Acting
Steven Berkoff
Born 1937-08-03
Stepney, East London, England
Department: Acting
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 a screen actor, he is known for his performances in villainous roles, including the portrayals of General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Lt. Col. Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Adolf Hitler in War and Remembrance (1988–89).
Known For
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A Clockwork Orange
1971
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Vikings
2013
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
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The Tourist
2010
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Beverly Hills Cop
1984
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Doctor Who
2005
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
1985
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RED 2
2013
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Barry Lyndon
1975
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Octopussy
1983
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (177 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Desperate Journey | Raphael | Movie | 2025 |
 | From Roger Moore with Love | Self | Movie | 2024 |
 | The Performance | Sam | Movie | 2024 |
 | Bad Seed | Doctor Ainsley (voice) | Movie | 2024 |
 | The Can | Mason | Movie | 2024 |
 | Hamlet | Polonius | Movie | 2024 |
 | The Phantom Warrior | Hades | Movie | 2024 |
 | Young, Sexy & Dead | Claudio Vestiquez | Movie | 2023 |
 | Titanium White | Father Tornatore | Movie | 2022 |
 | Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher | Walter | Movie | 2022 |
 | Remembers… | Self | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Exorcist Vengeance | Bishop Canelo | Movie | 2022 |
 | Alice, Through the Looking | Executive Producer | Movie | 2021 |
 | Creation Stories | Aleister Crowley | Movie | 2021 |
 | Righteous Villains | Grandfather | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Secret Love Life of Ophelia | Writer | Movie | 2020 |
 | L'amore segreto di Ofelia | Author | Movie | 2020 |
 | Ernie | Arthur | Movie | 2020 |
 | L'énigme quantique d'Einstein | narrateur | Movie | 2020 |
 | Einstein's Quantum Riddle | Narrator | TV Series | 2020 |
 | The Last Faust | Dr. Goodfellow | Movie | 2019 |
 | Red Devil | Lazarus | Movie | 2019 |
 | Brighton | Author | Movie | 2019 |
 | Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart | Edmund | Movie | 2019 |
| Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart | Screenplay | Movie | 2019 |
 | Point of No Return | Evans | Movie | 2018 |
 | Meeting Jim | Self | Movie | 2018 |
 | Blitzed: Nazis on Drugs | Host | Movie | 2018 |
 | Fanged Up | Governor Payne | Movie | 2017 |
 | Lore | Dr. Kristoff Brehovy | TV Series | 2017 |
 | London Heist | Alfie | Movie | 2017 |
 | Transhuman | Til | Movie | 2017 |
 | Barbarians Rising | Augustus | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Manhattan Night | Hobbs | Movie | 2016 |
 | Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II | Dr. Flint | Movie | 2015 |
 | North v South | Vic Clarke | Movie | 2015 |
 | 7 Cases | Lawson | Movie | 2015 |
 | We Still Kill the Old Way | Charlie Archer | Movie | 2014 |
 | Katherine of Alexandria | Liberius | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Boy with a Camera for a Face | Narrator | Movie | 2013 |
 | Witches of East End | King Nikolaus | TV Series | 2013 |
 | Muse of Fire | Self | Movie | 2013 |
 | RED 2 | Cobb | Movie | 2013 |
 | Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian | Friend | Movie | 2013 |
 | Vikings | King Olaf the Stout | TV Series | 2013 |
 | G.B.H. | Chief Constable | Movie | 2012 |
 | Strippers vs. Werewolves | Flett | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women | Self | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Dirch Frode | Movie | 2011 |
 | Big Fat Gypsy Gangster | Guru Shah | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Borgias | Girolamo Savonarola | TV Series | 2011 |
 | Metamorphosis | Writer | Movie | 2010 |
| Metamorphosis | Director | Movie | 2010 |
| Metamorphosis | Set Designer | Movie | 2010 |
| Metamorphosis | Music | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Tourist | Reginald Shaw | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Madness of Peter Howson | Self | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Road to Coronation Street | Sidney Bernstein | Movie | 2010 |
 | Dead Cert | Kenneth Mason | Movie | 2010 |
 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Rapture | The Controller | Movie | 2010 |
 | Perfect Life | The Elder | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Big I Am | The MC | Movie | 2010 |
 | Pinter's Progress | Self | Movie | 2009 |
 | At World's End | Jack Pudovski | Movie | 2009 |
 | 44 Inch Chest | Tippi Gordon | Movie | 2009 |
| Shakespeare’s Villains | Himself, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, Juliet, CAsio | Movie | 2009 | |
| Shakespeare’s Villains | Writer | Movie | 2009 | |
 | The 60s: The Beatles Decade | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Watch Your Own Heart Attack | Performer | Movie | 2008 |
 | Bear Hunting | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2008 |
 | Das jüngste Gericht | Conrad | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Say It in Russian | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2007 |
 | The 10th Man | 'Red' Jack Weinbaum | Movie | 2006 |
 | Pu-239 | Starkov | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Flying Scotsman | Ernst Hagemann | Movie | 2006 |
 | Hotel Babylon | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2006 |
