Background
Steinbrunner grew up in Queens, New York, and attended Fordham University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree in sociology.
Steinbrunner grew up in Queens, New York, and attended Fordham University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree in sociology.
Fordham University.
While at Fordham, and for some years afterward, he was the host of a weekly radio program broadcast from the university station WFUV-FM, on which he presented interviews as well as occasional dramatitizations of Sherlock Holmes stories. Following his college years, he was employed at the local New York City television station WOR-television (later WWOR), becoming its film programming director He remained at the station until the mid-1980s, during which time he produced entertainment specials about James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.
Steinbrunner was well-known among Holmes aficionados, and mystery fans in general, as exceptionally knowledgeable in his field
Amongst Steinbrunner"s written works were the program notes to the American Film Institute"s festival "Sherlock Holmes on the Screen", presented in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1972.
He was a founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars’ scion society "The Priory Scholars of Fordham".