John Ashley

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

Hud poster
7.3

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."

Hud

1963

Bikini Beach poster
5.6

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.

Bikini Beach

1964

Muscle Beach Party poster
5.7

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.

Muscle Beach Party

1964

Beach Party poster
6.0

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.

Beach Party

1963

Zero Hour! poster
6.6

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.

Zero Hour!

1957

Young Dillinger poster
7.3

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.

Young Dillinger

1965

Frankenstein's Daughter poster
4.6

Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.

Frankenstein's Daughter

1958

Brides of Blood poster
4.8

Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.

Brides of Blood

1968

Sudden Death poster
9.0

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.

Sudden Death

1977

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini poster
5.3

When 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

The Woman Hunt poster
4.5

A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

The Woman Hunt

1972

Beach Blanket Bingo poster
6.0

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.

Beach Blanket Bingo

1965

How to Make a Monster poster
5.7

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.

How to Make a Monster

1958

Invisible Mom poster
5.1

A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.

Invisible Mom

1996

Beyond Atlantis poster
3.9

A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.

Beyond Atlantis

1973

Hot Rod Gang poster
5.3

A 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

The Eye Creatures poster
3.1

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.

The Eye Creatures

1967

The Twilight People poster
4.6

A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.

The Twilight People

1972

Savage Sisters poster
4.5

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.

Savage Sisters

1974

Dragstrip Girl poster
6.3

Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.

Dragstrip Girl

1957

Suicide Battalion poster
6.3

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".

Suicide Battalion

1958

Sergeant Deadhead poster
5.2

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.

Sergeant Deadhead

1965

The Beast of the Yellow Night poster
3.8

Satan 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

Motorcycle Gang poster
5.7

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.

Motorcycle Gang

1957

Behind the camera