John Saxon dies

awwww.....

R1- I literally saw this and said AWWWWW....

I know that he had dementia and had even attended some of those autograph shows not to long ago and his wife took care of him..

God bless, man.

Loved him as the dad in Nightmare on Elm Street and always thought he was handsome..

I am in my early 40's (I know he worked way before Nightmare- but that's my memory of him)

Damn, he was a hunk in his youth and a hot daddy in middle age. I remember Mary and Phyllis fought over him in a memorable episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

RIP

He’ll always be Lt. Thompson to me.

it has been a crap year or so for deaths of my favorites. Max von Sydow, Rutger Hauer AND John Saxon?

saxy

Now, you know where everybody is and what everybody’s doing and who they’re doing it with.

Liz, how do I get in touch with Rashid Ahmed?

Very sad news

Aww, my Dad, my brother and I were all big fans of his, and would see any B movie as long as he was in it. I feel like I'm losing part of my youth, but he had a long, productive life, and I've never read an unkind word about him. RIP, Mr Saxon.

Has Kelly Ripa issued a joint tweet yet?

John Saxon Vs GAY (1979)

I always liked John Saxon :(

RIP, handsome man

He guest starred on "Wonder Woman."

Watching that hairline recede above his beautiful eyes over the last 60 years was one of those sustaining things in the business that helped us all keep going.

John Saxon in 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 (1966):

He worked a lot. Saw him in all kinds of things - always a dependable actor. I also thought he was a good looking man as a kid. I went for that dark and handsome thing from an early age.

Didn't know about the dementia issues - that's a tough road to go down. R.I.P.

He was one of my favorite '70s character actors.

way back when

When I was a kid, I used to collect the 'Six Million Dollar Man' 12-inch action figures. One of them was "Maskatron," after Season 1 Episode 4, 'Day of the Robot,' where John Saxon's character was replaced by an imposter, a robot. The Maskatron doll had interchangeable faces, and one of them was John Saxon.

RONA BITCH, that you?

He was in more shit than the Fly Family Robinson.

Has Lorenzo Llamas commented yet?

Could he have been in more iconic genre stuff? Enter the Dragon, Nightmare on Elm Street, Six Million Dollar Man...even Dynasty!

Always liked it when he turned up.

in Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much . . .

Sad he is gone, but having Alzheimers/dementia is no way to live. Three years ago, he and his wife were interviewed at the retirement home they moved into, and they were showing some of his films. She had answer for him because he wasn't able to.

The pneumonia was probably caused from food or drink doing down wrong in throat into his lungs, as Alzheimers/dementia causes great difficulty swallowing properly in late stages of it.

^^that's what happened to Mary Tyler Moore.

He was never on "What's My Line," so something must've been wrong with him.

Once more YET another coronavirus cover up

His son is pretty sexy, too!

RiP John, he was a steadily working, reliable character actor.

For such a beautiful man of Italian heritage, his birth name is Carmine Orrico. I guess the ethnic discrimination in Hollywood made him change his name to something literally very Anglo-Saxon.

"Discovered" by Henry Willson

r31 that's how it was back then.

I remember he did a scene on Dynasty with Joan Collins where he comes out of a shower with a towel around his waist and what looked like a cucumber hidden in his towel

R31 He didn't look super Italian though, especially as he got older. Because of his swarthy looks, he was cast as different ethnic backgrounds hispanic and middle eastern even. Beats being typecast in mobster roles, like so many Italian actors were in the past.

Saxon, an Italian American, was born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Antonio Orrico, a dock worker, and Anna (née Protettore). August 5, 1935 – July 25, 2020.

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson, agent Henry Willson saw Saxon's picture on the cover of a detective magazine and immediately contacted the boy's family in Brooklyn. With his parents' permission, the 17-year-old Orrico contracted with Willson, and he was renamed John Saxon.

One of those guys who got better looking with age.

[quote]He didn't look super Italian though, especially as he got older.

Oh FFS here we go......

When I was a gayling back in the mid-70s I had just finished fooling around with a somewhat older guy, and we were talking about who was gay in show business, and he told me that John Saxon was gay. He even knew his original name.

I didn't really know who that was, even though I had seen him in Enter the Dragon and Black Christmas, but that info has stayed with me all these years, and I have casually followed some of his career since then. I really enjoyed his exploitation movies, especially the Italian cannibal ones.

Anyone have any more info his gay side?

Rutger Hauer is DEAD!!????!!

I just sent him a chain letter!

