John Ashley
Biography: 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
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Birthday: December 25, 1934
Deathday: October 03, 1997
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Hud
1963-05-28
Hud
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-28
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965-07-14
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Overview: When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Beach Blanket Bingo
1965-04-14
Beach Blanket Bingo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Dragstrip Girl
1957-04-24
Dragstrip Girl
Overview: Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-24
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The Eye Creatures
1967-10-20
The Eye Creatures
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-20
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Frankenstein's Daughter
1958-12-15
Frankenstein's Daughter
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-15
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island
1969-09-18
Mad Doctor of Blood Island
Overview: A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-18
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Sergeant Deadhead
1965-08-18
Sergeant Deadhead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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Beast of Blood
1970-05-06
Beast of Blood
Overview: A mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Twilight People
1972-06-01
Twilight People
Overview: A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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The Beast of the Yellow Night
1971-04-07
The Beast of the Yellow Night
Overview: Satan saves Joseph Ashley from death on the condition that he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Beyond Atlantis
1973-09-01
Beyond Atlantis
Overview: A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Brides of Blood
1968-05-29
Brides of Blood
Overview: Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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Suicide Battalion
1958-02-28
Suicide Battalion
Overview: 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".
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Hell on Wheels
1967-09-01
Hell on Wheels
Overview: Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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The Woman Hunt
1972-11-01
The Woman Hunt
Overview: A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Hot Rod Gang
1958-08-01
Hot Rod Gang
Overview: A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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High School Caesar
1960-11-01
High School Caesar
Overview: Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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How to Make a Monster
1958-07-01
How to Make a Monster
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Young Dillinger
1965-04-28
Young Dillinger
Overview: The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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Motorcycle Gang
1957-10-22
Motorcycle Gang
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Sudden Death
1977-05-01
Sudden Death
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Savage Sisters
1974-07-01
Savage Sisters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-01
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Muscle Beach Party
1964-03-25
Muscle Beach Party
Overview: Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Manila, Open City
1968-01-13
Manila, Open City
Overview: War drama set in the closing stages of World War Two. As Allied Forces are nearing the defeat of the Japanese Army in Manila, the Japanese Empire's soldiers begin attacking innocent civilians. A brutal month-long battle ensues.
Genres: History Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Zero Hour!
1957-11-13
Zero Hour!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Black Mamba
1974-01-01
Black Mamba
Overview: Dr. Paul Morgan is stunned to discover witchcraft and voodoo being practiced in the 20th century. while treating the citizens of a small village in the Philippines, Morgan falls for pretty young widow Elena, who becomes the target of a black witch who has swiped a valuable ring from the grave of Elena's late husband.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Invisible Mom
1996-02-29
Invisible Mom
Overview: A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-29
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Bikini Beach
1964-07-22
Bikini Beach
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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Beach Party
1963-08-07
Beach Party
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Monster Invaders from Space
2018-08-30
Monster Invaders from Space
Overview: Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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Smoke In The Wind
1975-04-01
Smoke In The Wind
Overview: The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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