Anthony Steel

1918–2001 | British actor

Athletic leading man of the 1950s

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Born in London, Anthony Steel had a distinguished army career before being signed by J. Arthur Rank. He became a local star in the prisoner-of-war film, The Wooden Horse, which suited his conventional, square-jawed good looks and military manner, as did his later successes, Albert RN and Storm Over the Nile.

But Steel's career faltered after he married (1956–1959) the second of his three wives, the actress Anita Ekberg, and moved to Hollywood.

He returned to England, but was unable to regain his former popularity; he settled for a time in Rome to appear in forgettable European movies. His later English appearances were in sex films of minimal interest, and he was occasionally seen in TV dramas.

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Anthony Steel – The Wooden Dish. Front cover of Michael Hodgson’s biography of the British actor, released in 2016 — Anthony Steel – The Wooden Dish – Michael Hodgson biography | 2016

Anthony Steel (as Captain Harry Wilding) in a photograph from Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) (5) — Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) photograph (5) | Anthony Steel

Anthony Steel (as Captain Harry Wilding) and Patricia Roc (as Anne Wilding) in a photograph from Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) (4) — Something Money Can’t Buy (1952) photograph (4) | Anthony Steel

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Born

Anthony Steel was born (as Anthony Maitland Steel) in London on 21^st May, 1918.
Died

Anthony Steel died in London on 21^st March, 2001, aged 82.

Watch Anthony Steel on British television

- Massacre in Rome (1973)
- Monday at 10.55pm on Movies4Men
- 1^st September at 10.55pm on Movies4Men
- In 1944, after partisans blow up a detachment of SS troops in a Rome street, a German colonel makes an ineffectual attempt to resist an order to shoot 330 Italians in retaliation.
- Albert, RN (1953)
- Tuesday at 12.15pm on Talking Pictures
- Prisoners of war construct a lifelike dummy to cover the absence of escaping prisoners.
- Passage Home (1955)
- Tuesday at 5pm on Talking Pictures
- In 1931, tensions run high on a merchant ship when the captain accepts an attractive girl as passenger from South America.
- Storm Over the Nile (1955)
- 30^th August at 6.45pm on Movies4Men
- 30^th August at 7.45pm on Movies4Men
- During the Sudan campaign of the 1890s, a stay-at-home receives four white feathers as a symbol of cowardice; but he goes undercover, becomes a hero, and rescues his best friend. Colour remake of the 1929 version.