| Hotel Babylon | Mr. Wiltshire | TV Series | 2006 |
 | Penguins of the Antarctic | Narrator | Movie | 2006 |
 | Quails Quest: Its a Boy! | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2005 |
 | Forest of the Gods | Commandant Hoppe | Movie | 2005 |
 | Shadow of the Sword | Inquisitor | Movie | 2005 |
 | Doctor Who | Shakri | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Action Man: X Missions The Movie | Dr. X (voice) | Movie | 2005 |
 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mr. Eccles | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Brides | Karabulat | Movie | 2004 |
 | Action Man: Robot ATAK | Dr. X (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Head in the Clouds | Charles Bessé | Movie | 2004 |
 | Charlie | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2004 |
| Bokshu - The Myth | Professor Metcalf | Movie | 2003 | |
 | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World | John Roebling | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Headrush | Wuj | Movie | 2003 |
 | Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | Stilgar | TV Series | 2003 |
 | 9 Dead Gay Guys | Jeff | Movie | 2002 |
 | Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale | Meisling | TV Series | 2002 |
 | Beginner's Luck | Magic Bob | Movie | 2002 |
 | Steal | Surtayne | Movie | 2002 |
 | Attila | King Rua | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Attila | King Rua | Movie | 2001 |
 | Frank Herbert's Dune | Стилгар | TV Series | 2000 |
 | In the Beginning | Potiphar | TV Series | 2000 |
| Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2000 | |
 | Inside 'Octopussy' | Self | Movie | 2000 |
 | Rancid Aluminium | Mr Kant | Movie | 2000 |
| East | Director | Movie | 1999 | |
 | Expelling the Demon | Man / Tongue | Movie | 1999 |
 | Legionnaire | Sgt. Steinkampf | Movie | 1998 |
 | Another 9 1/2 Weeks | Vittorio DaSilva | Movie | 1997 |
 | Brass Eye | Self | TV Series | 1997 |
 | La Femme Nikita | Charles Sand/Carlo Giraldi | TV Series | 1997 |
 | Coriolanus | Coriolanus | Movie | 1997 |
| Coriolanus | Director | Movie | 1997 |
 | Fair Game | Colonel Ilya Kazak | Movie | 1995 |
 | Space Precinct | Dr. Paul Jorry | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Decadence | Steve / Les / Helen's Couturier | Movie | 1994 |
| Decadence | Screenplay | Movie | 1994 |
| Decadence | Director | Movie | 1994 |
| The Big Story | Self - George Cornell (archive footage) | TV Series | 1993 | |
 | Flynn | Klaus Reicher | Movie | 1993 |
 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Hagath | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Intruders | Addison Leach | TV Series | 1992 |
 | Oscar Wilde's Salome | Herod | Movie | 1992 |
| Oscar Wilde's Salome | Director | Movie | 1992 |
| Oscar Wilde's Salome | Writer | Movie | 1992 |
 | Silent Night | Harry | Movie | 1990 |
 | A Season of Giants | Girolamo Savonarola | Movie | 1990 |
 | The Krays | George Cornell | Movie | 1990 |
 | Metamorphosis | Mr. Samsa | Movie | 1989 |
| Metamorphosis | Writer | Movie | 1989 |
 | Streets of Yesterday | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1989 |
 | War and Remembrance | Adolf Hitler | TV Series | 1988 |
 | Prisoner of Rio | Jack McFarland | Movie | 1988 |
 | Under the Cherry Moon | Mr. Sharon | Movie | 1986 |
 | Absolute Beginners | The Fanatic | Movie | 1986 |
 | Sins | Karl Von Eiderfeld | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Revolution | Sgt. Jones | Movie | 1985 |
 | Underworld | Hugo Motherskille | Movie | 1985 |
 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Lt. Col. Podovsky | Movie | 1985 |
 | Beverly Hills Cop | Victor Maitland | Movie | 1984 |
 | Natural World | Narrator | TV Series | 1983 |
 | Octopussy | Orlov | Movie | 1983 |
| Riverside | Self | TV Series | 1982 | |
 | Outland | Sagan | Movie | 1981 |
 | Beloved Enemy | Kozlov | Movie | 1981 |
 | McVicar | Ronnie Harrison | Movie | 1980 |
 | The Professionals | Krasnov | TV Series | 1977 |
 | Joseph Andrews | Greasy Fellow | Movie | 1977 |
 | Barry Lyndon | Lord Ludd | Movie | 1975 |
 | The Passenger | Stephen | Movie | 1975 |
 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Pankratov | Movie | 1971 |
 | A Clockwork Orange | Det. Const. Tom | Movie | 1971 |
 | Play for Today | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1970 |
 | UFO | Capt. Steve Minto | TV Series | 1970 |
| UFO | Steve Minto | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Vendetta for The Saint | Bertoli | Movie | 1969 |
 | The Champions | Carlos | TV Series | 1968 |
 | The Expert | Mike Barratt | TV Series | 1968 |
 | Slave Girls | John | Movie | 1967 |
 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Bert | TV Series | 1965 |
| The Pistol | Private First Class Gutkowski | Movie | 1965 | |
 | The Wednesday Play | Councillor | TV Series | 1964 |
 | Hamlet at Elsinore | Lucianus | Movie | 1964 |
| Festival | Messenger | TV Series | 1963 | |
 | The Saint | Carl | TV Series | 1962 |
| Corrigan Blake | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1962 | |
 | Konga | Student on Field Trip (uncredited) | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Devil's Disciple | British Corporal | Movie | 1959 |
 | The Captain's Table | (uncredited) | Movie | 1959 |
 | I Was Monty's Double | Minor Role (uncredited) | Movie | 1958 |
 | Dixon of Dock Green | Dave Banks | TV Series | 1955 |
 | Nameless | Dr. Bymmock | Movie | — |
 | The Awakening | Henry | Movie | — |
 | Kristallnacht | Rabbi Goldstein | Movie | — |
| My Life As Roger Moore | Self | Movie | — | |
| The Awakening 2 | Henry | Movie | — | |
| The Sacrifice | Self / Appearance | Movie | — | |
| Oedipus | Director | Movie | — |