"Anything that comes along that strikes my fancy I will do."
John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico, August 5, 1936 - July 25, 2020) was an American actor and martial artist who worked on more than two hundred projects during a career spanning sixty years. Saxon was known for his work in westerns and horror movies, often playing police officers and detectives.
Film Roles
- It Should Happen to You as Boy in Park (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born (1954) as Usher (uncredited)
- The Unforgiven as Johnny Portugal
- War Hunt as Pvt. Raymond Endore
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) as Dr. Marcello Bassi
- Queen of Blood as Allan Brenner
- Joe Kidd as Luis Chama
- Enter the Dragon as Roper
- Black Christmas (1974) as Lt. Ken Fuller
- Mitchell as Walter Deaney
- The Electric Horseman as Hunt Sears
- Cannibal Apocalypse as Norman Hopper
- Battle Beyond the Stars as Sador
- Tenebre as Bullmer
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe as Klael
- A Nightmare on Elm Street as Lt. Donald Thompson
- Nightmare Beach as Strycher
- Beverly Hills Cop III as Orrin Sanderson
- From Dusk Till Dawn as FBI Agent Stanley Chase
Television Roles
- Burke's Law (2 episodes)
- Gunsmoke (5 episodes)
- Dr. Kildare as Richard Ross (2 episodes)
- The Time Tunnel as Marco Polo
- Cimarron Strip as Screamer
- Garrison's Gorillas as Janus
- Bonanza (3 episodes)
- Ironside (1967) (2 episodes)
- The Virginian (3 episodes)
- It Takes a Thief (1968) as Dead Man
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Dr. Theodore Stuart
- Night Gallery as Ianto
- Kung Fu (1972) as Raven
- The Streets of San Francisco as Vincent Hagopian, Jr.
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Mike Tedesca
- The Six Million Dollar Man (2 episodes)
- The Rockford Files as Dave Delaroux
- The Bionic Woman as Nedlick
- Starsky & Hutch as Rene Nadasy
- Wonder Woman as Captain Radl (2 episodes)
- Quincy, M.E. as Publisher Charles Desskasa
- Fantasy Island (6 episodes)
- Hawaii Five-O as Harry Clive
- Vega$ (1978) as Michael Jennings
- Dynasty (1981) as Rashid Ahmed (6 episodes)
- Hardcastle and McCormick as Martin Cody
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Dirk Fredericks (2 episodes)
- The A-Team (2 episodes)
- Monsters as Benjamin O'Connell (episode "The Waiting Room")
- Magnum, P.I. as Ed Russler
- Murder, She Wrote (3 episodes)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Garth December
- Matlock as John Franklin
- In the Heat of the Night as Dalton Sykes
- Melrose Place as Henry Waxman (4 episodes)
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Straker
- CSI as Walter Gordon
- Masters of Horror as Jeb "Pa" Jameson
