrested and tried for conspiring to murder Betty's wealthy husband. These ...

Save Me
1994
as Robbins
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.

Private Wars
1993
as Jack Manning
A wealthy businessman is trying to "convince" the inhabitants of an old neighborhood to abandon their homes in order to build a huge business center t...

Calendar Girl
1993
as Eddie Darpinian
Three young men go on an end of the summer trip to Hollywood, California. Their quest: to fulfill the fantasy of meeting Marilyn Monroe.

In the Line of Fire
1993
as CIA Agent David Coppinger (uncredited)
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...

Bonds of Love
1993
as Ken Smith
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

Sunstroke
1992
as Biggs
After a bitter divorce, Teresa embarks on a noir journey to recover custody of her daughter. Murder, blackmail, and a mysterious stranger await her at...

Quake
1992
as Kyle
Set around the tragic events of an earthquake, a young couple experience the horror of being terrorized by a psychotic neighbor in a city where panic ...

Forever
1992
as William Desmond Taylor
A hot-shot music video director moves into a haunted house, where he's seduced and possessed by two alluring and sexy women. One, a beautiful ghost, t...

Alligator 2: The Mutation
1991
as Vinnie Brown
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.

Scissors
1991
as Alex Morgan / Cole Morgan
A woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She t...

The Cops Are Robbers
1990
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clem...

The Assassin
1990
as Hank Knight
The basic plot of this film concerns a secret service-esque man in Mexico battling personal demons who discovers a conspiracy behind an assassination ...

La cruz de Iberia
1990
as Novak

The Forgotten
1989
as Lt. Jesse Brady
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are fi...

The Forgotten
1989
Executive Producer, Writer
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are fi...

Deadly Intent
1988
as Jeff Kirkwood
An archaeologist smuggles a valuable ancient jewel into the US. He is soon murdered by people looking for the jewel, but he had hidden it. The killers...

Blue Monkey
1987
as Det. Jim Bishop
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency ro...

Scenes From the Goldmine
1987
as Harry Spiros
A girl trying to make it in the 1980's New Wave rock and roll scene in L.A.

Nukie
1987
as Dr. Eric Harvey
A space child, lost in the universe, is abducted by the U. S. Space Foundation. In a desperate intergalactic search for the frightened little alien, h...
Distortions
1987
as Scott Marshall
A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and ...

The Survivalist
1987
as Jack Tillman
An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.

The Wind
1986
as Kesner
Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival ...

Armed and Dangerous
1986
as The Cowboy
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...

Spearfield's Daughter
1986
as Tom Border
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journalism.

Lifeforce
1985
as Col. Tom Carlsen
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zo...

Torchlight
1985
as Jake Gregory
A happy marriage turns sour when the husband becomes addicted to cocaine.

The Golden Seal
1983
as Jim Lee
A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. ...

Great Transport
1983
as Pavle Paroški
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodin...

Trick or Treats
1982
as Bret
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged...

Deadly Games
1982
as Billy Owens
A masked maniac with a penchant for a monster-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town. Each time the...

Turkey Shoot
1982
as Paul Anders
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the cam...

The Stunt Man
1980
as Cameron
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while faci...

Angela
1977
as Jean
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still want...

Helter Skelter
1976
as Charles Manson
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".

Cockfighter
1974
as Junior
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

The Visitors
1972
as Mike Nickerson
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson a...

The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
1972
as Billy the Kid
Formerly lost western starring Jack Elam

H: The Story of a Teen-Age Drug Addict
1951
as Bill
Bill is targeted by pot pushers who use him as their entry to the "good kids." Needing money because his mother is sick and his father is absent, he d...
Best Served Cold
N/A
as Himself
A feature length cinema documentary on how THE FARMER (1977) became the most-requested cult film of the new millennium, and it's a crazy tale that inv...