John Saxon
American actor (1936-2020)
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United StatesHe moved from teen idol to character actor to horror mainstay, the cop who walked into the nightmare and somehow made it out — across 200 projects and six decades, he became the face you recognized even when you couldn't place the name.
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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…
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