Steve Railsback
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-11-16
- Place of birth:
- Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography
Steve Railsback (born November 16, 1945, in Dallas, Texas) is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He is best known for his performances in the films The Stunt Man and Lifeforce, and his portrayal of Charles Manson in the 1976 television mini-series Helter Skelter. Railsback was a student of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and in the late 1960s and early 1970s spent 10 years working in theatre in New York City. He once said that he found Strasberg extremely difficult to work with. He made his film debut in The Visitors, directed by Elia Kazan. He portrayed two notorious murderers, appearing as Charles Manson in the 1976 television miniseries Helter Skelter and as Ed Gein in the 2000 film In the Light of the Moon. He also served as executive producer of the latter film. Other notable roles include the part of Cameron in The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole, the astronaut Tom Carlsen in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, Duane Barry in two episodes of The X-Files, and Joseph Welch in the pilot episode of Supernatural. In 2008, he appeared in the science fiction/horror movie film Plaguers.
Known For
Filmography
Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades
Unspeakable: Beyond The Wall of Sleep
Night Caller
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Gone Are the Days
Infiltrators
Decker
Wild in Blue
Femme Fatales
Once Fallen
Plaguers
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Follow the Prophet
Ready or Not
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
The Mentalist
Not Quite Hollywood
King of the Lost World
Supernatural
The Devil's Rejects
Neo Ned
Intermedio
UnConventional
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
The Box
Slash
Storytelling
Zigs
Ed Gein
The Sinister Saga of Making The Stunt Man
Family Law
Me and Will
Made Men
Charmed
Disturbing Behavior
Termination Man
Pressure Point
The Visitor
The Practice
Vanishing Point
Stranger in the House
Street Corner Justice
Barb Wire
Final Mission
Separated by Murder
Save Me
Private Wars
The X-Files
Calendar Girl
In the Line of Fire
Bonds of Love
Sunstroke
Quake
Forever
Alligator 2: The Mutation
Scissors
Good Cops, Bad Cops
The Assassin
The Cross of Iberia
The Forgotten
Deadly Intent
Blue Monkey
Scenes from the Goldmine
Nukie
Distortions
The Survivalist
The Wind
Armed and Dangerous
Spearfield's Daughter
The Twilight Zone
Lifeforce
The Making Of Lifeforce
Torchlight
The Golden Seal
Great Transport
The Great Transport
Trick or Treats
Deadly Games
Turkey Shoot
The Stunt Man
From Here to Eternity
Angela
Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter
Cockfighter
The Visitors
The Last Escape of Billy the Kid
H: The Story of a Teen-Age Drug Addict