John Saxon

John Saxon
Date of Birth: 05 Aug 1936
Country: USA
Biography: John Saxon (born August 5, 1936) is an American actor who has worked on over 200 projects during the span of sixty years. Saxon is most known for his work in horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Black Christmas, both of which feature Saxon as a policeman in search of the killer. He is also known for his role as Roper in the 1973 film Enter the Dragon, in which he starred with Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly... - www.wikipedia.org
Total Credits at Criticker: 113 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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Enter the Dragon
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover (imdb)
Beverly Hills Cop III
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Black Christmas
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. (imdb)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
As Freddy Krueger continues his murdering, the kids, led by Freddie's main opponent in the first film, prepare to fight back. (imdb)
Wes Craven\
Freddy Kreuger, upset that he was killed off in the last "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie, attempts to murder his creators and actors from his previous films. (imdb)
Fast Company
Standard good guys vs. bad guys drag racing movie. Nice scene of the driver's view during a funny car run.. (imdb)
The Electric Horseman
Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights... (imdb)
A Star Is Born
Drunken waining movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night... (imdb)
Tenebre
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book. (imdb)
Joe Kidd
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. (imdb)
Cannibal Apocalypse
Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten. (imdb)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Mr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them. (imdb)
Mitchell
Joe Don Baker is Mitchell- a hard-nosed, soft-bellied cop with an affinity for porn and Schlitz. His latest assignment has him engaging in no-speed car chases, yelling at children, shooting innocents and sloppily carousing Linda Evans. (imdb)
Masters of Horror
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Nora is a young tourist traveling through Rome which takes a sudden turn when she witnesses a murder by a serial killer that the police have sought for years for the so-called Alphabet Killings, and Nora soon finds herself in way-over-her-head trouble when the police want her cooperation to catch the killer while the mystery killer soon targets her for his next victim. (imdb)
It Should Happen to You
Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things -- like making a name for herself... (imdb)
Fever Pitch
Ryan O'Neal stars as Taggart, a sports reporter obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into debt, he compounds his problems with assorted loansharks and gambling operators. Taggart has already lost his wife because of his compulsive gambling, but he takes up with big-timer Charley (Giancarlo Giannini), hoping to make a killing and settle the score. (All Movie Guide)
The Unforgiven
Odd Western about racial intolerance focuses around Kiowa claim that the Zachary daughter is one of their own, stolen in a raid. The dispute results in other whites' turning their backs on the Zacharys when the truth is revealed by Mother... (imdb)
Queen of Blood
The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. Alien ship crash lands on Mars, and a rescue team is sent out from Earth. (The plot thickens! :) Eventually a surviving female is located and brought on to the human ship. The female is light green with an amazing hair-do. After some unsuccessful attempts by the human crew to feed her, she is more or less left to herself... (imdb)
The Bees
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists (John Carradine, John Saxon and Angel Tompkins) work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world. (imdb)
Beyond Evil
An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife. (imdb)
Battle Beyond the Stars
In yet another film patterned on _The Seven Samurai_, a band of diverse heroes in outer space are assembled to defend a planet of peaceful colonists from an armada of aggressors. If the special effects look familiar, it is because you've the same space sequences recycled in other low budget SF films. (imdb)
The Final Alliance
A drifter and his pet Puma stands up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town. (imdb)
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
The story of Elizabeth Taylor's rise to stardom, beginning in Los Angeles 1942. Her dominating mother has decided that her daughter must become a star - no matter what others or Elizabeth herself think. Assisted by 'Hedda Hooper' , she gets a part in Lassie Come Home (1943). She becomes a child star, raised by her studio. Growing up, she has several love-affairs - and several divorces, since her men can't accept being married to a Hollywood icon. (imdb)
The Appaloosa
Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit. (imdb)
Stanley\
Set in 1950's Hollywood, two filmmakers become unlikely friends: Leo, who writes violent B-movies, and Stanley, a promising director. Nothing can come between them, until the day Stanley shows up with a mysterious girlfriend, Nina. (imdb)
Trapped Ashes
Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.
