John Ashley

John Ashley

Born: December 25, 1934
Died: October 3, 1997
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John Ashley (December 25, 1934, Kansas City, Missouri – October 3, 1997) was an actor who appeared in many films, most notably the American International Pictures' "Beach Party" films. In the 1961–1962 television season, he appeared with costar Brian Kelly on ABC's Straightaway a half-hour series about auto racing which ran on Friday evenings.

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Monster Invaders from Space
Title: Monster Invaders from Space
Character: Stan Kenyon (archive footage)
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
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Invisible Mom
Title: Invisible Mom
Character: Herbert Pringle
Released: February 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
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Sudden Death
Title: Sudden Death
Character: John Shaw
Released: May 1, 1977
Type: Movie
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.
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Smoke In The Wind
Title: Smoke In The Wind
Character: Whipple Mondier
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
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Savage Sisters
Title: Savage Sisters
Character: W. P. Billingsley
Released: July 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.
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Black Mamba
Title: Black Mamba
Character: Dr. Paul Morgan
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Dr. Paul Morgan is stunned to discover witchcraft and voodoo being practiced in the 20th century. while treating the citizens of a small village in the Philippines, Morgan falls for pretty young widow Elena, who becomes the target of a black witch who has swiped a valuable ring from the grave of Elena's late husband. (IMDb)
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Beyond Atlantis
Title: Beyond Atlantis
Character: Logan
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
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The Woman Hunt
Title: The Woman Hunt
Character: Tony
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
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Twilight People
Title: Twilight People
Character: Matt Farrell
Released: June 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
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The Beast of the Yellow Night
Title: The Beast of the Yellow Night
Character: Joseph Langdon / Philip Rogers
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Satan saves Joseph Ashley from death on the condition that he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
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Beast of Blood
Title: Beast of Blood
Character: Dr. Bill Foster
Released: May 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented.
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island
Title: Mad Doctor of Blood Island
Character: Dr. Bill Foster
Released: September 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
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Brides of Blood
Title: Brides of Blood
Character: Jim Farrell
Released: May 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
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Manila, Open City
Title: Manila, Open City
Character: U.S. Medic
Released: January 13, 1968
Type: Movie
War drama set in the closing stages of World War Two. As Allied Forces are nearing the defeat of the Japanese Army in Manila, the Japanese Empire's soldiers begin attacking innocent civilians. A brutal month-long battle ensues.
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The Eye Creatures
Title: The Eye Creatures
Character: Stan Kenyon
Released: October 20, 1967
Type: Movie
A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.
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Hell on Wheels
Title: Hell on Wheels
Character: Del Robbins
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend
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Title: The Wild Wild West
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
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Sergeant Deadhead
Title: Sergeant Deadhead
Character: Airman Filroy
Released: August 18, 1965
Type: Movie
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Title: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Character: Johnny
Released: July 14, 1965
Type: Movie
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
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Young Dillinger
Title: Young Dillinger
Character: 'Baby Face' Nelson
Released: April 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
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Beach Blanket Bingo
Title: Beach Blanket Bingo
Character: Steve Gordon
Released: April 14, 1965
Type: Movie
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
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Bikini Beach
Title: Bikini Beach
Character: Johnny
Released: July 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
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Muscle Beach Party
Title: Muscle Beach Party
Character: Johnny
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Fred
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Beach Party
Title: Beach Party
Character: Ken
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
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Hud
Title: Hud
Character: Hermy
Released: May 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Troy Apollo
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Bob Billington
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: Straightaway
Character: Clipper Hamilton
Released: October 6, 1961
Type: TV
Straightaway is a 26-week half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired on ABC during the 1961–1962 season – the story of two young men who operate a garage and engage in auto racing. John Ashley and Brian Kelly played race car designers Clipper Hamilton and Scott Ross, respectively. Scott designs the vehicles, and Clipper is the mechanic. Asa Maynor was cast in four episodes as Dixie. Most episodes center on the clients who bring a race car to the Straightaway Garage. The series was originally planned to be named “The Racers”, but the title had to be altered because of sponsor problems. Straightaway ran at 7:30 Eastern on Fridays opposite CBS’s Rawhide with Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming. Straightaway was moved to Wednesdays effective January 10, 1962, for the remainder of its brief run.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Mitch
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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High School Caesar
Title: High School Caesar
Character: Matt Stevens
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.
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Frankenstein's Daughter
Title: Frankenstein's Daughter
Character: Johnny Bruder
Released: December 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
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Hot Rod Gang
Title: Hot Rod Gang
Character: John Abernathy III
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
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How to Make a Monster
Title: How to Make a Monster
Character: Himself
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
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Suicide Battalion
Title: Suicide Battalion
Character: Tommy Novello
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
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Zero Hour!
Title: Zero Hour!
Character: TV Singer
Released: November 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
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Motorcycle Gang
Title: Motorcycle Gang
Character: Nick Rogers
Released: October 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.
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Dragstrip Girl
Title: Dragstrip Girl
Character: Fred Armstrong
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Ken Clarkson
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.