Biography
Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style known as "Berkovian theatre", which combines elements of physical theatre, total theatre and expressionism. His work has sometimes been viewed as an example of in-yer-face theatre, due to the intense presentation and taboo-breaking material in a number of his plays. As...
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Complete Filmography

From Roger Moore with Love
2024
as Self
Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home...

The Performance
2024
as Sam
Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up:...

Bad Seed
2024
as Doctor Ainsley (voice)
After a devastating loss, a troubled young woman struggles to piece together her fractured memory and escape intervention by the family doctor.

The Can
2024
as Mason
The Can, a steel shipping container housing a site office, stands alone in an isolated scrapyard. Shut inside is Joe, an unstable, disillusioned secur...

Hamlet
2024
as Polonius
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller...

The Phantom Warrior
2024
as Hades
The origin story of the masked vigilante, Nemesis Knight. A new breed of superhero for a changing world. From young feral orphan to deadly crusader, b...

Young, Sexy & Dead
2023
as Claudio Vestiquez
A major fashion campaign goes horribly wrong when its star fatally overdoses on diet pills. But she is a good-looking corpse and there are deadlines t...

Titanium White
2022
as Father Tornatore
Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to Porto Ercole by order of a professor to collect ma...

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
2022
as Walter
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.

Exorcist Vengeance
2022
as Bishop Canelo
When a prominent family is terrorized by a demonic force, a priest that the Vatican calls upon to do their dirty work has to root out the evil, soon r...

Alice, Through the Looking
2021
as Executive Producer
What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down ...

Creation Stories
2021
as Aleister Crowley
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtra...

Righteous Villains
2020
as Grandfather
A modern day tale of good vs evil, secret societies, sorcery and Satan.

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia
2020
Writer
The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia is one of the most tragic in all of Shakespeare’s plays, but so much of their burgeoning love affair is un...

L'amore segreto di Ofelia
2020
Author

Ernie
2020
as Arthur
Ernie is a vulnerable recluse who spends his life caring for his racist father and navigating a world in which he doesn't quite fit in to.

L'énigme quantique d'Einstein
2020
as narrateur

The Last Faust
2019
as Dr. Goodfellow
Prodigal scientist and technology entrepreneur, Dr Faust, seeks to emulate Gods ability to create life. He sells his soul to the devil in order to rea...

Red Devil
2019
as Lazarus
An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which ...

Brighton
2019
Author
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result ...

Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart
2019
as Edmund
Steven Berkoff's own feature length interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's original short story about a servant who plots to murder his master because of...

Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart
2019
Screenplay
Steven Berkoff's own feature length interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's original short story about a servant who plots to murder his master because of...

Point of No Return
2018
as Evans
Peter, a young aircraft engineer is deceived by his manager Jason into substituting faulty aircraft parts. When a part explodes killing a passenger, A...

Meeting Jim
2018
as Self
Meeting Jim is a feature length documentary about a journey back to the lifetime of Jim Haynes, an extraordinary 83-year-old man who grabbed with hear...

Blitzed: Nazis on Drugs
2018
as Host
The effect of Pervitin on Nazi Germany.

Fanged Up
2017
as Governor Payne
A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims

London Heist
2017
as Alfie
Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts hi...

Transhuman
2017
as Til
After a dangerous trip to Africa, investigative journalist Alex Black, returns home to discover her friend has gone missing. Suspicious of coincidence...

Manhattan Night
2016
as Hobbs
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. ...

Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II
2015
as Dr. Flint
On the 6th December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the three men have yet...

North v South
2015
as Vic Clarke
For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necess...

7 Cases
2015
as Lawson
Two retired bank robbers agree to one last job. A face from their past steals their proceeds and divides the cash into 7 Cases.... each one is left wi...

We Still Kill the Old Way
2014
as Charlie Archer
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.

Katherine of Alexandria
2014
as Liberius
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, ...

