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Steven Berkoff

Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff
Born: Aug 03, 1937 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Science Fiction
Career Highlights: Rambo: First Blood Part II, McVicar, The Flying Scotsman
First Major Screen Credit: McVicar (1980)
19 Videos for Steven Berkoff
Shadow of the Sword (2005) Another 9 1/2 Weeks (1997) Octopussy (1983)
Head in the Clouds (2004) Fair Game (1995) Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
9 Dead Gay Guys (2003) The Krays (1990) Outland (1981)
Children of Dune (2003) Absolute Beginners (1986) The Passenger (1975)
In the Beginning (2000) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Rancid Aluminum (2000) Revolution (1985) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Legionnaire (1999)
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Biography:

Trained in drama at Ecole Jacques LeCoq and Britain's Webber-Douglas Academy, actor Steven Berkoff made his London stage bow in a 1959 staging of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Shortly thereafter, Berkoff formed the London Theatre Group, famed for its risk-taking, experimental theatrical pieces.

As a playwright, Berkoff displayed a fondness bordering on obsession with Franz Kafka: among his Theatre Group offerings were such Kafka adaptations as The Trial and Metamorphosis. He has also written such original plays as East, and has expressed his life-and-work philosophies in his books I Am Hamlet (a 1989 celebration of his favorite stage role) and Overview (1994).

In films from the 1970's, Berkoff is often as not seen as a villain: A Clockwork Orange, Octopussy, Rambo II. Most filmgoers will remember Berkoff as the despicable white-collar miscreant Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), while TV fans will recall him as Hitler in the miniseries War and Remembrance.

In 1994, Steven Berkoff wrote, directed and acted in the aptly titled film Decadence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.