Carmine Orrico

I wished he kept his beautiful first name.

[quote]Discovered by the same agent who launched the careers of Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter,

Uh huh.

*RIP*

Great actor, had a great career and worked right up to nearly the end.

he was so brutish and sexy on that episode of "wonder woman" you know damn well his character if given the chance if they had kept the amazons without their bracelets to protect themselves against gun fire, he would have screwed wonder woman 24/7 until he got her pregnant! that was the whole point of them taking over paradise island to capture these super woman and of course use them to impregnate..

i remember being a little boy and seeing him on that tv movie "future earth" or something like that where his character is captured by a tribe of amazon women and he is drugged into being helpless and submissive and is auction off with his shirt being ripped off of him! so so erotic and sexy to me it was a little horn dog!...

“Planet Earth” from 1974 with DL Icon, Diana Muldaur.

He was so sexy. I loved the Nightmare on Elm Street series as a kid and still do and Black Christmas is still one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. He was in some great movies.

His first starring role, from 1955. DAMN he was fine...

As Rashid Ahmed on "Dynasty," with Joan.

He knows he's the prettiest in the room!

Smokin' hot.

R33, Bitch please

[quote]The pneumonia was probably caused from food or drink doing down wrong in throat into his lungs, as Alzheimers/dementia causes great difficulty swallowing properly in late stages of it.

Not even in the late stages--dementia patients in the middle stages start to do what's called "pocketing," when they store their food in their cheeks to swallow later, and some of it winds up going down the wrong tube, which gives them pneumonia.

Usually at some point the caretakers of people with dementia are asked when they want to stop giving the dementia patients antibiotics to cure the dementia patient's frequent pneumonia, because it really comes as a gift so the person dies before they get to be such a vegetable they get to the stage you describe above (the late stage, when they're like zombies). That's why they often call pneumonia "the old person's friend."

He wasn't in the 'late stages' of dementia/Alzheimer's. Maybe the mid-stages. Did an interview w/his "wife" three years ago after they moved him to a home, I mean 'retirement village', and while she answered almost all of the questions, he was still smiley and agreeable.

Alzheimer's patients are typically ill for 10-15 years or so. He may have been showing signs about 5-6 years ago, so he stopped doing those autograph signings and went quietly into the night. Sad.

Here he is, in his last (barely) speaking role...

I always feel bad for celebrities who die at the same time as someone more famous.

So young!

Someone posted his frontal from his young days with some stupid pink blot, but the real photo is out there.

For R57

Real name: Carmine Orrico. He wasn’t the greatest actor but he was handsome and had screen presence. He was also an Italian guy and martial arts expert with a great body, thick full bush, and fat uncut dick which I’m sure he used to his best advantage in Hollywood.

RIP You sexy fuck.

R58 thanks for that.

The tip is also out there in a fuller photo. Hot man.

He had a full and manly bush, but he couldn't live forever.

John and Sandra and Anthony and Lana...

That movie is hilarious.

r41=Shirley Feeney

Wasn't he one of Henry Willson's boys?

RIP, handsome guy.

Beauty's where you find it...

You are beautiful, no matter what they say...

He certainly was yummy. I will miss him.

Handsome devil

I first saw him in the Nightmares.

But Enter the Dragon is awesome — it’s still the archetypal martial arts flick.

You can see its structure in all the John Wicke movies.

Anyone have a story of actually fucking him or getting fucked? I bet he was good in bed.

Nice cock.

R73 I bet Henry Willson had some stories to tell.

Damn. So many deaths.

He was one of the stars of The Bold Ones TV series in the early 70s. He starred with E.G. Marshall. As a gayling, I found John Sacon fascinating, although I was too young to understand why.

Such a pretty face

You forgot to mention Linda Lavin as his much older sister in the clip at R47

I really liked him in The Unguarded Moment.....he played a disturbed teen boy out to rape Esther Williams.....it shows up now and then.....

As a 80's kid, I only remember him in his combover days, from the 70's on. It's weird seeing him as a youngster with a full head of hair.

Look who did a panel at the Academy of Arts and Sciences for the 40th Anniversary of ENTER THE DRAGON!

It was rare, but sometimes John Saxon would do an ELM STREET panel!

Can you believe John Saxon did a BLACK CHRISTMAS panel?

You could say Saxon developed a typecasting late in his career. In both BLACK CHRISTMAS and the ELM STREETS, Saxon played the douchebag police lieutenant in a slasher who won't believe the teenagers' claims about the killer!

