John Alderman

Acting

John Alderman

Born — Died

1933-06-06 — 1987-01-12

Place of birth

Syracuse, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

John Alderman was a talented, prolific and ubiquitous actor in numerous low-budget exploitation features who appeared in everything from 1960s softcore items to 1970s drive-in fare to 1980s hardcore porn throughout the course of his long and diverse career.

Known for

Checkmate poster
4.8

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.

Checkmate

1960

The Chevy Mystery Show poster
6.8

The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement.

The Chevy Mystery Show

1960

The Stunt Man poster
6.6

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

The Stunt Man

1980

Escape from the Planet of the Apes poster
6.4

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971

Cannonball poster
5.6

Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.

Cannonball

1976

The Thrill of It All poster
7.1

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

The Thrill of It All

1963

Film credits

1980s · 13 titles

The Stunt Man poster
6.6

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

The Stunt Man

1980

Malibu Express poster
4.8

In this erotic spy tale private eye Cody Abilene teams up with the Contessa Luciana and policewoman Beverly McAfee to infiltrate a mansion and discover who is sending computer secrets to the Russians.

Malibu Express

1985

New Year's Evil poster
4.9

During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.

New Year's Evil

1980

The Baltimore Bullet poster
5.7

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

The Baltimore Bullet

1980

Kung Fu: The Movie poster
5.3

In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor's nephew whom he killed in China, and the third is that he seeks his revenge using the son Caine never knew he had sired as the instrument of his death. It will take all of Caine's skill and wisdom to find a solution to this deadly predicament.

Kung Fu: The Movie

1986

Takin' It All Off poster
4.4

A school for strippers is in trouble. They audition for the owner, and he's pleased, except that the new girl can't make herself take her clothes off. After hypnosis, she's ready, willing, and able, but always strips when she hears music, and threatens the future of the strip school.

Takin' It All Off

1987

Superstition poster
6.0

A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.

Superstition

1982

Angel on My Shoulder poster
6.6

A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.

Angel on My Shoulder

1980

Margin for Murder poster
6.0

Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.

Margin for Murder

1981

Good-bye Cruel World poster
3.3

The story involves newscaster Rodney Pointsetter who is so depressed between his job and his family that he tries to make a film about his life, which he intends to culminate with his own suicide. It is often interrupted with irrelevant comic sketches that an emcee claims that the audience prefers to see.

Good-bye Cruel World

1982

Girls on Fire poster
7.4

John Holmes is back in Girls On fire - They just don't make porn stars like this anymore!! Join the legendary John Holmes and his infamous 14-inch supercock as he uses all of his charms and sexual prowess to pound and pulverize some of the hottest legendary ladies of porn!

Girls on Fire

1984

Co-Ed Fever poster
6.9

A national news magazine publisher decides to do a front-page story on his daughter's sorority.

Co-Ed Fever

1980

Summer Camp Girls poster
7.3

A little rich girl is sent off to summer camp by her Mafioso daddy to hide her from the real world. Little does he know that at Camp Quim, sex wins out over arts and crafts every time.

Summer Camp Girls

1983

1970s · 37 titles

Escape from the Planet of the Apes poster
6.4

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971

Cannonball poster
5.6

Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.

Cannonball

1976

The Last Movie poster
5.7

After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

The Last Movie

1971

Cleopatra Jones poster
5.7

After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.

Cleopatra Jones

1973

Delinquent Schoolgirls poster
4.6

Three mental patients--a bad impersonator, a baseball player, and a gay fashion designer--escape their asylum and sexually assault their way into a girls' private school. The girls' education includes wrestling and karate, so the three madmen will find stern opposition they never expected.

Delinquent Schoolgirls

1975

The Erotic Adventures of Zorro poster
4.0

A local village is being extorted by the evil Luis Bonsario assisted by the short, rotund Sgt. Felipo Latio who takes advantage of young girls while making wisecracks into the camera. Meanwhile, brave swordsman Don Diego is employed by his father to set things straight. By day he poses as a homosexual, donned in pink attire, while at night he assumes his true identity as the masked Zorro, romancing all the pretty ladies and delivering justice.

The Erotic Adventures of Zorro

1972

Drive-In Massacre poster
4.1

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

Drive-In Massacre

1976

The Swinging Barmaids poster
4.7

A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.

The Swinging Barmaids

1975

This Is a Hijack poster
5.4

A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.

This Is a Hijack

1973

Hannah, Queen of the Vampires poster
4.9

Two archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.

Hannah, Queen of the Vampires

1973

Video Vixens! poster
5.1

Video Vixens purports to be a satire of the phony liberalism that resulted in the permissiveness of the 1980s. A libidinous TV executive decides to stage an awards show. But not just any awards show: this one will honor the finest achievements in the world of filmed pornography.

Video Vixens!

1975

Seven poster
5.8

A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

Seven

1979

C.B. Hustlers poster
2.7

A group of prostitutes take their bordello on the road, loading into a van and using their CB radio to inform truckers of when and where they'll be stopping. The fun-loving girls enjoy success with their mobile brothel until they cross the state line into the Bible belt and find themselves under pursuit by the police.

C.B. Hustlers

1976

The Dirty Dolls poster
5.2

Johnny, a psychopath, puts together a gang made up of young teenage girls to commit crimes for him. Everything is going well until one day, during a diamond robbery, the girls are forced to take two hostages and bring them back to the hideout along with the loot. Furious, Johnny wants to kill the hostages so there will be no witnesses, but one of his gang, who happens to be his sister, starts to think that maybe Johnny is going too far.

