Steven Berkoff

ActorWriterDirectorSoundArt Aug 3 (age 88) Stepney, East London, England 1955–2025 (70 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

A Clockwork Orange

Det. Const. Tom

Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Dirch Frode

Film

Barry Lyndon

Lord Ludd

Film

Beverly Hills Cop

Victor Maitland

Film

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Lt. Col. Podovsky

Film

RED 2

Cobb

Film

The Tourist

Reginald Shaw

Film

Octopussy

Orlov

Filmography

Acting (151)

Movies (114)

Desperate Journey

2025

as Raphael

7.0

From Roger Moore with Love

as Self

The Performance

as Sam

The Phantom Warrior

as Hades

The Can

as Mason

Hamlet

2024

as Polonius

7.6

Bad Seed

2024

as Doctor Ainsley (voice)

Young, Sexy & Dead

2023

as Claudio Vestiquez

Exorcist Vengeance

2022

as Bishop Canelo

4.0

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher

2022

as Walter

6.2

Titanium White

2022

as Father Tornatore

Creation Stories

2021

as Aleister Crowley

5.9

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

as Executive Producer

Ernie

2020

as Arthur

Righteous Villains

2020

as Grandfather

2.7

L'énigme quantique d'Einstein

2020

as narrateur

7.0

Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart

2019

as Edmund

The Last Faust

as Dr. Goodfellow

Red Devil

as Lazarus

Point of No Return

as Evans

Blitzed: Nazis on Drugs

as Host

Meeting Jim

as Self

Fanged Up

as Governor Payne

Transhuman

as Til

London Heist

as Alfie

Manhattan Night

as Hobbs

Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II

as Dr. Flint

North v South

as Vic Clarke

7 Cases

as Lawson

We Still Kill the Old Way

2014

as Charlie Archer

6.0

Katherine of Alexandria

as Liberius

RED 2

as Cobb

Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian

as Friend

Muse of Fire

as Self

The Boy with a Camera for a Face

2013

as Narrator

6.9

Strippers vs. Werewolves

as Flett

G.B.H.

as Chief Constable

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women

2012

as Self

6.0

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

as Dirch Frode

7.4

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster

as Guru Shah

The Tourist

as Reginald Shaw

The Big I Am

as The MC

The Rapture

as The Controller

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Dead Cert

as Kenneth Mason

Perfect Life

as The Elder

The Road to Coronation Street

as Sidney Bernstein

44 Inch Chest

as Tippi Gordon

Shakespeare’s Villains

2009

as Himself, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, Juliet, CAsio

At World's End

as Jack Pudovski

Pinter's Progress

as Self

Bear Hunting

Watch Your Own Heart Attack

2008

as Performer

Say It in Russian

The Flying Scotsman

as Ernst Hagemann

Pu-239

as Starkov

The 10th Man

as 'Red' Jack Weinbaum

Penguins of the Antarctic

2006

as Narrator

Forest of the Gods

as Commandant Hoppe

Shadow of the Sword

as Inquisitor

Action Man: X Missions The Movie

2005

as Dr. X (voice)

5.3

Quails Quest: Its a Boy!

2005

3.5

Action Man: Robot ATAK

as Dr. X (voice)

Charlie

Brides

as Karabulat

Head in the Clouds

as Charles Bessé

Bokshu - The Myth

as Professor Metcalf

Headrush

as Wuj

Steal

as Surtayne

9 Dead Gay Guys

as Jeff

Beginner's Luck

as Magic Bob

Attila

as King Rua

Inside 'Octopussy'

as Self

Rancid Aluminium

as Mr Kant

Expelling the Demon

as Man / Tongue

Legionnaire

as Sgt. Steinkampf

Another 9 1/2 Weeks

as Vittorio DaSilva

Coriolanus

as Coriolanus

Fair Game

as Colonel Ilya Kazak

5.1

Decadence

1994

as Steve / Les / Helen's Couturier

Flynn

as Klaus Reicher

The Krays

as George Cornell

A Season of Giants

as Girolamo Savonarola

6.5

Silent Night

1990

as Harry

Streets of Yesterday

Prisoner of Rio

as Jack McFarland

Metamorphosis

as Mr. Samsa

Absolute Beginners

as The Fanatic

Under the Cherry Moon

1986

as Mr. Sharon

5.5

Rambo: First Blood Part II

as Lt. Col. Podovsky

Transmutations

as Hugo Motherskille

Revolution

as Sgt. Jones

Beverly Hills Cop

as Victor Maitland

Octopussy

as Orlov

Outland

as Sagan

Beloved Enemy

as Kozlov

McVicar

as Ronnie Harrison

Joseph Andrews

as Greasy Fellow

Barry Lyndon

as Lord Ludd

The Passenger

as Stephen

A Clockwork Orange

as Det. Const. Tom

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Pankratov

6.9

Vendetta for The Saint

1969

as Bertoli

6.9

The Pistol

1965

as Private First Class Gutkowski

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

as Lucianus

7.8

Konga

1961

as Student on Field Trip (uncredited)

The Devil's Disciple

as British Corporal

The Captain's Table

as (uncredited)

I Was Monty's Double

as Minor Role (uncredited)

6.9

The Awakening

as Henry

Kristallnacht

as Rabbi Goldstein

Nameless

as Dr. Bymmock

My Life As Roger Moore

as Self

The Awakening 2

as Henry

Television (37)

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Einstein's Quantum Riddle

as Narrator

Barbarians Rising

as Augustus

Vikings

as King Olaf the Stout

Witches of East End

as King Nikolaus

The Borgias

as Girolamo Savonarola

7.6

Das jüngste Gericht

2008

as Conrad

9.0

The 60s: The Beatles Decade

Hotel Babylon

Doctor Who

as Shakri

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Mr. Eccles

7.8

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

2003

as Stilgar

7.0

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

2003

6.7

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

as Meisling

Attila

as King Rua

In the Beginning

as Potiphar

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Jonathan Creek

as Herman Grole

Brass Eye

as Self

Space Precinct

as Dr. Paul Jorry

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993

as Hagath

7.9

The Big Story

1993

as Self - George Cornell (archive footage)

Intruders

as Addison Leach

War and Remembrance

as Adolf Hitler

Sins

as Karl Von Eiderfeld

Natural World

as Narrator

Riverside

as Self

The Professionals

as Krasnov

Play for Today

UFO

as Steve Minto

The Champions

as Carlos

The Expert

as Mike Barratt

The Wednesday Play

as Councillor

Festival

as Messenger

The Saint

as Carl

Corrigan Blake

Dixon of Dock Green

as Dave Banks

Crew (15)

Movies (15)

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia

2020

Writer

L'amore segreto di Ofelia

2020

Author

Brighton

2019

Author

5.1

Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart

2019

Screenplay

Metamorphosis

Director

Metamorphosis

Music

Metamorphosis

Set Designer

Metamorphosis

Writer

Shakespeare’s Villains

2009

Writer

East

Director

Coriolanus

Director

Decadence

Director

Decadence

Screenplay

Metamorphosis

Writer

Oedipus

Director