John Saxon is dead, he starred in Nightmare and I 3 of Operation Dragon
John Saxon's career even begins in the 1950s and unfolds in over 200 appearances between cinema and television.
John Saxon, stage name of Carmine Orrico, was born in Brooklyn to parents of Italian origins and became famous in his career as one of the most versatile "characters" not only for different ethnic groups - he played the role of Italian but also of Mexican, Puerto Rican and even Middle Eastern - but also as "the tough guy" especially in action films but not only.
His first prominent role is in the western South- west of Sonora in 1966 alongside Marlon Brando who earned him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. His most famous roles remain those of the martial artist John Roper in the 1973 cult The 3 of Operation Dragon alongside Bruce Lee and that of the policeman Donald Thompson in Nightmare - From the Deep of the Night the first film of the series directed in 1984 by Wes Craven . He then resumed the role in the third chapter of the saga in 1987.
Since the 70s he has also devoted himself to television with appearances in various episodes of the ABC television series The Six Million Dollar Man, playing the role Major Frederick Sloan (the first to be kidnapped and replaced by a robot, then confronted and destroyed by Colonel Steve Austin), as well as that of the leader of the rebel aliens who will oppose Sasquatch to both Steve and Jaime. The latter role was also extended to another series, The Bionic Woman. The physical characteristics of the actors were later used for Kenner's articulated puppet called 'Maskatron', which was based on the series.
also Participated as a guest star in an episode of the tv series Starsky & Hutch (Series 2 – Ep. 09 “The vampire”), the A-Team and, more recently, CSI – Crime Scene investigation.
Narrow its relationship with Italy. It was one of the main protagonists of the wave of spaghetti westerns and poliziotteschi of those years of fencing in Naples violent (1976) The cynic, the infamous, the violent (1977), both of Umberto Lenzi, and then passing to the court of Dario Argento in the Darkness (1982).
