Steven Berkoff

Movie Actor

Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, England, United Kingdom on August 3rd, 1937 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 86, Steven Berkoff biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
August 3, 1937
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Stepney, England, United Kingdom
Age
86 years old
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Actor, Author, Film Actor, Film Director, Playwright, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Theater Director, Writer
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Education
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
Steven Berkoff Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Alison Minto ​(m. 1970)​ (divorced), Shelley Lee ​(m. 1976)​ (divorced)
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2
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Steven Berkoff Career

Career

Berkoff began his theatre training at Her Majesty's Theatre in Barrow-in-Furness, about two months ago, in June and July 1962.

Berkoff, as well as an actor, is a well-known playwright and theatre producer. Franz Kafka's plays in the Penal Colony (1969) and The Trial (1971). He wrote a series of verse plays, including East (1975), Greek (1980), and Decadence (1981), followed by West (1983) (later adapted and broadcast at Limehouse Studios in 1983) sunk the Belgrano. (1986), Massage (1997)), Ophelia's Private Lives, 2001).

Berkoff described Sink the Belgrano!

"And by my modest means, one of the finest things I've ever done"

Berkoff's dramatic style is described as "In-yer-face theatre," according to drama critic Aleks Sierz.

Berkoff produced an interpretation of Salome by Oscar Wilde in 1988, but it was in slow motion at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Berkoff revived the performance at the Lyttelton Auditorium in November 1989 for his first directorial work at the Royal National Theatre in the United Kingdom. Shakespeare's Villains premiered at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1998 and was nominated for the Society of London Theatre Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.

Berkoff said in a 2010 interview with guest presenter Emily Maitlis on The Andrew Marr Show that he found it "flattering" to portray evil characters, emphasizing that the best actors in all roles were in villainous roles. Berkoff revived a previously performed one-man performance at Hammersmith Riverside Studios titled One Man. It consisted of two monologues; the first was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe's second book titled Dog, which was a parody of a loud-mouthed football fan and his dog. Berkoff's first verse performance since Decadence in 1981 was produced at the Sinden Theatre in Tenterden, Kent. Harvey Weinstein's latest one-act play tells the tale of him.

Berkoff has portrayed villains such as Soviet General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), the corrupt art dealer Victor Maitland of Beverly Hills Cop (1984), and gangster George Cornell in The Krays (1990). Berkoff has said that he accepts Hollywood only to pay his theater company, and that he dislikes several of the films in which he has appeared as lacking artistic merit.

Berkoff played both a police officer and a gambler aristocrat in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975). Joseph Andrews (1979), Prehistoric Women (1967), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Prehistoric Women (1977), Outland (1981), Prince of Rio (1985), Empire of War (1990), and Legionnaire (1999).

Berkoff was the main character voice in Expelling the Demon (1999), a short animation with music by Nick Cave. At the KROK International Animated Film Festival, it was named Best Debut at the Best Debut category. In the 2008 film The Cottage, he appears as the comedian. Berkoff appeared in the 2010 British gangster film "The MC" and in the same year, portrayed the villain in The Tourist. In David Fincher's 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Berkoff portrayed Dirch Frode, prosecutor to Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Moving Target, another 2011 award. He appeared in Decline of an Empire (2014) as Liberius.

He appeared in and directed the film version of his verse play Decadence in 1994. Joan Collins, a co-star on this film in Luxembourg, co-stars.

Berkoff appeared in episodes of The Avengers and UFO episodes "The Cat with Ten Lives" and "Destruction" in 1970. Hagath appears in the episode "Business as Usual" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Children of Dune; Stilgar's Mr. Wiltshire appears in one episode of Hotel Babylon; and Adolf Hitler in "By the Pricking of My Thumbs," an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple; and Adolf Hitler in the mini-series War and Remembrance. In 1998, he made a guest appearance in La Femme Nikita (in the episode "In Between"). In the New Tricks episode "Bank Robbery," he played celebrity/criminal Ray Cook in 2006.

