John AshtonFilmography

Jane Doe: 'til Death Do Us Part

Synopsis: Jane Doe:'Til Death Do Us Part is one of several Hallmark Channel TV-movies starring Lea Thompson as suburban housewife and mom Kathy Davis (Lea Thompson), who unbeknownst to her family occasionally moonlights as an undercover special agent and "problem solver" for the NSA. This time around Read More

Bill's Gun Shop

Actors: Scott Allen Cooper, John Ashton, Victor Rivers, Tom Bower, James Keene

Synopsis: A young gun enthusiast longing for a permit to carry soon finds that wielding a firearm can be a weighty responsibility in a chilling thriller that follows in the tense tradition of Elmore Leonard. Twenty-three year old Dillon McCarthy would like nothing more than a chance to work at Bill's Gun Read More

Avalanche

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R. Lee Ermey, C. Thomas Howell, Geoffrey Lower

Synopsis: Alaskans may be used to a big snowfall every once in a while, but not the sort that hits Juneau in this disaster picture. Jack (C. Thomas Howell), his wife Lia (Caroleen Feeney), and their friend Neil (Thomas Ian Griffith) all work for the Environmental Protection Agency in Juneau, Alaska's Read More

Moosie

Synopsis: A long weekend in the mountains with his family affords a workaholic father and husband the opportunity to reassess his values in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sheri Kaz. Despite begrudgingly agreeing to accompany his wife Laura and young daughter Carla on a weekend trip to the Read More

King of the Hill: Pregnant Paws

Meet the Deedles

Actors: Steve Van Wormer, Paul Walker, A.J. Langer, John Ashton, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Hawaiian surfer dudes Stew (Steve Van Wormer) and Phil Deedle (Paul Walker), fraternal twins, are about to be expelled from school, so their wealthy and concerned father (Eric Braeden) offers summer camp in Wyoming as a solution. Arriving in Jackson Hole with their wet suits, the Deedle twins are Read More

The Shooter

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Randy Travis, Valerie Wildman

Synopsis: US Marshal Mickey Dane is sent back to his native Prague to investigate the assassination of a Cuban UN ambassador. The prime suspect is professional hit woman Simone Rosset, the lesbian co-owner of a posh restaurant there. The other owner is Simone's girl friend. Mickey catches Simone, but then Read More

Hidden Assassin

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, John Ashton, Gavan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Brimming with international intrigue and a love story on the side, this thriller centers on a U.S. Marshall (born in Czechoslovakia) who is assigned to apprehend the beautiful but deadly French assassin the U.S. government suspects killed a Cuban UN ambassador. But as the Marshall and the hit Read More

Fast Money

Actors: Yancy Butler, Matt McCoy, John Ashton, Trevor Goddard, Andy Romano

Synopsis: In this high-speed action drama, a mutual need for transportation forces a car thief and a newspaper journalist, hot on the trail of a corrupt senator, into a stolen car. What neither knows is that one of the briefcases stashed in the truck is filled with money and belongs to a gangster who will Read More

Trapped in Paradise

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, John Ashton, Mädchen Amick

Synopsis: Three brothers who are inept criminals butcher one last attempt to pull off a big heist in this caper comedy. Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage) is sick of thievery and has retired from crime to run an upscale restaurant in New York. But when his two brothers, Alvin (Dana Carvey) and Dave (Jon Lovitz), get Read More

Little Big League

Actors: Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton, Ashley Crow, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: A 12-year old boy inherits the Minnesota Twins in this baseball comedy that is aimed toward younger viewers. Young Billy, a normal twelve-year old, is nuts about baseball and knows almost everything there is to know about the game. He should, his grandfather owns the perennial losers, the Read More

A Letter to Dad

Actors: John Ashton, Corin Nemec, Thom Mathews, Megan Gallivan, Julie McCullough

Synopsis: A painful childhood still haunts Dan Donahue (Thom Mathews), the man at the heart of this moving drama inspired by real events. He is prepared to get married, but he can't move past the absence of his father. Writing a letter to the man proves to be a catharsis, but the real revelation occurs when Read More

A Child's Cry for Help

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub, Cynthia Martells

Synopsis: In this drama, a caring doctor investigates a child's home life and deduces that the boy's bizarre infections are psychosomatic and are directly linked to his mother's mental instability. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tommyknockers

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their Read More

Dirty Work

Actors: Kevin Dobson, John Ashton, Roxann Biggs, Donnelly Rhodes, Jim Byrnes

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable movie, a bail bondsman (John Ashton) deals drugs on the side and thinks he's struck it rich when he conceives a scheme to steal counterfeit money. When the mob comes calling for it, he tries to set up a fellow employee (Kevin Dobson) as the culprit. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

Curly Sue

Actors: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz, Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Read More

Love, Lies & Murder

Actors: Clancy Brown, John Ashton, Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Love, Lies and Murder is based on a true story that began its tragic unspooling on March 19, 1985 in Garden Grove, California. 23-year-old wife and mother Linda Brown is murdered. She leaves behind her computer-consultant husband Clancy Brown, her 17-year-old sister (Sheryl Lee), a 14-year-old Read More

Waterfront Beat [TV Series]

Actors: John Ashton, Rupert Frazer, Gillian Kearney, Geoffrey Leesley, Helena Little