The Boy with a Camera for a Face
2013
as Narrator
The Boy with a Camera for a Face is satirical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, whose every moment is transformed by the fa...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

RED 2
2013
as Cobb
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian
2013
as Friend
Told by family and friends, with rare unseen archive, this documentary reflects on the career of Dave Allen, relative of poet Katharine Tynan, and a n...

G.B.H.
2012
as Chief Constable
Damien, a London copper has a past he's trying to forget. Before joining the force he ran with a football firm, getting involved in tear-ups up and do...

Strippers vs. Werewolves
2012
as Flett
Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
2012
as Self
Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the medium, and gender dynamics in Sweden.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Dirch Frode
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
2011
as Guru Shah
After sixteen years at Her Majesty's Pleasure, Britain's hardest man is released from prison, and into the care of a documentary film crew headed by a...

Metamorphosis
2010
Writer, Music, Set Designer
Steven Berkoff's iconic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novella, which tells the tale of a traveling salesman who is transformed into an insect, is brough...

The Tourist
2010
as Reginald Shaw
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

The Road to Coronation Street
2010
as Sidney Bernstein
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.

Dead Cert
2010
as Kenneth Mason
A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn ...

Drop Dead Gorgeous
2010
An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynth...

The Rapture
2010
as The Controller
Told through the eyes of Casper Harrison. The Rapture is a fast paced mystery thriller where good and evil collide in the quest to possess the most ho...

Perfect Life
2010
as The Elder
About college students that experience horrifying visions from the past while undergoing a fraternity initiation.

The Big I Am
2010
as The MC
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrativ...

Pinter's Progress
2009
as Self
A personal take on working with Harold Pinter via intimate conversations with actors, directors and writers who share their experiences of the man and...

At World's End
2009
as Jack Pudovski
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recl...

44 Inch Chest
2009
as Tippi Gordon
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Shakespeare’s Villains
2009
as Himself, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, Juliet, CAsio
An adaptation of Steven Berkoff’s one-act play of the same name.
Shakespeare’s Villains
2009
Writer
An adaptation of Steven Berkoff’s one-act play of the same name.

Bear Hunting
2008
Остросюжетный боевик, где переплетаються большие деньги и большая политика, любовь и предательство, жизнь и смерть. Олег Гринев по прозвищу Медведь (В...

Say It in Russian
2007
Jacqueline, a Paris society hostess (Faye Dunaway), introduces a fellow American, businessman Andrew Lamont (Steven Brand), to a beautiful young Russi...

The 10th Man
2006
as 'Red' Jack Weinbaum
Kidnapping and dirty tricks are the way of the street among the ageing Jewish community of London's East End.

Pu-239
2006
as Starkov
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and se...

The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Ernst Hagemann
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine part...

Penguins of the Antarctic
2006
as Narrator
Antarctica's penguins are some of the most endearing animals on earth, but behind the comical behaviour is a continual struggle to survive the deadly ...

Quails Quest: Its a Boy!
2005
Now known as the Quail's First Christmas. Identical, except for the title change on the cover. Imagine the "greatest story ever told" as seen from the...

Forest of the Gods
2005
as Commandant Hoppe
The story about one man - an artist and an intellectual - who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. 'The Professor' is a ma...

Shadow of the Sword
2005
as Inquisitor
Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them str...

Action Man: X Missions The Movie
2005
as Dr. X (voice)
Doctor X initiates a plan to transform innocent victims into an army of Toxic Troopers intent on destroying everything in their path. Can Action Man s...

Brides
2004
as Karabulat
A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as...

Action Man: Robot ATAK
2004
as Dr. X (voice)
Action Man and his team have to stop the combined forces of Dr. X and No-Face, who have unleashed a large number of X Robots on the world and framed A...

Head in the Clouds
2004
as Charles Bessé
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda d...

Charlie
2004
Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
Bokshu - The Myth
2003
as Professor Metcalf
Two anthropologists (Heather Prete, David Millbern) have a series of strange encounters in the Himalayas as they search for their missing professor (S...

9 Dead Gay Guys
2003
as Jeff
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offer...

Headrush
2003
as Wuj
Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a ...

