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John Phillip Law (September 7, 1937 – May 13, 2008) was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law (also known as Tom Law). He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the 1968 science fiction cult classic anti-war film Barbarella, and as news anchor Robin Stone in the 1971 movie The Love Machine. (The latter reteamed him with Alexandra Hay, his costar from the 1968 “acid comedy” Skidoo.) He also gained attention in the title role of the 1968 thriller Danger: Diabolik and as a Russian sailor stranded in a New England village in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Tall (six-foot-five) and handsome, with steel blue eyes, Law became a male sex symbol in the 1960s. He was a VIP guest at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion and in Hollywood society. While he never achieved superstar status, he became a popular action hero, particularly in the Italian movie market, with movies ranging from science fiction, and fantasy to comedy, westerns, drama, and war movies. Law co-starred in Roger Corman’s 1971 film Von Richthofen and Brown, playing Manfred von Richthofen opposite Don Stroud’s Roy Brown. Corman used Lynn Garrison’s Irish aviation facility, complete with replica World War I aircraft. Garrison taught Law the basics of flying so that he could take off and land, making some of the footage more realistic. Some other of Law’s movies have also become cult classics, including The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Death Rides a Horse and Attack Force Z. Two of Law’s films, Danger: Diabolik and Space Mutiny, were also featured in the movie-mocking TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. In 2001 he appeared in Roman Coppola’s directorial debut CQ, an homage to the Italian spy/sci-fi B-movies in which Law often starred during the 1960s. Law’s final credited film role was in 2008’s Chinaman’s Chance. In his personal life, he was once married to actress Shawn Ryan, with whom he had a daughter named Dawn. His doctors told him in late 2007 that he had pancreatic cancer and only six months to live. Law died May 13, 2008, at his Los Angeles home. His remains were cremated and the ashes remain with his daughter, Dawn and his grandson, Ryan.
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John Phillip Law Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Phillip Law |
| Also Know | John Philip Law |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1937-09-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday | 2008-05-13 |
John Phillip Law Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Danger: Diabolik | Diabolik | 1968-01-24 | International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and e… |
| Strogoff | Michael Strogoff | 1970-10-28 | A captain in the Czar’s army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia…. |
| Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars | Harry Billings | 1992-01-01 | … |
| Attack Force Z | Lieutenant Veitch | 1982-06-01 | Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of Worl… |
| The Three Faces of Terror | Professor Peter Price | 2004-08-20 | In the first story two grave robbers, thieving from an ancient Etruscan burial ground, gets in trouble when one of them tries out a ring which passes … |
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Captain Sinbad | 1973-12-20 | Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the ta… |
| Von Richthofen and Brown | Baron Manfred von Richthofen | 1971-06-30 | Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka “The Red Baron,” and his c… |
| Eyes Behind the Wall | Arturo | 1977-06-07 | The movie starts with a scene of a young man raping and murdering a woman on a train. Later he rents a room from an elderly wheelchair-bound voyeur an… |
| Blood Delirium | Charles Saint Simone | 1988-01-01 | After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her… |
| A Whisper in the Dark | Alex | 1976-08-12 | Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen…. |
| Hijacked to Hell | Ted Barner | 1984-11-30 | Released directly to video, this action film features John Phillip Law as Ted Barner, a low-level employee of a corporation in Indonesia who is charge… |
| Der Schimmelreiter | Deichgraf Hauke Haien | 1978-03-29 | … |
| The Love Machine | Robin Stone | 1971-08-14 | An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion…. |
| Cold Heat | 1989-11-11 | Action film centered around the abduction of a child…. | |
| Doctor Justice | Dr. Benjamin Justice | 1975-12-17 | Based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Je… |
| The Devil’s Bed | 1978-01-01 | A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong op… | |
| The Swinging Lust World of John Philip Law | Himself | The star of cult classics such as Death Rides a Horse, Danger: Diabolik and The Last Movie talks about his life and early film career. Film features a… | |
| Barbarella | Pygar | 1968-10-10 | In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual peop… |
| Space Mutiny | Flight Cmdr. Elijah Kalgan | 1988-01-01 | A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery…. |
| Angel Eyes | Steven Fox | 1993-01-01 | Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an… |
| Moon in Scorpio | Allen | 1987-01-01 | A Vietnam vet with PTSD and his new wife are invited for their honeymoon aboard his war buddy’s yacht along with a third war friend and their girlfrie… |
| Death Rides a Horse | Bill Meceita | 1967-08-31 | Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself co… |
| Wanted | 1. Verfolger | 1999-10-08 | … |
| Alienator | Ward Armstrong | 1990-02-08 | A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict…. |