The Dirty Dolls

1973

Pink Angels poster
5.8

Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch are Michael (John Alderman), David (Tom Basham), Henry (Bob Bihiller), Arnold (Bruce Kimbal), Eddie (Henry Olek) and Ronnie (Maurice Warfield). They're deceptive: although they look like the adventure addicted non-conformists of today out to raise Hell as they brawl their way over countryside and local towns, actually the six are on a different type of trip to the City of the Angels.

Pink Angels

1971

Black Samson poster
5.0

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Black Samson

1974

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst poster
6.5

The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

1979

Joyride to Nowhere poster
4.4

Teenage friends Cindy and Leah have decided to leave their abusive homelives behind, stealing Cindy's father's car and setting out on the road to freedom. On the way, they meet up with a sleazy guy named Tank who invites them up to his place. As Tank showers, the two girls decide to take off, stealing Tank's wallet and his car. His car, however, happens to contain $2 million from a bank job he just pulled off, and Tank is now rather intent on tracking the pair down and reclaiming what's his.

Joyride to Nowhere

1977

A Taste of Decadence poster
NR

A young criminal comes up with a scheme to make a big score. He hides $100,000 worth of heroin in his friend's Porsche and smuggles it from Mexico into the US. His plan succeeds, but then the other members of his gang start getting greedy. Complications ensue.

A Taste of Decadence

1975

Stacey poster
4.5

The sleazy and dangerous adventures of a gorgeous female private detective.

Stacey

1973

The Screaming Woman poster
6.7

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.

The Screaming Woman

1972

Hollywood Man poster
4.9

A film crew struggles to finish a motorcycle-stunt epic despite repeated threats of sabotage from the mob.

Hollywood Man

1976

Nowhere to Hide poster
7.5

A special unit of the U.S. Marshal's Service is assigned to protect a syndicate hitman who is to testify against his former bosses, who have put out a contract on his life.

Nowhere to Hide

1977

Teen-Age Jail Bait poster
8.0

Stranded when their car gets a flat tire, two sexy girls accept help from two hippies in a dune buggy. After sex to repay the favor, the four team up for a robbery at one of the girl's home, but it goes terribly wrong.

Teen-Age Jail Bait

1973

The Black Godfather poster
4.8

The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.

The Black Godfather

1974

Little Miss Innocence poster
4.8

A wealthy older man picks up two teenage hitchhikers, and soon his erotic dream becomes a nightmare.

Little Miss Innocence

1973

Time to Run poster
5.0

A conflicted teen lashes out by vandalizing equipment at the nuclear plant where his father works, then hits the road and finds a spiritual path.

Time to Run

1973

The Hard Road poster
5.0

A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?

The Hard Road

1973

The Alpha Incident poster
3.9

A microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office.

The Alpha Incident

1978

And When She Was Bad... poster
3.3

Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.

And When She Was Bad...

1973

Saddle Tramp Women poster
4.2

Bounty hunters go after a gang of outlaws who raped a cattle rancher's daughter.

Saddle Tramp Women

1972

Trader Hornee poster
4.2

A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.

Trader Hornee

1970

The Boob Tube poster
5.3

In 'Live Action', young psychiatrist Henry Carstairs moves into an apartment building filled with lonely, sex starved women. This soap is interrupted several times by sexy ads.

The Boob Tube

1975

Divorce Las Vegas Style poster
2.0

Details the misadventures of an estranged couple in Vegas preparing for their divorce.

Divorce Las Vegas Style

1970

Diamond Stud poster
4.0

A dramatization about the successful "two-bit chiselling son-of-a-bitch" railroad entrepreneur 'Diamond Jim' Brady. He rides his personal train around the country, smoking cigars, having love affairs and eating too much food.

Diamond Stud

1970

Dandy poster
4.3

Dandy (Cynthia Denny) is a free loving 18 year old girl who has no place to go. Unhappy with her parents and bored with her life, she decides to run off to the big city to try to make it in California. That leads to a series of unfaithful and abusive lovers, posing nude in skin rags, prostitution and more!

Dandy

1970

The Ecstasy Girls poster
5.7

Struggling actor Jerry makes more money as an escort for the rich and famous than he does acting. Wealthy investor J. C. Church hires Jerry to seduce his sister and nieces, in order to have an excuse to disown them.

The Ecstasy Girls

1979

1960s · 9 titles

The Thrill of It All poster
7.1

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

The Thrill of It All

1963

Love Camp 7 poster
4.0

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Love Camp 7

1969

Hot Spur poster
3.8

A deranged stablehand kidnaps the wife of a ranch owner to avenge the rape of his sister.

Hot Spur

1968

Two Roses and a Golden Rod poster
3.5

In this steamy morality play, a Hollywood screenwriter lusts after his beautiful 16-year-old daughter - who reciprocates his feelings - while his wife finds herself torn between her spouse and her lesbian inclinations.

Two Roses and a Golden Rod

1969

The Pick-Up poster
4.9

Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.

The Pick-Up

1968

Starlet! poster
4.6

Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.

Starlet!

1969

The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago poster
4.2

During the Prohibition era, Steve Desmond runs the biggest bootleg liquor distribution operation of Chicago's east side, while dealing with rival Fats Percelli and Temperance Union reformers raiding speakeasies, plus plenty of sex and violence.

The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago

1969

The Animal poster
5.0

A voyeuristic, psychotic obscene telephone caller becomes obsessed with an attractive single mother.

The Animal

1968

Thar She Blows! poster
4.0

A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.

Thar She Blows!

1968

Series credits

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