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John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico; August 5, 1935 – July 25, 2020) was an American actor and martial artist who worked on more than 200 projects during a span of 60 years. Saxon is known for his work in Westerns and horror movies, often playing police officers and detectives.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Saxon studied acting with Stella Adler before beginning his career as a contract actor for Universal Pictures, playing in such movies as Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) and Portrait in Black (1961). During the 1970s and 1980s, he established himself as a character actor, frequently portraying law enforcement officials in horror movies such as Black Christmas (1974), Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
In addition to his roles in horror movies, Saxon co-starred with Bruce Lee in the martial arts movie Enter the Dragon (1973), and has supporting roles in the westerns Death of a Gunfighter (1969) and Joe Kidd (1972), as well as the adventure thriller Raid on Entebbe (1977). In the 1990s, Saxon occasionally appeared in movies, with small roles in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996).
Saxon died of pneumonia in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on July 25, 2020.
Most Popular John Saxon Trailers
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09 November 1984
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides.
19 January 1996
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious vampire clientele.
27 February 1987
During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger.
04 August 1959
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
27 July 1960
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
31 December 1965
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
08 March 2009
Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf.
03 November 2009
Documentary on the life and death of Bob Clark, a director of movies such as Christmas Story, Porky's and Black Christmas.
03 February 1977
A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death.
17 May 2009
More than just a biography, this film explores Bruce Lee's global impact to see how he has influenced all areas of popular culture including fitness, cinema, music, sport, dance, video games and philosophy.
17 August 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
15 September 1966
A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.
01 January 1990
The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem.
01 January 1991
An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood.
01 May 1962
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
08 May 1969
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern.
14 August 1958
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season.
01 December 1979
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel.
14 April 1993
A Los Angeles cop tracks a serial killer who leaves a broken baby doll at the site of each grisly crime.
11 May 1989
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment.
14 March 1967
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
09 March 1976
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal.
15 June 1962
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down.
01 November 1978
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere.
23 April 1974
The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent.
28 October 1991
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s.
24 May 1994
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World.
08 September 1999
A documentary about the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
30 December 1976
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
28 October 1982
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
27 December 1994
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
26 August 1970
A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered.
07 August 1976
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord.
13 October 1994
Cast and crew from A Nightmare on Elm Street are terrorized by Freddy Krueger and his razor-fingered glove as he crosses over into the real world.
10 November 1970
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
26 December 1976
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
29 December 1993
Two cops go undercover to infiltrate a violent drug ring, and are in for a shock when they find out who's running it.
19 March 2002
Retro century docu-drama for horror anthologies in mind.
01 December 1958
A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
30 March 2012
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism.
21 April 1995
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son.
27 December 1956
A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
13 December 1966
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
05 November 1960
Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay.
05 December 2006
An interview with the cast and crew of the cult horror film Black Christmas (1974), hosted by John Saxon, who starred in the film.
24 April 2001
In this action-packed thriller, ex-cop Joey Randall (Richard Grieco) suddenly finds his affair with Sharon Moreno (Priscilla Barnes), wife of Police Chief George Moreno (John Saxon), has turned deadly.
05 October 1990
An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.
27 November 1976
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!
01 January 2010
When '80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
20 July 1994
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie.
10 March 1958
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.
01 January 1968
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time.
23 October 2001
When Jake, a security guard in a small hotel, inadvertently helps out a beautiful burglar, he becomes a primary suspect and is quickly fired.
01 January 1998
Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this authoritative and informative programme uses rarely seen archive footage to trace both the history of martial arts and the phenomenal impact Bruce Lee had on this culture.
31 January 1973
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
01 March 1961
Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.
01 December 1988
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
03 December 2002
A featurette hosted by Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin, who revisit the original house from the movie 'Black Christmas'.
04 May 2010
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