The Cavern
Six Soldiers and a women are trapped in a cave in the last days of WW2 in Italy, and have to overcome their differences.
Joseph\
Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding the fact that Joseph is his favorite son, resulting in the constant envy and resentment of his brothers. Eventually, in their bitterness, they plot revenge against this favored son. When Joseph accompanies his brothers on a trip to New York, they commit the ultimate betrayal. (imdb)
Blood Beach
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand... (imdb)
Hands of Steel
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. (imdb)
Nightmare Beach
Diablo is a biker gang leader executed for the murder of a young woman. A year after his death, it's time for Spring Break. Football players Skip and Ronnie head to the beach, where Skip meets Gail, the sister of the woman who was murdered a year ago. All the fun and glory of Spring Break, however, is about to turn into a living nightmare when a mysterious person in a biker outfit begins to kill people by electrocution. Could it be that Diablo has returned from the dead? (imdb)
Portrait in Black
Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan. Since Quinn is her husband's physician, the murder is easily committed, but blackmail, guilt and suspicion are the unanticipated results. (imdb)
Wrong Is Right
Only Patrick Hale can prevent a desperate president, the head of the CIA, a trigger happy general, terrorists, an arms dealer, and religious fanatics from destroying our world, but he has other things on his mind. (imdb)
War Hunt
Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution. (imdb)
War Wolves
War Wolves (2009) - TV Movie
Ford (Saxon) leads a unit on the hunt for an escaped, infected team member who was infected by a werewolf virus. But others have been infected and a group of she-wolves may be more dangerous then they can possible imagine
Blazing Magnum
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was. (imdb)
Aftershock
An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings. (imdb)
Animal Instincts
Animal Instincts (1992) - Direct-to-Video
A police officer videotapes his wife having various sexual encounters to spruce up their marriage, which soon lands both of them in hot water with a mobster whom blackmails them to videotape an encounter with a crooked politician. (imdb)
Death of a Gunfighter
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. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets (imdb)
Raid on Entebbe
Second of a series of dramas about a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. (imdb)
The Arrival
An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood. (imdb)
Night Caller from Outer Space
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. (imdb)
The Reluctant Debutante
British parents try to prepare their Americanized daughter for her social debut. (TCM.com)
The Baby Doll Murders
Someone is killing off young women in LA, leaving a baby doll with each of the bodies. Convinced a recently released criminal is responsible, the detective pushes hard on the ex-con, who slaps him with harassment charges. Suspended from the force, he continues investigating, and finds that each of the victims were patients of a Beverly Hills doctor. (imdb)
Posse from Hell
Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others display only revulsion. (imdb)
The Best of the Martial Arts Films
There is no plot in this film. It is a collection of the best fighting scenes from the martial arts films (i.e. Bruce Lee and others). (imdb)
The Big Fisherman
The life story of St. Peter as interpreted from Lloyd Douglas' novel. (TCM)
The Glove
A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals. (imdb)
The Big Score
A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. (imdb)
Blackmail
Blackmail (1991) - TV Movie
Two drifters attempt to blackmail a gangster's wife. (imdb)
Blood Salvage
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then proceeds to sell their organs on the black market to Mr. Stone. Everything is fine until he kidnaps the handicapped April and finds that she is harder to control than the others. (imdb)
Can Ellen Be Saved?
