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John Ashley

Highest Rated: 100% The Big Doll House (1971)

Lowest Rated: 40% Bikini Beach (1964)

Birthday: Dec 25, 1934

Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

An American actor who, after a long apprenticeship in schlock cinema, effectively switched to a second career in primetime TV series production, Ashley began his acting career in the late 1950s when he essayed roles in such less-than-memorable films (mostly for American International Pictures) as "Hot Rod Gang" (1958), "Suicide Battalion," "Frankenstein's Daughter" and "How to Make a Monster" (all 1958). Continuing with AIP into the 60s he played second leads in several of the studio's "beach party" movies, including "Muscle Beach Party," "Bikini Beach" (both 1964) and "Beach Blanket Bingo" (1965), which co-starred his wife at that time, Deborah Walley.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 51% The Big Doll House
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86% 89% Hud Watchlist
70% 52% Beach Blanket Bingo
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50% 41% Beach Party
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40% 41% Bikini Beach
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27% Invisible Mom
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14% Beast of the Yellow Night
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20% Motorcycle Gang
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Young Dillinger
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83% The A-Team
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Invisible Mom 27% 1997 Herbert Pringle Actor Journey to the Center of the Earth 22% 1993 Producer Dark Avenger 1990 Executive Producer Police Story: Gladiator School 1988 Executive Producer The A-Team 83% 1983 Producer Coach of the Year 36% 1980 Producer Sudden Death 1977 Actor Smoke in the Wind 1975 Whipple Mondier Actor Black Mamba 1974 Dr. Paul Morgan Actor Savage Sisters 1974 W. P. Billingsley Actor, Producer Beyond Atlantis 20% 1973 Logan Actor, Producer Black Mama, White Mama 38% 1972 Producer Twilight People 18% 1972 Matt Farrell Actor, Producer The Twilight People 1972 Actor, Producer The Big Doll House 100% 51% 1971 Producer Beast of the Yellow Night 14% 1970 Joseph Langdon/Philip Rogers Actor Beast of the Dead 60% 1970 Dr. Bill Foster Actor Tomb of the Living Dead 17% 1969 Dr. Bill Foster Actor Brides of Blood 44% 1968 Jim Farrell Actor Manila, Open City 1968 Actor Hell on Wheels 50% 1967 Del Robbins Actor Sergeant Deadhead 0% 1965 Airman Filroy Actor The Eye Creatures 4% 1965 Stan Kenyon Actor How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 33% 1965 Johnny Actor Beach Blanket Bingo 70% 52% 1965 Steve Gordon Actor
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