John Ashley

John Ashley

  • Highest Rated: 100% The Big Doll House (1971)
  • Lowest Rated: 43% Beach Party (1963)
  • Birthday: Dec 25, 1934
  • Birthplace: Not Available

  • John Ashley should be a familiar name and face to anyone who attended a drive-in double feature in the 1950s. Ashley starred or co-starred in such passion-pit fodder as Hot Rod Gang (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Frankenstein's Daughter (1959) and High School Caesar (1960). In 1961, Ashley co-starred with future Flipper leading man Brian Kelly in the short-lived TV action series Straightaway. Ashley switched his base of operations to the Philippines in the 1960s and 1970s, frequently wearing several hats as actor, producer, director and scriptwriter. Films like Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) may not have been cited at the annual Oscar ceremonies, but they paid the bills many times over for the peripatetic Ashley. In the 1980s, Ashley hooked up with television producer Stephen J. Cannell to work on such series as The A-Team. He later teamed with Frank Lupo to executive or co-executive produce such series as Walker, Texas Ranger (1983), Werewolf (1987) and Something is Out There (1988). In the mid-'90s, Ashley began working as an in-house producer for Tri-Star Television. On October 4, 1997, John Ashley was working on the film Scarred City in New York, when he suffered a fatal heart attack.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

Rating

Title

Credit

Box
Office

Year

No Score Yet Scarred City Executive Producer Producer — 1998
No Score Yet Invisible Mom Herbert Pringle — 1996
No Score Yet Journey to the Center of the Earth Producer — 1993
No Score Yet Will: G. Gordon Liddy Producer — 1982
No Score Yet Coach of the Year Producer — 1980
No Score Yet Sudden Death Actor — 1977
No Score Yet Smoke in the Wind Whipple — 1975
No Score Yet Savage Sisters W. P. Billingsley Producer — 1974
No Score Yet Beyond Atlantis Producer Logan — 1973
No Score Yet Black Mama, White Mama Producer — 1972
No Score Yet Twilight People Producer Matt Farrell — 1972
No Score Yet Mad Doctor of Blood Island (Grave Desires)(Tomb of the Living Dead) Actor — 1972
No Score Yet Woman Hunt Actor — 1972
No Score Yet Beast of Blood Bill — 1971
No Score Yet The Beast of the Yellow Night Producer Joseph Langdon / Philip Rogers — 1971
100% The Big Doll House Executive Producer — 1971
No Score Yet The Double Garden (The Devil Garden) (The Revenge of Dr. X) (Venus Flytrap) Actor — 1970
No Score Yet Mad Doctor of Blood Island Bill Foster — 1969
No Score Yet Brides of Blood Jim Farrell — 1968
93% 2001: A Space Odyssey Ape $0.2M 1968
No Score Yet Island of Living Horror Jim Farrell — 1968
No Score Yet Hell on Wheels Del Robbins — 1967
No Score Yet Sergeant Deadhead Pvt. Filroy — 1965
No Score Yet How to Stuff a Wild Bikini Johnny — 1965
80% Beach Blanket Bingo Steve Gordon — 1965
No Score Yet The Eye Creatures Actor — 1965
No Score Yet Bikini Beach Johnny — 1964
No Score Yet Muscle Beach Party Johnny — 1964
43% Beach Party Ken — 1963
82% Hud Hermy — 1963
No Score Yet High School Caesar Mat Stevens — 1960
No Score Yet Frankenstein's Daughter Johnny Bruder — 1958
No Score Yet How to Make a Monster Guest Star — 1958
No Score Yet Hot Rod Gang John Abernathy III — 1958
No Score Yet Suicide Battalion Pvt. Tommy Novello — 1958
No Score Yet Zero Hour! TV Singer — 1957
No Score Yet Motorcycle Gang Nick — 1957
No Score Yet Dragstrip Girl Fred Armstrong — 1957

TV

Rating

Title

Credit

Year

No Score Yet The A-Team
1983-1987
Producer
  • 1987
  • 1986
  • 1985
  • 1984
  • 1983
No Score Yet The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-1971
Mike Bob Apollo
  • 1967
  • 1966
  • 1963
No Score Yet The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
Keighley
  • 1966
No Score Yet Walker, Texas Ranger
1993-2001
Executive Producer

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