Anthony Steel

Anthony Steel was born on May 21, 1920 in UK. Anthony Steel's big-screen debut came with Saraband directed by Basil Dearden in 1948, strarring . Anthony Steel is known for The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game directed by Peter Duffell, Mike Gwilym stars as Sid Halley and Mick Ford as Chico Barnes. The upcoming new tvshow Anthony Steel plays is Jemima Shore Investigates - Season 1 which will be released on Jun 08, 1983.

Known primarily in Britain for his many "matinée idol" roles during the 1950s, Anthony Steel is perhaps best remembered in Hollywood and elsewhere as the erstwhile husband of Anita Ekberg.His career never really took off in Hollywood; at one point during his marriage to Ms. Ekberg, he was referred to as "Mr. Ekberg" - a slight that reflected his success (or lack of it) in movies following the eventual breakup of the marriage.Steel was born in London and was the son of an Indian army officer. He was educated at Cambridge and in World War II served as a Major in the Grenadier Guards Parachute Regiment and for a time served in the infant Special Air Service (S.A.S.) leaving in 1948.It wasn't until after the war he decided to pursue acting, starring in such adventure-charged films as Tonnerre sur Malte (1953) for the J. Arthur Rank studio. His career was at its pinnacle and he was lauded as one of Britain's biggest movie stars when he married Ekberg in 1956 and set out with her to break into Hollywood pictures. Finding Hollywood unsatisfactory and even hostile, he turned primarily to making some not-so-memorable European films in the '70s and '80s - including Histoire d'O (1975) (The Story of O)