
John Phillip Law
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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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.059 |
Birthday | 1937-09-07 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | John Philip Law, |

1979

Ring of Darkness
5.1/8
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...
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Ring of Darkness

1968

Danger: Diabolik
6.322/216
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...
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Danger: Diabolik

1970

Strogoff
5.3/3
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.
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Strogoff

1968

Barbarella
6/749
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...
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Barbarella

1966

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
6.4/110
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,...
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1976

The Cassandra Crossing
6.3/211
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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The Cassandra Crossing

1988

Space Mutiny
2.7/74
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.
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Space Mutiny

1981

Tarzan the Ape Man
4.1/99
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...
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Tarzan the Ape Man

1968

Skidoo
4.9/20
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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Skidoo

2001

CQ
5.9/66
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationshi...
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CQ

1980

The Pioneers
8/1
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...
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The Pioneers

1993

Angel Eyes
4/9
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...
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Angel Eyes

1992

Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars
0/0
A suicidal drunk-driver is forced to serve as bait to lure young girls into a private sanitarium that sells them to harems. One day, he runs into a wo...
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Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars

1987

Moon in Scorpio
3.7/14
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...
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Moon in Scorpio

1982

Attack Force Z
6.1/60
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos mu...
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Attack Force Z

2004

The Three Faces of Terror
4.4/12
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...
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The Three Faces of Terror

1973

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
6.7/231
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...
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

1967

Death Rides a Horse
7/208
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...
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Death Rides a Horse

1974

Open Season
5.7/16
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn...
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Open Season

1990

Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One
7/1
Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life.
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Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One

2000

Bad Guys
0/0
Two undercover cops accidentally find themselves in the middle of a small-town bank robbery.
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Bad Guys

1971

Von Richthofen and Brown
6.2/37
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...
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Von Richthofen and Brown

2006

Ray of Sunshine
0/0
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...
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Ray of Sunshine

1999

Wanted
6.5/12
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Wanted

1970

The Hawaiians
5.4/16
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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The Hawaiians

1990

Alienator
3.5/47
A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.
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Alienator

1977

Eyes Behind the Wall
6.4/16
Ivano it’s a wheelchair bound man with some strange perversions.He gets his sexual kicks by spying on Arturo, their tenant in the apartment next-door...
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Eyes Behind the Wall

1988

Blood Delirium
4.6/8
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...
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Blood Delirium

1968

The Sergeant
6.4/12
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...
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The Sergeant

1988

Thunder III
3.3/9
They took his wife... but he's still Walking Tall, they drew First Blood, but he's gonna fight back like Billy Jack.
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Thunder III

1967

Hurry Sundown
6.4/32
Post-WWII, a corporation seeks Georgia farmland, but two owners—a white veteran and a black man—refuse to sell, forming an alliance against the greedy...
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Hurry Sundown

1975

The Spiral Staircase
4.9/11
A mute young woman is stalked by a serial killer at her uncle's mansion.
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The Spiral Staircase

1976

A Whisper in the Dark
6/10
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.
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A Whisper in the Dark

1984

Hijacked to Hell
3.7/2
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...
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Hijacked to Hell

1969

Diary of a Telephone Operator
5.8/6
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...
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Diary of a Telephone Operator

1987

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
0/0
A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
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Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown

1989

Nerds of a Feather
0/0
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...
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Nerds of a Feather

1971

The Love Machine
4.2/4
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
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The Love Machine

2007

The Swinging Lust World of John Philip Law
0/0
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...
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The Swinging Lust World of John Philip Law

1988

A Case of Honor
5/1
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...
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A Case of Honor

1985

American Commandos
6.8/8
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...
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American Commandos

1976

Your God My Hell
0/0
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Your God My Hell

1978

Der Schimmelreiter
0/0
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Der Schimmelreiter

1977

Target of an Assassin
4.9/8
An ailing African leader is kidnapped by a nurse after being admitted to hospital, and finds himself stuck between two men who have different ideas of...
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Target of an Assassin

1988

Striker
4.286/7
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...
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Striker

1989

Cold Heat
0/0
Whatever tycoon R.C. Mallon wants, he takes. Obsessed with money and power, he crushes all who stand in his way. But now, the woman who was once the o...
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Cold Heat

1964

Three Nights of Love
5.8/6
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaa...
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Three Nights of Love

1975

Doctor Justice
4.4/8
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...
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Doctor Justice

1983

Tin Man
3.3/3
A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.
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Tin Man

1987

The Overthrow
0/0
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...
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The Overthrow

1962

Smog
5.6/5
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...
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Smog

1970

Mondo Rocco
2/1
Mondo Rocco is a collection of short films weaved together as it was seen in the Park Theater in Los Angeles in 1969/1970. Charming in their innocence...
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Mondo Rocco

1999

Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs
7/1
A tribute to stopmotion supremo and special effects genius extraordinaire Ray Harryhausen, the man behind some of cinema's greatest fantasy films - Th...
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Ray Harryhausen: Working with Dinosaurs

2002

Curse of the Forty-Niner
4.3/25
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...
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Curse of the Forty-Niner

1972

Monsters and Magic
0/0
A behind the scenes look at the making of "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".
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Monsters and Magic

1995

Burning Heart
0/0
Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two...
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Burning Heart

2024

Faye
6.7/14
Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her...
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Faye

1978

The Devil's Bed
5/1
A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong op...
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The Devil's Bed

2000

Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
5.9/7
Director Garry S. Grant’s insightful documentary celebrates the work and legacy of auteur filmmaker Mario Bava, the grand master of Italian horror and...
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Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre

1967

The Harem
5.5/8
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
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The Harem

1996

Hindsight
3/2
Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.
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Hindsight

1971

The Last Movie
5.7/53
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
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The Last Movie

1964

High Infidelity
5.3/10
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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High Infidelity

1973

Stardust
6.655/55
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...
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Stardust

1979

The Best Place to Be
6/1
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much you...
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The Best Place to Be

2005

Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
4/2
Famous comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette, creator of DC Comic Book character "The Swamp Thing" and co-creator of the comic character "Constantine"...
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Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film

1985

Night Train to Terror
4.5/66
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...
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Night Train to Terror

1987

Gila and Rik
0/0
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...
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Gila and Rik

1993

The Mountain of the Lord
7.9/9
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...
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The Mountain of the Lord

2008

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
0/0
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...
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Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

1985

Rainy Day Friends
0/0
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...
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Rainy Day Friends

2004

Mario Bava: Operazione paura
6/1
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura

1993

The Day of the Pig
0/0
The crippled Sarkis is the true king of Carbio. But it's Azazel who usurps the throne after having killed the former king, Sarkis' brother. Azazel pro...
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