John Saxon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, 1935-08-05

Died: 2020-07-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	It Should Happen to You	Boy Watching Argument in Park (uncredited)	69
2	1954	A Star Is Born	Movie Premiere Usher (uncredited)	71
3	1955	Running Wild	Vince Pomeroy	0
4	1956	Rock, Pretty Baby	Jimmy Daley	30
5	1956	The Unguarded Moment	Leonard Bennett	62
6	1958	Summer Love	Jimmy Daley	50
7	1958	This Happy Feeling	Bill Tremaine	38
8	1958	The Reluctant Debutante	David Parkson	68
9	1958	The Restless Years	Will Henderson	0
10	1959	Cry Tough	Miguel Antonio Enrico Francisco Estrada	58
11	1959	The Big Fisherman	Voldi	46
12	1960	The Unforgiven	Johnny Portugal	63
13	1960	Portrait in Black	Blake Richards	57
14	1960	The Plunderers	Rondo	58
15	1961	Posse from Hell	Seymour Kern	62
16	1962	War Hunt	Pvt. Raymond Endore	65
17	1962	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	Byron Grant	64
18	1962	Agostino	Renzo	61
19	1963	The Girl Who Knew Too Much	Dr. Marcello Bassi	70
20	1963	The Cardinal	Benny Rampell	65
21	1964	The Cavern	Joe Cramer	55
22	1965	The Ravagers	Capt. Kermit Dowling	60
23	1965	The Night Caller	Dr. Jack Costain	53
24	1966	Queen of Blood	Allan Brenner	53
25	1966	The Appaloosa	Chuy	62
26	1966	The Doomsday Flight	George Ducette	63
27	1967	Winchester '73	Dakin McAdam	62
28	1968	Western, Italian Style	Self	64
29	1968	For Singles Only	Bret Hendley	55
30	1968	One Dollar Too Many	Clay Watson	65
31	1969	Istanbul Express	Cheval	51
32	1969	Death of a Gunfighter	Lou Trinidad	64
33	1970	Company of Killers	Dave Poohler	40
34	1970	The Intruders	Billy Pye	45
35	1972	House Made of Dawn	Tosamah	0
36	1972	Joe Kidd	Luis Chama	64
37	1973	Snatched	Paul Maxvill	53
38	1973	Family Killer	Gaspare Ardizzone	54
39	1973	Mr. Kingstreet's War	Mr. Kingstreet	60
40	1973	Location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon	Self	0
41	1973	Enter the Dragon	Roper	74
42	1973	Linda	Jeff Braden	60
43	1974	Can Ellen Be Saved?	James Hallbeck	38
44	1974	Planet Earth	Dylan Hunt	59
45	1974	Black Christmas	Lt. Fuller	69
46	1975	Fight to the Death	Mariano Beltrán	35
47	1975	Crossfire	Dave Ambrose	0
48	1975	Strange New World	Capt. Anthony Vico	37
49	1975	Mitchell	Walter Deaney	32
50	1976	The Swiss Conspiracy	Robert Hayes	49
51	1976	Shadows in an Empty Room	Sgt. Ned Matthews	59
52	1976	Violent Naples	Francesco Capuano	65
53	1976	Mark Strikes Again	Altman	48
54	1976	A Special Cop in Action	Albertelli	63
55	1976	Raid on Entebbe	Maj. Gen. Benny Peled	60
56	1976	Cross Shot	Commissario Jacovella	61
57	1977	The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist	Frank Di Maggio	67
58	1977	Moonshine County Express	J.B. Johnson	49
59	1978	The Bees	John Norman	46
60	1978	The Immigrants	Alan Brocker	20
61	1978	Shalimar	Colonel Columbus	59
62	1979	Fast Company	Phil Adamson	51
63	1979	The Glove	Sam Kellog	49
64	1979	The Electric Horseman	Hunt Sears	61
65	1980	Beyond Evil	Larry Andrews	38
66	1980	Cannibal Apocalypse	Norman Hopper	56
67	1980	Blood Beach	Captain Pearson	49
68	1980	Battle Beyond the Stars	Sador	54
69	1980	Running Scared	Captain Munoz	43
70	1981	Golden Gate	Monty Sager	0
71	1982	Lo Scorpione a Due Code	Arthur Barnard	0
72	1982	Wrong Is Right	Homer Hubbard	55
73	1982	One Too Many	Sergio Puccini	0
74	1982	Rooster	Jerome Brademan	20
75	1982	Scorpion with Two Tails	Arthur Barnard	46
76	1982	Tenebre	Bullmer	68
77	1982	Desire	Joe Hale	0
78	1983	The Big Score	Davis	50
79	1983	Prisoners of the Lost Universe	Kleel	35
80	1984	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Lieutenant Thompson	73
81	1984	Solomon Northup's Odyssey	Epps	62
82	1985	Brothers-in-Law	Royal Cane	0
83	1985	Fever Pitch	Sports Editor	37
84	1986	Hands of Steel	Francis Turner	53
85	1987	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	Donald Thompson	67
86	1988	Stephen King's Monster Stories		50
87	1988	Zombie Death House	Colonel Gordon Burgess	43
88	1989	My Mom's a Werewolf	Harry Thropen	46
89	1989	Nightmare Beach	Strycher	54
90	1989	Criminal Act	Herb Tamplin	48
91	1990	The Best of the Martial Arts Films	Self - Host	87
92	1990	The Last Samurai	Haroun Al-Hakim	63
93	1990	The Final Alliance	Ghost	59
94	1990	Crossing the Line	Jack Kagan	53
95	1990	Blood Salvage	Clifford Evans	55
96	1990	Aftershock	Oliver Quinn	44
97	1991	The Arrival	Agent Miils	44
98	1991	Payoff	Rafael Concion	42
99	1991	Blackmail	Gene	36
100	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self (archive footage)	77
101	1992	Lucky Luke 2	The Man in Black (archive footage)	52
102	1992	Maximum Force	Captain Fuller	48
103	1992	Animal Instincts	Otto Van Horne	51
104	1992	Hellmaster	Professor Jones	46
105	1993	The Baby Doll Murders	John Maglia	30
106	1993	No Escape, No Return	James Mitchell	59
107	1994	Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon	Self	61
108	1994	Beverly Hills Cop III	Orrin Sanderson	59
109	1994	Killing Obsession	Dr. Sachs	31
110	1994	New Nightmare	John Saxon / Donald Thompson	64