I always thought he was gay.

I'm certainly glad to realize I wasn't the only one who thought Saxon was hot. In fact, I think he got hotter as he aged even if he'd lost his hair. He still had a charisma that was unbeatable.

Know him primarily from his 70s and 80s work. Never knew how handsome he used to be.

Has that bitch Debra Winger commented?

Debra Winger as Wonder Girl was so miscast. As if the stunningly Amazonian Lynda Carter would've had a sister who looked like that.

He had a wife????

He was married ONLY three times. What's your point R90?

R91 Many people assumed Saxon was gay.

He was a Henry Willson boy, after all.

Duh R92. Saxon may not have been gay, but he was smart enough to know what he had to do to get ahead, or a head. I'm guessing he was bisexual, but could've been straight. Always have to wonder why he never became an A-lister, yet his costar in 1962's War Hunt, Robert Redford did.

Beautiful man which was enough to keep him working, because he wasn't much of an actor.

As a gayling in the 80s, I had a thing for him on Falcon Crest. Even though he was mature by that point, his body was still smoking hot. There was a scene where he and Kim Novak fucked among the grapevines and he was walking around shirtless. Hello Daddy! RIP.

R94, The exact same thing could be said of Redford.

Redfield is DeNiro or Olivier by comparison with Saxon.

I remember him most from the Gene Roddenberry TV film (unsold pilot) Planet Earth, and his appearances on Murder She Wrote. One of those rare guys who remained sexy as he aged. He presented a lot of masculinity/macho pride. Possibly to all the hole he presented in his youth to get his career going... His son is sure hot!

There was a picture of him maybe 10 or 15 years ago that I saw where he was shirtless and it was clear as day that he still worked out a ton and was in excellent shape. It was very impressive.

Very sexy man and, like others have said, he got sexier with age.

One more.

Speaking of Henry Wilson, did anyone catch the NetFlix bio back in May starring Jim Parsons?

Even if he only had a few of the boys in his stable; Henry Wilson knew how to pick them....

Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Chad Everett, Robert Wagner, Nick Adams, Guy Madison, Troy Donahue, Mike Connors, Rory Calhoun, John Saxon, Yale Summers, Clint Walker, Doug McClure, Dack Rambo, Ty Hardin, and John Derek, just to name a few.

Saxon provided a reality counterpoint to the bizarre and over the top performances from Blakely and Langenkamp. He was really good in the third film as well.

(----)

Fuck off with your "Netflix bio," r101.

Ryan Murphy's HOLLYWOOD was historical fiction and rather fanciful at that. His team that gets sued by the real Olivia de Havilland for presenting her doing thing's she'd never do, etc.

SHITSHOW PLUG FAIL

R104

You are really a miserable old soul aren't you? Why such a nasty response to a perfectly innocent comment.

Death of some of you nasty old queens cannot come soon enough for the world. Hint; you won't be missed.

Academy Award-nominated Ronee Blakley was praised for her performance in ELM STREET and Heather Langenkamp was adequate.

r102 is the deranged Actress Stalker on Elm Street who enjoys ignoring that Blakley's character was a drunk and Langenkamp was supposed to be the Girl Nextdoor.

Pay it no mind.

When he was young he looked a lot like this current DL Fave

"Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Chad Everett, Robert Wagner, Nick Adams, Guy Madison, Troy Donahue, Mike Connors, Rory Calhoun, John Saxon, Yale Summers, Clint Walker, Doug McClure, Dack Rambo, Ty Hardin, and John Derek, just to name a few."

How many of those guys did Willson nail?

[quote]His team that gets sued by the real Olivia de Havilland for presenting her doing thing's she'd never do, etc.

The bukkake scene WAS a bit much.

I grew up watching him on tv. I always wanted to fuck him!

OMFG! I just saw r59 pic. I totally would have fucked him when I was growing up. That's a beautiful huge cock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

R111 That’s not him unfortunately. The black-and-white pic looks real though.

R112, that's sad. I would have still fucked him.

Thanks R97. That was funny...

I thought Saxon was a good actor who got typecast as he got older.

His full bush tried to challenge Burt Lancaster’s in the 50s. I’d say it way a tie.

Good actor, sexy Italian, handsome man, nice intact cock.. He had it all.

If I recall, Saxon acted several times with John Casavettes and his wife, Gena Rowlands. All very good actors.

Has Susan Dey sent her condolences? Susan, we’re waiting. Do the right thing.

