John Saxon Net Worth

John Saxon's Quotes

• [on Sandra Dee] I think I quickly perceived that Sandra was also a fish out of water in this respect. She had been a model in New York, I discovered. But I could sense that she was young. She clearly had a facility about acting; she had a great knack, a technique of acting. She knew timing. She knew changes. She knew where all the points were, but now I have a feeling that she actually didn't know where they were in a sense. She assumed. What I think is that both of us were making an approximation of what it was all about, this American boy and girl next door. In some respects, we shared something. It was an uncanny sense of what was desired of us more than what we really understood.

Interesting Facts about John Saxon

1. Was a celebrity player (along with Betty White) on the final week of the cult-classic game show Whew! (1979) (when the show was known as "Celebrity Whew!").
2. Was discovered by Henry Willson who saw him in a posed shot on the cover of True Romances magazine.
3. Had a black belt in karate.
4. Had one son with his former wife Mary Ann Saxon: Antonio Saxon.
5. Was fluent in Italian. He worked on and off in that country since the early 1960s.
6. He was the son of Anna (Protettore), an Italian immigrant, and Antonio Orrico, who was born in New York, to Italian parents. John had roots in Calabria.
7. Attended and graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1953.
8. Attended the Williamsburg Film Festival in Williamsburg, Virginia. [March 2012]
9. He starred in two films about Genghis Khan: Gengis Khan (1992) and Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2010).
10. He starred in four films which feature the word "Blood": The Night Caller (1965), Queen of Blood (1966), Blood Beach (1980) and Blood Salvage (1990).
11. Acting mentor and friend of Heather Langenkamp.
12. He was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
13. Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
14. He was proficient in archery due to his job during high school working at a Coney Island archery concession as a spieler.
15. One day when he was cutting class he was discovered by a male model agent while leaving the local movie house. He went on to model for magazine covers like True Romances which led to his Hollywood career.
16. Studied dramatics for six months with Betty Cashman at Carnegie Hall before he flew to Hollywood where he was quickly signed by Universal and attended the studio's workshop for 18 months.
17. Upon his death, he was cremated and his ashes returned to his family.
18. According to his partner and his son, Saxon was 83 at the time of his death, which confirms that he was born in 1936, not the widely quoted 1935.
19. Co-starred with Sandra Dee in three films: The Restless Years (1958), Het weerspannige bakvisje (1958), and Portrait in Black (1960). In 1991, they co-starred in the play "Love Letters".
20. Had a grandson as well as a great-grandchild.