John Saxon, Actor From Nightmare on Elm Street and Enter the Dragon, Dies at 83

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John Saxon, Actor From Nightmare on Elm Street and Enter the Dragon, Dies at 83

John Saxon from Nightmare on Elm Street and Enter the Dragon has died at the age of 83. The family told The Hollywood Reporter that the cause of death was pneumonia. Saxon won a Golden Globe for his work alongside Marlon Brando in The Appaloosa in 1966. Along with those roles, he popped up numerous times on ABC’s Dynasty as the modern era of daytime soap operas came into form. His two most prominent roles had to be in the Bruce Lee film and Wes Craven’s wildly popular franchise. He played a gambler in the midst of real fighting champions during the 1973 martial arts masterpiece. In Elm Street, he played Donald Thompson, a police officer that ran up against Freddy Krueger’s skeleton one too many times.

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