| Thunder III | Deputy Sheriff | 1988-08-13 | They took his wife… but he’s still Walking Tall, they drew First Blood, but he’s gonna fight back like Billy Jack…. |
| The Sergeant | Pfc. Tom Swanson | 1968-12-20 | THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his … |
| Target of an Assassin | Shannon | 1977-12-10 | … |
| Three Nights of Love | Fra Felice | 1964-10-08 | Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaa… |
| Curse Of The Forty-Niner | Sheriff Murphy | 2002-10-01 | A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they’ve hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who’s Hel… |
| American Commandos | Kelly | 1985-11-11 | A group of Vietnam vets are sent to Southeast Asia to destroy drug-smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle. When they get there, they find that ma… |
| A Case of Honor | Capt. Roger L. Barnes | 1988-01-01 | A Case of Honor is a 1991 film directed by Eddie Romero. After escaping from a Vietnamese pow camp where they had suffered for five years, five Americ… |
| The Pioneers | A.P Karns | 1980-11-30 | Wu Linfang, an immigrant from the mainland to Taiwan more than a hundred years ago, grows from a poor boy to a leader who instructs villagers to open … |
| Ring of Darkness | The Exorcist | 1979-10-29 | Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daugh… |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man | Harry Holt | 1981-08-07 | The Tarzan story from Jane’s point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters… |
| Open Season | Greg | 1974-08-01 | Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn… |
| Hurry Sundown | Rad McDowell | 1967-02-09 | Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major po… |
| The Spiral Staircase | Steven Sherman (as John Philip Law) | 1975-01-31 | A demented killer stalks the streets, preying on young, handicapped women. Where will he strike next? Who will be the next victim? The answers might s… |
| The Overthrow | Shaw | 1987-12-03 | On their way to cover a sporting event in Argentina, reporter John Teller and photographer Bob Norton make a brief stop-off in a Latin America country… |
| Tin Man | Dr. Edison | 1983-01-01 | A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others…. |
| Stardust | John | 1973-11-15 | The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Br… |
| The Mountain of the Lord | Brigham Young | 1993-03-01 | Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers… |
| Hindsight | Vincent Lehman | 1996-01-01 | Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career…. |
| The Hawaiians | Noel Hoxworth | 1970-06-17 | A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties…. |
| Diary of a Telephone Operator | Crispino | 1969-11-06 | Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda’s flat. But Nanda’s priority is above anything e… |
| Your God My Hell | 1976-09-01 | … | |
| The Best Place to Be | Dr. Mancini | 1979-05-27 | A widow’s life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an affair she is having with a much younger man…. |
| Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One | Colonel Barberon | 1990-11-17 | Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life…. |
| Striker | Frank Morris | 1987-01-01 | John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out … |
| Danger: Diabolik – From Fumetti to Film | Self | 2005-06-14 | … |
| Rainy Day Friends | Dr. Stephen Kendrick | 1985-12-20 | A tough street kid from the L.A. barrios is discovered during an examination to have stomach tumors. During his hospitalization, he must learn to cope… |
| Brennendes Herz | Böhme | 1995-01-01 | … |
| Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre | Himself | 2000-01-01 | Director Garry S. Grant’s insightful documentary celebrates the work and legacy of auteur filmmaker Mario Bava, the grand master of Italian horror a… |
| The Harem | 1967-10-06 | A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride…. | |
| Gila and Rik | Alessio | 1987-01-01 | The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagon… |
| The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! | Alexei Kolchin | 1966-05-25 | When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov,… |
| CQ | Chairman | 2001-05-12 | A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationshi… |
| Smog | 1962-10-04 | An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a b… | |
| High Infidelity | Ronald | 1964-01-22 | Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love…. |
| Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown | Maximilian Steiner | 1987-03-20 | A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß…. |
| The Cassandra Crossing | Major Stark | 1976-12-18 | Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train…. |
| Ray of Sunshine | 2006-08-17 | Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling musician who abandoned her … | |
| The Last Movie | Little Brother | 1971-09-29 | After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals…. |
| Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman’s Chance | Foreman Dan | 2008-05-14 | 1870’s America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he’ll have to prove his innocence in a time w… |
| Night Train to Terror | Harry Billings (segment “The Case of Harry Billings”) | 1985-05-01 | God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignet… |
| Nerds of a Feather | (uncredited) | 1989-12-31 | Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-Ame… |
| Skidoo | Stash | 1968-12-19 | Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster “Blue Chips” Packard. When Banks demurs, Go… |
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