111	1994	Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up	Charles Searage	55
112	1995	The Killers Within	Detective Lewis	0
113	1995	Jonathan of the Bears	Fred Goodwin	58
114	1995	Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities	Self	100
115	1996	From Dusk Till Dawn	FBI Agent Stanley Chase	70
116	1997	Lancelot: Guardian of Time	Wolvencroft	35
117	1998	The Path of the Dragon	Self	64
118	1998	Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist	Self (archive footage)	25
119	1998	Bruce Lee: In His Own Words	Self (archive footage)	78
120	1998	The Party Crashers	Mr. Foster	10
121	1998	The GREATEST : Bruce Lee	Comentador	77
122	1999	Bottom Feeders	Antonio DiPaolo Jr.	75
123	1999	Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On	Self (scenes Enter the Dragon) (archive footage)	80
124	1999	Joseph's Gift	Jacob Keller	0
125	1999	Welcome to Primetime	Self	0
126	2000	Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre	Self	59
127	2000	Living in Fear	Rev. Leo Hausman	38
128	2001	Final Payback	Police Chief George Moreno	35
129	2001	Night Class	Murphy	31
130	2002	'Cannibal Apocalypse' Redux	Sarge	0
131	2002	Outta Time	Darabont	15
132	2002	Black Christmas Revisited		50
133	2003	Pitcher and the Pin-Up	Michael Curtis	62
134	2004	Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off	Self	68
135	2004	Blood and Steel: The Making of 'Enter the Dragon'	Self	86
136	2006	Stanley's Girlfriend	Leo	80
137	2006	The Craving Heart	Richard Tom	40
138	2006	Trapped Ashes	Leo (segment "Stanley's Girlfriend")	50
139	2006	Pelts	Jeb 'Pa' Jameson	56
140	2006	The 12 Days of Black Christmas	Self	40
141	2008	God's Ears	Lee Robinson	0
142	2009	War Wolves	Tony Ford	32
143	2009	How Bruce Lee Changed the World	Self	80
144	2009	Clarkworld	Self	100
145	2010	Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen	John	61
146	2010	Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy	Self	78
147	2012	Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s	Self	77
148	2015	The Dentros	George Dentro	0
149	2015	Black Christmas Legacy	Self (archive footage)	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Audience Member	72
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Martin Glass	63
4	1955	Gunsmoke	Virgil Stanley	66
5	1955	Gunsmoke	Pedro Manez	66
6	1955	Gunsmoke	Gristy Calhoun	66
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Dingo	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Cal Strom, Jr.	66
9	1959	Bonanza	Chief Jocova	75
10	1959	Bonanza	Blas	75
11	1959	Bonanza	Steven Friday	75
12	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
13	1962	The Virginian	Dell Stetler	65
14	1962	The Virginian	Ben Oakes	65
15	1962	The Virginian	Sgt. Terence Mulcahy	65
16	1963	Burke's Law	Bud Charney	60
17	1963	Burke's Law	Gil Lynch	60
18	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Mario Silvetti	57
19	1967	Ironside	Eric Saginor	68
20	1968	It Takes a Thief	Dead Man	70
21	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Harry Clive	71
22	1968	The Name of the Game	Peter Max	68
23	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Dr. Theodore Stuart	40
24	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Mike Tedesca	75
25	1970	Night Gallery	Ianto	78
26	1972	Banacek	Harry Harland	86
27	1972	Banyon	Johnny Clay	70
28	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Vincent 'Vince' Hagopian Jr.	69
29	1972	Kung Fu	Raven	77
30	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Maj. Frederick Sloan	73
31	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Nedlick	73
32	1974	Petrocelli	Richie Martin	71
33	1974	The Rockford Files	Dave Delaroux	75
34	1975	Starsky & Hutch	René Nadasy	73
35	1975	Wonder Woman	Captain Radl	70
36	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Publisher Charles Desskasa	75
37	1976	Once an Eagle	Capt. Townshend	68
38	1977	79 Park Avenue	Harry Vito	48
39	1978	Fantasy Island	Dr. Roger Sullivan	64
40	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Ed Russler	73
41	1981	Falcon Crest	Tony Cumson	55
42	1982	Hotel	Jack Curtis	68
43	1983	The A-Team	Martin James	75
44	1983	The A-Team	Kalem	75
45	1983	Hardcastle and McCormick	Martin Cody	64
46	1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Dirk Fredericks	63
47	1983	Masquerade		50
48	1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Zach Donahue	57
49	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Marco Gambini	75
50	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Bernardo Bonelli	75
51	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Jerry Lydecker	75
52	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Garth December	72
53	1986	Matlock	John Franklin	71
54	1992	Lucky Luke		57
55	1992	Lucky Luke	The Man in Black	57
56	1992	Melrose Place	Henry Waxman	59
57	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Walter Gordon	76
58	2005	Masters of Horror	Jeb 'Pa' Jameson	72

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