Is a movie automatically better if John Saxon is in it?

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To definitively answer the question, yes, and RIP

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-saxon-dead-enter-dragon-nightmare-elm-street-actor-was-83-1095778

I absolutely love this bit from the story which makes it sound the origin tale of a street level Green Arrow:

He was born Carmine Orrico on Aug. 5, 1936, the eldest of three children of an Italian immigrant house painter. While in high school, he worked as a spieler at a Coney Island archery concession, becoming proficient with the bow and arrow.

"Brooklyn was a tough place to grow up in, but it taught you survival, and if you were ambitious, it taught you to want better things," he once said.

Letterboxd says i've seen him in 4 movies, and i couldn't tell you what he did in any of them, not even EtD or Elm Street.

B-b-but surely you remember him in that one Gene Roddenberry pilot.

lol i think i started to watch Planet Earth and turned it off midway

I remember the next morning going over the plot with a fine tooth comb with a fellow crossing guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_a_8RWxuk

ah man rip

My favorite Saxon movie will always be Enter the Dragon because I saw it like 20 times on Saturday night tv as a kid (and will still rewatch it now). The yellow kit in Technicolor! Iconic.

After seeing the trailer many times, I've always kinda wanted to see Blood Beach, which Saxon no doubt improved. RIP.

RP. Didn't know about his Italian heritage before, no wonder he turns up in so many Italian exploitation movies. Liked the way he could play hero or villain. Most recently caught him in a couple of cool Maurizio Merli poliziotteschi - A Special Copy in Action and The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist- where he's reliably great as a badass mob boss.

Love him in The Girl Who Knew Too Much.

I loved this guy from Enter the Dragon, I remember being really excited watching an A-Team episode as a kid and noticing that "it's that guy!"

i love him handicapping his own match during ETD

Wasn't he in a Wonder Woman episode playing a Nazi invader of Paradise Island?

because i’m me my main experience of john saxon is in black christmas and the nightmare on elm street movies, but he is sooooooooooo good in the nightmare movies, especially new nightmare

before I knew he was a big deal and I saw Nightmare the first time, I was like "this guy's acting is too good for this movie"

he was great faking his way through the fight scenes in Enter the Dragon and playing straight man to Lee and Jim Kelly

he's also good in Bava's Evil Eye/The Girl Who Knew Too Much, footnote-worthy as the first giallo film