
Acting
John Ashley
Born 1934-12-25 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ashley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Acting credits
7.3Hud 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."
Hud
1963
5.6A 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.
Bikini Beach
1964
5.7Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Muscle Beach Party
1964
6.0Anthropology 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.
Beach Party
1963
6.6In 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.
Zero Hour!
1957
7.3The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
Young Dillinger
1965
4.6Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Frankenstein's Daughter
1958
4.8Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
Brides of Blood
1968
9.0When 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.
Sudden Death
1977
5.3When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965
4.5A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
The Woman Hunt
1972
6.0In 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.
Beach Blanket Bingo
1965
5.7When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
How to Make a Monster
1958
5.1A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
Invisible Mom
1996
3.9A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
Beyond Atlantis
1973
5.3A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
Hot Rod Gang
1958
3.1A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.
The Eye Creatures
1967
4.6A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Twilight People
1972
4.5A 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.
Savage Sisters
1974
6.3Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
Dragstrip Girl
1957
6.3Second 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".
Suicide Battalion
1958
5.2An 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.
Sergeant Deadhead
1965
3.8Satan saves Joseph Ashley from death on the condition that he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
The Beast of the Yellow Night
1971
5.7A 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.
Motorcycle Gang
1957
Behind the camera
5.4When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
Black Mama, White Mama
1973
4.5A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
The Woman Hunt
1972
3.9A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
Beyond Atlantis
1973
4.6A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Twilight People
1972
4.5A 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.
Savage Sisters
1974
9.0Dr. 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.
Black Mamba
1974