John Saxon was ok, but he wasn't no Vince Edwards.

Might have had a thing for male tweens.

Nope, no contest.

Very funny episode. Mr. Saxon is sexy as ever, and Ms. Cloris Leachman is hilarious!

[quote] Has Susan Dey sent her condolences? Susan, we’re waiting. Do the right thing.

Can someone explain the Susan Dey joke to me? Did she say or do something cunty?

R124 When David Cassidy died, Susan Dey was uncharacteristically silent about offering her condolences and she was skewered by the DLers.

Ever since then, every time someone dies, DL asks if Susan Dey has bothered to say anything.

Thanks for the explanation R125!

I also somehow missed that David Cassidy died, and I am a child of the 70's!

[quote]John Saxon was ok, but he wasn't no Vince Edwards.

So then he was a Vince Edwards?

R127

For the love of God! You old grammar queens are a royal pain.

Comment was a variation of "... no oil painting" .......

I had developed a crush on him, when I saw him in "Planter Earth," the TV movie where he became a "Dink."

I later saw "Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation," and John Saxon played Jimmy Stewart's brainiac son-in-law. He sits in the sand in a very revealing speedo-type swimsuit.

Here, he is as a Dink:

R108, I doubt Willson had the fortitude to 'nail' anyone, but my guess is 15 out of those 17 -- including Saxon -- 'auditioned' for their potential stardom.

He was very handsome, even as an older man.

r129 Is the actress in that shot a runner-up in "The Agnes Moorehead Look Alike Contest"? At the very least she seems to be channelling her.

He played a young, bookish husband to Jimmy Stewart's oldest daughter in "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" (1962). Saxon has a scene on the beach where he takes off his shirt and, damn, I knew I was gay. I had a crush on him ever since. They put him in glasses to make him seem academic, but the beach scene said otherwise. Maybe that's why I always have gravitated to muscled nerds.

He made combovers sexy.

[quote]Oh FFS here we go......

The obsession on here with race/ethnicity and essentially thinking anyone who isn't whiter than white is lesser, is always the thing that has made me disgusted with several DLers.

r135 it's bizarre, like taking a trip back to the old-timey days. These idiots only define "white" as being Anglo/Nordic and nothing else. Truly strange.

R135, And start moronic multiple threads on why Italians aren't actually white.

I'll never understand why when obits are written, they say 'dies', instead of 'died'.

He isn't still dying is he?

^^ Is English your second language?

"Dies" is present indicative tense, 3rd. person singular.

"Died" is past tense or past participle.

An obituary is written in present tense announcing news of a demise. After that event the defunct person is referred to as having died because it is now in the past.

If you look up his Wiki page (or anything else not an obituary), they will say "Died on....." or " Saxon died of pneumonia in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on July 25, 2020, shortly before his 84th birthday......"

Tombstones and other monuments for the dead list "born" and "died" giving dates when each event occurred.

^^ Huh?

No, R139, and R140's explanation still doesn't make sense. On a particular day, someone DIED, they didn't "dies".

He was in EVERYTHING...he made a career as the guy you always recognized but who's name you never knew

Aye, Aye,Aye. “Dies” sounds fine. It is written stating it from the time of the actual occurrence, the death. “Died” would be ok also. It is too hot to overanalyse this.

r142 In newspapers, the headline is usually written in the present tense, although the story or obit is written in the past tense. That's done so the news seems fresher to the reader. The same is done on TV.

Film star John Saxon dies at 83. Film at 11.

Let's go to the video tape, R145.

Sadly now it's just some flash memory -- there's no poetry in that.

I always cry at those Acad. Award In Memoriums when they show little flashes of the people who died over that year. Saxon was one of my favorites. Has anybody seen the Italian movie, The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Terrific thriller, like a travelogue of Rome, too. And he was even great in My Mom is a Werewolf. Check out the seduction scene in the petshop.

I also like him a lot in the British movie Night Caller From Outer Space where guys from one of the moons of Jupiter come down to London and pick up fat, ugly English girls by putting personal ads in the London Times.......

And it has a theme song, too.

[quote]it has been a crap year or so for deaths of my favorites. Max von Sydow, Rutger Hauer AND John Saxon?

You like three people no one, even their children, ever heard of.

R149, I'd say you were young, but it's more likely you're just idiotic

The Exorcist, Blade Runner, and Nightmare on Elm Street or not exactly obscure movies

...are not...

The young of today revel in their ignorance.

Those three are not attractive.