John AshleyFilmography

Scarred City

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Tia Carrere, Gary Dourdan, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: Trace (Stephen Baldwin) is a cop who's just been assigned to a new unit led by Lt. Devon (Chazz Palminteri). Trace is alarmed at the tactics of his new partners, who shoot criminals to kill without warning and take bets on who will kill the primary target. The unit turns out to be a team assembled Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kim Miyori, John Neville, Jeffrey Nordling, Farrah Forke, Tim Russ

Synopsis: A scientific expedition to the earth's center goes awry, leaving the explorers marooned in a fantastic underground world. Adapted from Jules Verne's classic adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: Karate-champion-turned-movie-star Chuck Norris was ideally cast as the title character in the contemporary Western series, Walker, Texas Ranger. Introduced as a two-hour TV movie on April 21, 1983, the weekly, hour-long CBS series starred Norris as Cordell Walker, who worked out of the Dallas Read More

Manila Open City

Coach of the Year

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Coach of the Year is the pilot film for a potential Robert Conrad TV series. Conrad plays Jim Brandon, formerly a star athlete, now a wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet. The embittered, self-involved Brandon is hired to coach a team of teenagers at a correctional facility. Once he's "reached" these Read More

Sudden Death

Synopsis: In this violent drama a pair of thugs become professional killers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Smoke in the Wind

Synopsis: This western chronicles the struggle of a post-Civil War mountain family to prove that they did not betray the Confederate side during the conflict. The film contains the last film appearance of Walter Brennan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Savage Sisters

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this actioner, three courageous female revolutionaries on a South American island grab their rifles and begin searching for a clever bandit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Mama, White Mama

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jess Ramos

Synopsis: Two female prisoners, one black and one white attempt to escape a women's reformatory in this violent exploitation film that is a cheap knock- off of The Defiant Ones. The black woman is in for prostitution while her blonde counterpart was involved with a radical group. They escape after lesbian Read More

Beyond Atlantis

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A few treasure-seekers try their luck on a tropical island and find a lost--well undocumented, anyway--civilization that has interesting marine capabilities and an unusual way of life. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Mamba

Twighlight People

Synopsis: John Ashley stars in Twighlight People. Eddie Romero is director of Twilight People. Applying Socratic logic, we can conclude that Twighlight People was lensed in the Philippines. And we're right; but what we don't know is why the title is mispelled (at least in many sources). Oh, the plot? A mad Read More

The Woman Hunt

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This is a Filipino version of the oft-filmed Most Dangerous Game. In this one, the hunted are semi-clad women kidnapped by a sicko lesbian and pursued by a crazed hunter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Twilight People

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Dashing adventurer Matt Farrell (John Ashley) is captured and taken to a remote island in the South Pacific, where he is meant to become the newest victim of Dr. Gordon (Charles Macaulay), a mad scientist who is crossing humans and animals in an attempt to create a race of "superbeings." The Read More

The Revenge of Dr. X

Synopsis: Dr. Bragan (James Craig) is a workaholic rocket scientist with NASA who is coming unglued from the stress. A colleague arranges for him to take a much needed holiday in Japan, and Bragan accepts, hoping to use this free time to pursue his first love, botany. He brings a potted Venus Flytrap with Read More

Beast of the Yellow Night

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Roger Corman's New World Pictures distributed this seedy Filipino monster mess about a lecherous American soldier (John Ashley, no stranger to Filipino horror films) who saves his miserable hide during World War II by selling his soul to Satan. Everything works out fine until some years later Read More

Beast of Blood

Actors: Eddie Garcia

Synopsis: Another fun-filled voyage to Blood Island, courtesy of writer-producer-director (and otherwise-hyphenated) Filipino horror guru Eddie Romero, and John Ashley, the frequent "star" of these South Seas monster epics -- meaning the camera is usually pointed in his general direction amid the usual Read More

The Mad Doctor of Blood Island

Synopsis: This Filipino scarefest is better known by the title Mad Doctor of Blood Island. The principle villain, however, is not a "he" but an "it". A frantic search is conducted on a remote island for a deadly, green-blooded "Chlorophyl Monster." Notice how we aren't making any toothpaste jokes here. It Read More

Brides of Blood

Synopsis: The Philippine splatterfest Brides of Blood has also been released as Brides of the Beast, Island of Living Horror and Grave Desires. You get the idea. Anyway, the resident monsters are the spawn of nuclear radiation. These horrid creatures prey upon beautiful, undressed women; they have sex with Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Mr. Universe Muscles In

Synopsis: Dave Draper, Mr. Universe of 1967, appears in this episode. As part of a scheme to lure the Clampett account to his bank, Mr. Cushing (Roy Roberts) arranges a date between Draper and Elly May. The hapless muscleman finds himself at the mercy of "Doctor" Granny, who believes that his bulging biceps Read More

Hell on Wheels

Actors: Marty Robbins, John Ashley, Robert Dornan

Synopsis: Del (John Ashley) is an auto mechanic who leaves his brother Marty (Marty Robbins) to open his own business in this routine action drama. The brothers are kidnapped when Del is chased by federal agents for running moonshine. Marty races stock cars during the day and sings at night. How else could Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Cat Burglar

Synopsis: The Clampetts are warned that a cat burglar is on the prowl in their Beverly Hills neighborhood. Jumping to the obvious conclusion, Elly May fills the Clampett mansion with every stray feline that she can get her hands on. Beach-movie regular John Ashley is cast as Mike the burglar, with Disney Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Actors: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Beverly Adams

