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John Saxon
John Saxon (born August 5, 1935) is an American actor.
Saxon, an Italian American, was born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Anna (née Protettore) and Antonio Orrico, a dock worker. He attended New Utrecht High School and studied acting with famous acting coach Stella Adler and...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia,...
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Black Christmas
Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian horror film, directed by Bob Clark, which has a very large cult following. It was written by A. Roy Moore, and based largely on a series of real-life murders in Montreal, Quebec, around Christmas time. Black...
Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon (Chinese: 龍爭虎鬥) aka. The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a 1973 American martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse; starring martial artists Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly, as well as actor John Saxon. It is the last...
Tenebrae
Tenebrae (also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, and Daria Nicolodi. After having experimented with two exercises in pure supernatural horror...
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 adventure and romance film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack. It was the third time Redford and Fonda had starred together in a film, having previously teamed on The Chase (1966)...
Mitchell
Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective, released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in the USA on September 10, 1975.
Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors...
Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980. The film, intended as a "Magnificent Seven in outer space," is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western remake of...
Fast Company
Fast Company is a 1979 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It was written by Phil Savath, Courtney Smith, Alan Treen and Cronenberg, and stars William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings and Nicholas Campbell. The film was primarily filmed...
Napoli violenta
Napoli violenta (English title: Violent Naples) is a poliziotteschi film directed by the Italian crime film specialist Umberto Lenzi in 1976. It was released on VHS in the US under the title Violent Protection.
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is...
The Appaloosa
The Appaloosa (a.k.a.: "Southwest to Sonora") is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting...
Planet Earth
Planet Earth was a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and starred John Saxon as Dylan...
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Strange New World
Strange New World was a TV pilot based on concepts envisioned by Gene Roddenberry which first aired on March 23, 1975. It starred John Saxon as Captain Anthony Vico (PAX team leader), Kathleen Miller as Dr. Allison Crowley (team navigator and...
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Desire
Desire is a 1982 Filipino- American film directed by Eddie Romero and starred John Saxon , Judith Chapman and Tetchie Agbayani.
Hellmaster
Hellmaster is a 1992 American horror film. The film was written and directed by Douglas Shulze and is about a psychotic college professor who uses unsuspecting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into brutal...
Aftershock
A female alien comes to Earth thinking there's intelligent life. Instead she finds civilization has collapsed. Aided by two self-appointed martial arts weilding guardians she fends off Road Warrior-esque punks and an oppressive government. ...
Queen of Blood
Queen of Blood is a 1966 horror/science fiction film released by American International Pictures. It was released as part of a double bill with the AIP movie Blood Bath.
After aliens contact Earth via radio to inform humans of an impending visit,...
This Happy Feeling
This Happy Feeling is a 1958 film by Blake Edwards adapted from the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Edwards regretted Universal's eleventh hour decision of a name change, but the studio was hoping to trade off another pop hit by Debbie...
Running Scared
Running Scared is a 1980 action film directed by Paul Glickler and starring Ken Wahl, Judge Reinhold and introducing Annie McEnroe.
Taking place in 1961, two guys fresh out of the Army in Panama hitch a ride on a plane to Florida and are chased...
The Glove
The Glove (also known as The Glove: Lethal Terminator) is a 1979 action film directed by cult actor Ross Hagen and starring John Saxon. Saxon plays a bounty hunter who's given a large sum to track down a vicious ex-convict who has been murdering...
Beyond Evil
Beyond Evil is a 1980 horror film directed by Herb Freed and starring John Saxon. The plot involves a newlywed couple who move into a colonial mansion, only to find that it's inhabited by a murderous ghost.
The film is currently distributed by Troma...
Night Caller from Outer Space
Night Caller from Outer Space, also known as simply The Night Caller or Blood Beast from Outer Space, is a British 1965 science fiction film directed by John Gilling. It is based on Frank Crisp's novel The Night Callers.
American scientist Jack...
War Hunt
War Hunt is a 1962 war film starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford. The film was directed by Denis Sanders, produced by his brother, Terry Sanders for T-D Enterprises, and released by United Artists.
The movie features the film...
The Swiss Conspiracy
The Swiss Conspiracy is a 1976 action film starring David Janssen, Senta Berger and Elke Sommer. It was co-produced between Germany and the United States.
Plot Summary: When a Swiss bank finds that the confidentiality of some of its more vulnerable...
La ragazza che sapeva troppo
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Italian: La ragazza che sapeva troppo) is a 1963 Italian giallo film. Directed by Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, the film stars John Saxon as Dr. Marcello Bassi and Leticia Román as Nora Davis. The plot revolves around a...
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a 1994 horror metafilm written and directed by Wes Craven. Although the seventh installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, New Nightmare is not part of the series continuity, instead taking place in a real life...
Beverly Hills Cop III
Beverly Hills Cop III, or Cop III as it was promotionally known, is a 1994 action-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places and Coming to America. It is the third film in...
Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch is a 1985 movie starring Ryan O'Neal and directed by Richard Brooks. It was nominated for four Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, as well as contributing to O'Neal's later Razzie nomination for Worst Actor of the Decade. (Fittingly,...
