John Ashley Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Girlfriend(s), Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
John Atchley
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Tuesday
BIRTHPLACE
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
DIED AT AGE
62 Years 9 Months 9 Days
DEATHDATE
October 3, 1997
DEATHPLACE
New York City, United States
CAUSE OF DEATH
Heart attack
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
CAPRICORN
ALSO NOTED FOR
Producer, Singer
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
Fame & Address
DEBUT
Dragstrip Girl (Film 1957)
FAMOUS FROM/AS
The A-Team (TV Series 1983)
Education, Net Worth & More
SCHOOLING FROM
COLLEGE
Oklahoma State University
More Information
Career of John Ashley
Acting
He auditioned for a role in Dragstrip Girl at American International Pictures and they signed him to a four-picture non-exclusive contract. He also appeared in several beach party movies like Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. He has done many films with Eddie Romero including Brides of Blood, Hell on Wheels.
Television
When his contract with AIP ended up, he appeared in many television shows. Some of them are Henry Fonda show The Deputy, The Millionaire, and Wagon Train. He had also starred in High School Caesar and guest appeared in Death Valley Days. He also co-starred in ABC adventure series Straightaway with Brian Kelly in the period of 1961 to 1962.
Music career
Besides acting, he was also a good singer and has recorded many records including "Seriously in Love", "Let the Good Times Roll", "Born to Rock", "The Hangman" and "Little Lou". The collection of his music was released in 2011 as Born to Rock by the German label Hydra Records. In the film Hot Rod Gang, he has sung many songs and played as himself.
Producer
He founded a company with Romero called Four Associates Ltd and its first film was Beast of the Yellow Night which was released in 1971. He was an executive producer of The Big Doll House and this film gain a huge success. After that, he produces many films like The Woman Hunt, Black Mama White Mama, Black Mamba.
Some Lesser Known Facts About John Ashley
- Did John Ashley takes alcohol? Yes.
- He does not know anything about his real parents as he was adopted when he was an infant of few months.
- He got his first role when he was on a trip from his college. John Wayne was very impressed by his looks and introduced him to William Castle who landed him in his TV anthology series Men of Annapolis.
- He auditioned for a lead role in 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' but did not get the role.
- He had worked in the army in the Presidio in San Francisco only for six months and left the job to appear in a war film Suicide Battalion.
- He had performed a small role on Paramount's Zero Hour! in 1957. He was a singer in it and also given cameo as a singer in AIP's How to Make a Monster.
- A role was offered to him in an episode "The Alleyway" of the TV series Matinee Theatre but Samuel Arkoff of AIP did not allow him to do so as it required to shift the schedule of the shooting of a movie. He was very upset with that.
- He announced to stare a beach party movie The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini but does not appear in it.
- He accepted the offer of Eddie Romero to make a film in the Philippines just because he was upset with break up of his marriage with Walley and want to go out of the country to take a relief.
- Was John Ashley in the habit of Smoking? NA.
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