A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group. (imdb)
Planet Earth
Planet Earth (1974) - TV Movie
A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where he finds that women rule the world and that men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement. (imdb)
Criminal Act
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system. (imdb)
Crossing the Line
A U.S. motocross racer joins a team to please his girlfriend and spite his rich father. (Reelz Channel)
Cry Tough
Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight, but is tempted back to his old life by his former gang. (imdb)
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Violent Naples
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. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary. (wikipedia.org)
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist
A young gangster nicknamed "Chinaman," and his two thugs scheme to rip off crime boss Frank Di Maggio, who runs a criminal empire in Rome. They plan to take control of all of his syndicate operations. As a vicious war breaks out between the two feuding gangsters, police inspector Leonardo Tanzi comes on the scene, guns a'blazing. Driven by the recent killing of this uncle, it seems nothing can stop him in his quest for bloody revenge. (Amazon.com)
Once an Eagle
Once an Eagle (1976) - TV Mini-Series
The story of two Army officers, one a ruthless, career-obsessed schemer, the other his exact opposite, and their personal and professional lives from the end of World War I to the beginning of Vietnam. (imdb)
This Happy Feeling
On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night. He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove her from party is next door neighbor. The two men compete for her affections... (imdb)
Moonshine County Express
When a moonshiner is murdered, his three daughters take over the family business. (imdb)
Raiders of the Sacred Stone
An ailing millionaire and master jewel thief invites the best rival jewel thieves in the world to his island estate to compete for the ultimate prize in a suspenseful tale of action and intrigue. (allmovie.com)
The Swiss Conspiracy
When a Swiss bank finds that the confidentiality of some of its more vulnerable customers has been compromised it calls in an American investigator, who soon uncovers a web of deceit and blackmail. With old debts being paid off his own health is soon in danger, but at least he starts to gets to know one of the bank's female customers pretty well. (imdb)
Jonathan of the Bears
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. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths. (imdb)
One Dollar Too Many
A gang of three steal 300,000 dollars but the money proves difficult to hang on to. The gang members try to double-cross each other but eventually are forced to reunite against a common enemy and end up sharing the money with a fourth person. (spaghetti-western.net)
Running Scared
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies. (imdb)
A Special Cop in Action
The plot focuses on Commissario Betti. Once again, he's aggravated at the amount of crime going on in the city and his attention is focused mainly on two big crimes; a bank robbery and a kidnap plot. The Commissioner battles bravely to ensure the crooks are brought to justice but soon realises that there's no point in merely sorting out the henchmen and decides to go after the man he believes is heading the criminal operations (imdb)
The Plunderers
When four rowdy cowhands ride into a small town and make trouble, no one seems willing or able to take them on, not even Sam Christy, the toughest man in town. But then there is a murder. (imdb)
Strange New World
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth. (imdb)
My Mom\
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. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human. (imdb)
Scorpion with Two Tails
Sergio Martino directed this strange mixed-genre horror film starring Elvire Audray as the young widow of an archaeologist (John Saxon), who was murdered while working on an Etruscan dig. Dreaming a premonition of his death, the widow leaves New York for Italy to investigate. Before long, she is attacked by bats and is involved in several murders. Her father (Van Johnson) is smuggling heroin in one of 12 crates of Etruscan artifacts, but gets killed in a cave-in... (allmovie.com)
For Singles Only
Those looking for a tasteful but fun little musical comedy had best look elsewhere as this one is basically about the exploitation to two naive young women who move into a swinging singles complex to find some fun. Unfortunately, they end up objectified, and pursued. One of them leaves the place and gains firsthand experience with gang rape and suicide. (Sandra Brennan, Rovi)
Maximum Force
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man. (imdb)
Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up
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. (imdb)
The Last Samurai
A successful businessman searches for his Samurai ancestors in a war-torn African nation. (imdb)
The Unguarded Moment