Synopsis: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) back at the beach. He makes a deal with an Read More

Beach Blanket Bingo

Actors: Earl Wilson, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Marta Kristen, Linda Evans, Timothy Carey, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde

Synopsis: Part of American-International's "Beach Party" series, Beach Blanket Bingo was directed by William Asher. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) briefly deserts Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) in favor of pop star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Also around and about is a mermaid, appropriately named Lorelei (Marta Kristen Read More

Young Dillinger

Actors: Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, John Ashley, Dan Terranova, Victor Buono

Synopsis: This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the most ruthless mobsters of the 1930s. The tale begins as Dillinger and his girlfriend try to rob her daddy's safe and get caught red-handed. Dillinger takes the fall and goes to Read More

The Eye Creatures

Synopsis: The Eye Creatures don't really attack anybody, but are attacked by a band of hostile teenagers. It all begins when the creatures, acting out of self-preservation, try to pin the blame for an accidental killing on an innocent Earthling. Star John Ashley sagaciously retreated to the Read More

Bikini Beach

Actors: Boris Karloff, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: The Beach Party gang is back in this third episode. This time out, the gang is visited by the handsome British pop star Potato Bug (Frankie Avalon in a dual role) who has come to CA for a little r&r. When Potato Bug sees the perky Dee Dee (Annette Funicello), he falls head over heels. This doesn't Read More

Muscle Beach Party

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party. Surfing sensations Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) have their security threatened when Flex Martian (Rock Stevens) and a collection of well-oiled Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Elly Becomes a Secretary

Synopsis: When Jane Hathaway calls in sick, the Clampetts drop in at the Commerce Bank to help out Mr. Drysdale. The thing is -- their visit coincides with Drysdale's efforts to win the Banker of the Year award. You guessed it: The judges mistake Jed for Drysdale, and then -- weeeee-doggies!!!! Cult-film Read More

Beach Party

Actors: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: Professor Bob Cummings is an anthropologist who uses a telescope to study the mating habits of teenagers, namely Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. However, Cummings' secretary Dorothy Malone wishes that his boss would get his mind off bikinis and surfers. Meanwhile trouble brews when Eric Von Read More

Petticoat Junction: Spur Line to Shady Rest

Synopsis: The first episode of Petticoat Junction (NOT the pilot film, since no pilot was ever made!) finds C & F.W Railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) dispatching his vice-president Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) to the tiny community of Hooterville, there to find out why one of the railroad's Read More

Hud

Actors: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde, John Ashley, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon (Newman Read More

Suicide Battalion (1958) / Hell Squad

Synopsis: This video offers a double dose of war dramas. The first Suicide Battalion chronicles the courage of two GIs who risk everything to cross enemy lines and bring back secret documents from an outpost overrun by the enemy. The second Hell Squad follows the exploits of five Yankee soldiers who must Read More

Hot Rod Gang

Actors: John Ashley, Jody Fair, Gene Vincent, Steve Drexel, Henry McCann

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will only bequeath him their fortune if he behaves like a proper gentleman. His aunts would have apoplexy if they new that their "perfect gentleman" had created a hot-rod club Read More

How to Make a Monster

Actors: Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway, Paul Brinegar, Gary Clarke, Malcolm Atterbury

Synopsis: Like many American International films of its era, How to Make a Monster was sold to distributors on the basis of its title alone: only after theatrical play dates had been established did anyone get around to writing a script! Robert H. Harris plays Pete Drummond, who according to the script has Read More

Frankenstein's Daughter

Synopsis: Frankenstein's Daughter, a low-budget American horror movie badly directed by Richard E. Cunha, is another in a series of poorly made adaptations of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel. Here, the original Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, Oliver Frankenstein (Donald Murphy), now living in Los Angeles Read More

Suicide Battalion

Actors: Michael Connors, John Ashley, Russ Bender, Scott Peters

Synopsis: American-International's Suicide Battalion was filmed virtually simultaneously with the studio's Jet Attack; both films were originally released on a double bill. Michael Connors plays Lt. Matt McCormick, who leads the eponymous battalion on a suicide mission in the Philippines during WW II. Their Read More

Motorcycle Gang

Actors: Anne Neyland, Steve Terrell, John Ashley, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: The title tells practically all in the American-International exploitationer Motorcycle Gang. The film's main conflict arises from the rivalry between "good" cyclist Randy (Steve Tyrrell) and his "bad" counterpart Nick (John Ashley). Recently released from a jail term, Nick forces Randy (who Read More

Zero Hour

Actors: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone

Synopsis: This suspenseful air-borne adventure can rightfully lay claim to being the Mother of All subsequent in-flight disaster films of the '70s. The trouble begins when the pilot and crew of a Canadian passenger plane suddenly find themselves doubled over from accidental ptomaine poisoning and unable to Read More

Dragstrip Girl

Actors: Fay Spain, Steve Terrell, John Ashley, Frank Gorshin, Russ Bender

Synopsis: Originally double-billed with Rock All Night, Dragstrip Girl is a typical J.D. potboiler from American-International. The title character, played by Fay Spain, is insatiable in her search for new thrills. Fay derives great pleasure in playing her two boyfriends, garage mechanic Steve Terrell and Read More

High School Caesar

Actors: John Ashley, Gary Vinson

Synopsis: When insecure rich-type Stevens (John Ashley) decides to impress his fellow students, he does so by establishing a crime empire to take command of his high school. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More