Beginner's Luck
2002
as Magic Bob
Mark Feinman knows he’s going to be big in show business…it’s just a matter of time. In a flash of inspiration he decides to tour a Shakespeare play a...

Steal
2002
as Surtayne
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a...

Attila
2001
as King Rua
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Inside 'Octopussy'
2000
as Self
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.

Rancid Aluminium
2000
as Mr Kant
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is...
East
1999
Director
East is a 1975 verse play by Steven Berkoff, dealing with growing up and rites of passage in London's rough East End. The play was premiered at the Ed...

Expelling the Demon
1999
as Man / Tongue
The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue. Tongue ...

Legionnaire
1998
as Sgt. Steinkampf
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfrie...

Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1997
as Vittorio DaSilva
Despondent at losing his lover, a man wanders the streets of Paris and has an affair with her kinky friend.

Coriolanus
1997
as Coriolanus
"Set in the context of 1930s Fascism, Steven Berkoff’s reimagining of William Shakespeare’s final tragedy brings power to the masses as they turn agai...

Coriolanus
1997
Director
"Set in the context of 1930s Fascism, Steven Berkoff’s reimagining of William Shakespeare’s final tragedy brings power to the masses as they turn agai...

Fair Game
1995
as Colonel Ilya Kazak
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

Decadence
1994
as Steve / Les / Helen's Couturier
Two couples betray the decadence which lurks beneath the surface of high society: Steve, wealthy but ignorant, is engaged in a kinky relationship with...

Decadence
1994
Director, Screenplay
Two couples betray the decadence which lurks beneath the surface of high society: Steve, wealthy but ignorant, is engaged in a kinky relationship with...

Flynn
1993
as Klaus Reicher
A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.

Silent Night
1990
as Harry
Short TV play about a lonely man at Christmas.

A Season of Giants
1990
as Girolamo Savonarola
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpie...

The Krays
1990
as George Cornell
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and ...

Streets of Yesterday
1989
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Is...

Prisoner of Rio
1988
as Jack McFarland
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

Metamorphosis
1987
as Mr. Samsa
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one...

Metamorphosis
1987
Writer
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one...

Under the Cherry Moon
1986
as Mr. Sharon
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inhe...

Absolute Beginners
1986
as The Fanatic
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model C...

Revolution
1985
as Sgt. Jones
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Ser...

Transmutations
1985
as Hugo Motherskille
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating ...

Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
as Lt. Col. Podovsky
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of V...

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
as Victor Maitland
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, ...

Octopussy
1983
as Orlov
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a...

Outland
1981
as Sagan
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while invest...

Beloved Enemy
1981
as Kozlov
A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns t...

McVicar
1980
as Ronnie Harrison
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high secu...

Joseph Andrews
1977
as Greasy Fellow
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...

Barry Lyndon
1975
as Lord Ludd
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Ba...

The Passenger
1975
as Stephen
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story...

A Clockwork Orange
1971
as Det. Const. Tom
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of...

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Pankratov
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Vendetta for The Saint
1969
as Bertoli
Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian busine...
The Pistol
1965
as Private First Class Gutkowski
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hamlet at Elsinore
1964
as Lucianus
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplate...

Konga
1961
as Student on Field Trip (uncredited)
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He br...

The Devil's Disciple
1959
as British Corporal
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re...

I Was Monty's Double
1958
as Minor Role (uncredited)
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions befor...

Nameless
N/A
as Dr. Bymmock
Two lost souls become entwined as they each face their own past. One struggles to uncover his, the other to elude hers.

Desperate Journey
N/A
based on the true story of Freddie Knoller, a young man fleeing Vienna during the rise of Nazi Germany, set in 1940s Paris, unfolding against the vibr...

The Awakening
N/A
as Henry
The Awakening follows Jason and Rebecca as they uncover a conspiracy to control the world. Their investigation leads them into a maze of secrets and d...
Oedipus
N/A
Director
Steven Berkoff brings Sophocles’ tragedy to life in this vivid retelling of the condemned King and his battle with destiny. Captured live at the Notti...