# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-saxon
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:59:33.987Z

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deathDate: "2020-07-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, Saxon studied with Stella Adler and landed at Universal, where Rock, Pretty Baby and Portrait in Black turned him into a Golden Globe-winning teen idol in the late 1950s. When Hollywood stalled, he went to Italy and stayed through the '70s and '80s, finding the work more mature than what the studios were offering. Enter the Dragon put him opposite Bruce Lee in 1973; Westerns like The Appaloosa earned him a supporting-actor nomination. But it was horror that claimed him: Black Christmas in '74, then A Nightmare on Elm Street a decade later, playing the detective walking into rooms no one should enter. He kept working into the '90s — a cameo in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, a bit in From Dusk till Dawn — before stepping back, the reliable professional who'd done the job 200 times over.