A woman has recently been murdered. A teacher at the nearby high school receives threatening notes from a student. Detective Graham is the only one who believes that she is in danger. She fingers the boy, a popular student. Her teaching career is threatened, as is her life. The detective looks for evidence, and brings him in on burglary and murder charges. Both crimes are solved. (imdb)
Company of Killers
A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murdered. (imdb)
The Intruders
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. (imdb)
Payoff
Payoff (1991) - TV Movie
For most of his life, a former cop has been tormented by his inadvertent involvement in the death of his parents. Now, years later, he learns the identity of the real perpetrators: gangsters headquartered in a Lake Tahoe resort. Armed with this invaluable knowledge, he meticulously plots his revenge. (allrovi.com)
Hellmaster
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers. (imdb)
Cross Shot
In this crime drama a mobster kills a cop during a robbery. He finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media. (allrovi.com)
Final Payback
An ex-cop, framed for a murder he didn't commit, sets out to find the real killer. (imdb)
Lancelot: Guardian of Time
Lancelot is sent through time to protect Arthur before he becomes King of Camelot. (imdb)
Mark Strikes Again
A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in. (imdb)
Family Killer
This Italian mafia melodrama stars two American-expatriate leading men, Arthur Kennedy and John Saxon. Kennedy stars as a mafia don known as Ferrante. The crimes committed in Ferrante's name are monstrous, and at least one of them is bound to boomerang disastrously. While its derivative plotline is unremarkable, Family Killer is distinguished by its number of alias. (allrovi.com)
Istanbul Express
A railway detective pursues criminals. (imdb)
American Playhouse
Killing Obsession
Before he was locked up in Parkview State Psychiatric Unit, Albert Clifton stabbed his mother's housekeeper to death and whisked away her 11-year old daughter, Annie Smith, to the Elysee Hotel, where he performed a mock wedding ceremony. Released decades later, Albert decides to renew that bond, combing the telephone book for all the Annie Smiths he can find. (TV Guide)
Winchester 73
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.
Agostino
Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, the film narrates the coming of age of a young boy, Agostino, who is on vacation with his attractive and eligible mother. Mother and son enjoy a close relationship, but trouble soon begins when another man begins to gain her attention. Jealously emerges as Agostino struggles to comes to terms with his feelings for his mother.
Mister Kingstreet\
Set in 1939 immediately prior to the onset of World War II, an American couple, James Kingstreet and his wife make their home and manage a wildlife preserve located between Italian-governed Abyssinia and British Kenya as war approaches. Kingstreet's sole assistant is a native and his one-eyed brother. (imdb)
The Ravagers
Japanese troops invade a convent in the Philippines, in the hope of recovering a gold bullion shipment. However, an important secret lies within the building.
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the \
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. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime. (imdb)
Snatched
Snatched (1973) - TV Movie
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.
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The cases of well-respected neurosurgeon Dr. David Craig and his two young charges.
The Restless Years
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. As their friendship turns to love, gossip and lies threaten their relationship in this small town drama.
The Immigrants
A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would come with wealth until he takes up with a young Chinese woman.
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
The Road Home is the classic Americana love story. It is about unconditional love and fate. It also shows how baseball is not only a metaphor for America but for our story's hero, Danny Foster, as well. (imdb)
God\
While eating breakfast after her shift at the strip club, Alexia meets Noah, an autistic man who works at a local boxing gym...
Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime
The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.
Running Wild
A young rookie cop goes undercover to bust up an auto theft ring run by juvenile delinquents. (imdb)
Cannibal Apocalypse Redux
Retrospective documentary on the making of the 1980 Italian splatter horror opus "Cannibal Apocalypse."
Whew!
Whew! (1979) - TV Series
Try to win two games in order to get a chance to beat the Gauntlet of Villains for US$25,000 in cash. (imdb)
Living in Fear
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met by hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife? (imdb)
Night Class
When Jake, a security guard in a small hotel, inadvertently helps out a beautiful burglar, he becomes a primary suspect and is quickly fired. Jake decides to track down the burglar himself and retrieve the stolen property.
The Time Tunnel
No Escape No Return
Two cops go undercover to infiltrate a violent drug ring, and are in for a shock when they find out who's running it. (imdb)
Kung Fu
The Six Million Dollar Man
Crossfire
Crossfire (1975) - TV Movie
Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.