Synopsis: Created by Phil Redmond, the British cop drama Waterfront Beat was set along the docks of Liverpool. John Ashton starred as DCI Don Henderson, head man of the Inner City and Waterfront Division. Henderson's subordinates were well suited to their responsibilities, though the unrelenting grimness of Read More

L.A. Gangs Rising

Synopsis: Gang wars in Los Angeles is the focus of this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I Know My First Name Is Steven

Actors: Luke Edwards, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the two-part TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven tells the tragic story of Steven Stayner. At age seven, Steven was kidnapped by two men who held him captive in a tiny shed for seven years. One of the men, a habitual child abuser named Kenneth Parnell, sexually assaulted Read More

I Want to Go Home

Actors: Adolph Green, Gérard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Read More

Midnight Run

Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the Read More

She's Having a Baby

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom

Synopsis: An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy Read More

Beverly Hills Cop II

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton

Synopsis: Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences with his Beverly Hills superior Bogomil (Ronny Cox), but there's trouble ahead for both men, not to mention two other holdovers from the first Cop film, officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton). Read More

Some Kind of Wonderful

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton

Synopsis: In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit Pretty in Pink, John Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in Some Kind of Wonderful, the story of a sensitive, young would-be artist, Keith (Eric Stoltz), who vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen, Amanda (Lea Thompson) Read More

King Kong Lives

Actors: Peter Anthony Elliott, Brian Kerwin, George Yiasumi, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Maraden

Synopsis: Pandering über-producer Dino De Laurentiis followed his unnecessary 1976 remake of King Kong with this even more pointless sequel ten years later. Though the colossal ape Kong took a half-gainer off the World Trade Center for Jessica Lange at the previous film's climax, we are told at the sequel's Read More

The Last Resort

Actors: Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton, Ellen Blake, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island that just happens to be on the verge of a revolution. Their hotel is not the usual Hilton on the beach but a pick-up joint for singles where the main activities are sex Read More

The Deliberate Stranger

Actors: Mark Harmon, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Mark Harmon stars as baby-faced serial killer Ted Bundy in this sobering 2-part TV movie. Ostensibly the archetypal All-American boy, Bundy was, from 1974 onward, responsible for the rapes and murders of several young women in the Pacific Northwest. The clues begin to mount when one of Bundy's Read More

The A-Team: Cup 'a Joe

Synopsis: The Cup A' Joe is a small family diner owned by Patty Dutton (Lisa Denton) and her parents. Secretly in league with crooked land developers, big-time restauranteur Cactus Jack Slater (John Ashton) is pressuring the Duttons to sell him their diner, using tactics ranging from unfair to lethal. The Read More

A Death in California

Actors: Granville van Dusen, Cheryl Ladd, Sam Elliott, Alexis Smith

Synopsis: Adapted from a book by Joan Barthel, A Death in California is a harrowing two-part TV movie based on fact. Cheryl Ladd plays Hope Masters, a wealthy Beverly Hills woman who is forced to watch in mute horror as a criminal sociopath (Sam Elliot) murders her boyfriend (Granville Van Dusen). She is Read More

Beverly Hills Cop

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Ronny Cox

Synopsis: What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his intention of avenging his friend's murder. Warned by Beverly Hills Read More

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!

Actors: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis: Despite mixed reviews and a disastrous initial release that dumped the film into theaters for a week in the midst of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension went on to become one of the major cult films of the 1980s, developing a rabid following after Read More

Honky Tonk Freeway

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

Synopsis: TV movies dealing with Elvis Presley are always good for a few vital extra rating points, and Elvis and the Beauty Queen was no exception to this rule. The King, here played by Don Johnson, is first seen here at the age of 37. Elvis falls in love with 21-year-old Miss Universe contestant Linda Read More

Borderline

Actors: Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner, Enrique J. Castillo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson switches from his traditional role as a vigilante to playing an actual lawman in this crime drama. Jeb Maynard (Bronson) is a border patrol agent who is trying to stem the tide of illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Jeb is hot on the trail of Hotchkiss (Ed Harris), a Read More

Breaking Away

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Paul Dooley, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley -- coasting between high school and deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The four friends are snobbishly looked down upon Read More

M*A*S*H: Last Laugh

Synopsis: This episode begins on a serious note, as B.J. (Mike Farrell) receives word that he is the target of a military investigation. Before long, however, tension has segued into laughter as Hawkeye (Alan Alda) merrily engages in a battle of practical jokes against his old pal Bardonaro (James Read More

Oh, God!

Actors: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God (George Burns) to spread the Word to the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is soon labelled a basket case: even his loving Read More

The Rhinemann Exchange

Actors: Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of Read More

Kojak: Mojo

Synopsis: In one of his occasional undercover assignments, Kojak (Telly Savalas) poses as a chemist. It's all part of a plan to flush out a gang of crooks who have stolen a valuable shipment of morphine in order to sell it back to the rightful owners for an exorbitant price. Naturally, Kojak pretends to be Read More

The Psychopath

Synopsis: In this violent and blood-soaked horror outing, the kindly host of a popular kiddie show has a secret life as the psycho avenger of children's rights who murders the parents who abuse them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More