In 2010, Berkoff portrayed former Granada Television chairman Sidney Bernstein in BBC Four's drama, The Road to Coronation Street. Girolamo Savonarola, a legendary Florentine preacher, has appeared in two separate television productions: the 1990 TV film A Season of Giants and the 2011 film The Borgias. Berkoff appears as himself in the "Science" segment of the British current affairs magazine "1996), warning of the dangers of the fictional environmental disaster "Heavy Electricity." Berkoff appeared in "The Power of Three" by Doctor Who in September 2012.

Berkoff appeared in the second season of Lifetime's 'Bees of East End as King Nikolaus, the patriarch of the Beauchamp family.

Mr. Klackov, a "terrifying" caretaker with a Eastern European accent "who makes reporting Dan's mistakes even more difficult" as his work as a schoolteacher is in jeopardy in 2016.

Berkoff appeared in a BBC Radio 2 concert version of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret in 1996. He was the voice-over on the N-Trance album "The Mind of the Machine," which took first place at No. 113. In August 1997, he ranked 15 in the UK Singles Chart. He appeared in the first sequence of Sky Sports' coverage of the 2007 Heineken Cup Final, modeled on a Al Pacino speech in the film Any Given Sunday (1999).

In Killzone, Berkoff portrays General Lente, the Helghan Third Army's commander. As a General Flying Fox, he does motion capture and voice for the PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword.

"A sort of Philip Roth-like romp through a libidinous actor's sex life" in Sod the Bitches, Berkoff's 2015 book Sod the Bitches has been described as "a sort of Philip Roth-like romp through a sex romp."

His 2014 memoir Bad Guy!

A Hollywood turkey's journal chronicles his time as a blockbuster at a Hollywood blockbuster.

In August 2008, Berkoff appeared in the British Heart Foundation's two-minute public service advertisement Watch Your Own Heart Attack, which was broadcast on ITV. "To Infinity and Beyond" (2010) and "The Power of the Placebo" (2014) were two episodes of BBC Two Horizon's "To Infinity and Beyond" (2010).

He is a patron of Brighton's Nightingale Theatre, a fringe theatre venue.

"Steven Berkoff, one of Britain's finest contemporary dramatists and the ensuing media attention, is a phenomenon in his own right," Annette Pankratz's 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance by Robert Cross. Pankratz further claims that Cross "focuses on Berkoff's theatre of self-performance, i.e. the intersections between Berkoff, the public domain, and Berkoff, the artist.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, February 8, 2024
London is one of the world's largest cities and is so familiar to, well, just about everybody. Despite this, only a few people are aware of its secrets and hidden treasures. In the enthralling book I Never Knew That About London, author Christopher Winn lifts the veil. [The book] reveals the unearthed gems of legends, firsts, inventions, trips, and birthplaces that shaped the city's colorful, sometimes turbulent past.'

Steven Berkoff: I gave up film roles for the theatre, but now I never go - it's too expensive

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 12, 2023
In the 1980s, actor Steven Berkoff earned just £20,000 for his villainous role as General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy. He realized his heart was in theatre and left Hollywood after being cast for a role in Rambo by Sylvester Stallone. Now, the 86-year-old says Donna Ferguson that the most expensive thing he owns is a £40,000 painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson. He lives in the East End of London, where he grew up in a three-bed apartment he purchased in 1985.

How other artists have retaliated after a German critic is 'attacked by dog faeces by director's

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 14, 2023
A German writer shared today how she was left in utter shock after a scandalous ballet director allegedly smeared his dog Gustav's faeces over her face after she described one of his performances as "boring" and "disjointed." Wiebke Hüster, 57, a journalist, said Marco Goecke, the opera house's ballet company's director, approached her during the interval of his performance on Saturday night and 'blocked her way' before accusing her of'writing poorly.' Goecke, 50, recovered a bag of dog faeces, who had been freshly made by his Dachshund Gustav just minutes before, removed the excrement from her face in front of'shocked' onlookers, according to Hüster, a dance critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). However, Hüster's occurrence isn't the first time an artist or their relative has come out at a critic. Here's how other creatives have retaliated on their critics, from a writer savaged in a £16,000 ad to Jeanette Winterson turning up on reviewers' doorsteps.