{"id":3445,"date":"2024-08-05T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2024-10-11T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T13:33:36","slug":"happy-birthday-john-saxon-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/08\/happy-birthday-john-saxon-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus John Saxon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">August 5, 1935 \u2013 July 25, 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, New York; Mr. Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in movies and television \u2014 has shared the big screen with the legendary Bruce Lee in the martial arts masterclass Enter the Dragon (1973); and also faced off against the Queen of Blood in Creature Double Feature&#8217;s PLANET OF BLOOD (1966), as well as Freddy Krueger, Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote), Magnum, P.I., The A-Team and many, many more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2038\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"John Saxon photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 5, 1935 \u2013 July 25, 2020 Born Carmine Orrico in Brooklyn, New York; Mr. Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in movies and television \u2014 has shared the big screen with the legendary Bruce Lee in the martial arts masterclass Enter the Dragon (1973); and also faced off against the Queen of Blood in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,580,32,291,507],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-enterthedragon","tag-happybirthday","tag-johnsaxon","tag-queenofblood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/John-Saxon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}