GODSPEED, JOHN SAXON...

It was an honor to have meet you at a Fangoria convention in the early '90s. You offered such fruitful and interesting stories, for which your adoring and avid audience was most grateful. 

The fanfare only goes to reason, as your career was characterized by a varied cream of the crop. 

There was "Enter the Dragon"; "Queen of Blood" (aka "Planet of Blood"); "Battle Beyond the Stars": "Prisoners of the Lost Universe"; "Planet Earth"; "Strange New World"; "Aftershock"; "The Arrival '91"; "The Bees"; "Hands of Steel"; "Night Caller from Outer Space"; "Black Christmas '74"; "Blood Beach": "A Nightmare on Elm Street '84"; "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"; "Wes Craven's New Nightmare"; "Nightmare Beach"; "Hellmaster"; "War Wolves"; "My Mom's a Werewolf": "Zombie Death House" (which you directed); "Cannibal Holocaust": "The Scorpion with Two Tails"; "Tenebrae"; "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" (aka "The Evil Eye"); "From Dusk till Dawn"; "The Baby Doll Murders"; "Maximum Force"; "Strange Shadows in an Empty Room"; "The Plunderers"; "Winchester '73": "The Appaloosa"; "The Unforgiven"; "Jonathan of the Bears"; "Death of a Gunfighter"; "Joe Kidd"; "Posse From Hell"; "The Ravagers"; "Raid on Entebee"; "Violent Naples": "Running Wild": "Rock, Pretty Baby"; "The Restless Years"; "I Kiss the Hand"; "Portrait Black"; "War Hunt"; "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation"; "Beverly Hills Cop III"; "Running Scared; "Genghis Khan"; "The Cardinal"; "The Big Fisherman"; "The Doomsday Flight"; "The Swiss Conspiracy"; "Moonshine County Express"; "Living in Fear"; "The Electric Horseman"; "Fast Company": "Shalimar"; and many more. 

For television, you guest starred often, further impacting our lives with memorable moments on "The Six Million Dollar Man"; "The Bionic Woman"; "The Fantastic Journey"; "The Ray Bradbury Theater"; "Rod Serling's Night Gallery": "The Sixth Sense"; "Masters of Horror"; "Fantasy Island": "Gunsmoke"; "Bonanza"; "The Virginian"; "Cimmaron Strip": "Kung Fu"; "Kung Fu: the Legend Continues"; "The A-Team"; "Quincy"; "Dr. Kildare"; "Ironside"; "The Rockford Files"; "Vegas": "Magnum PI"; "Murder, She Wrote": "Hawaii 5-0"; "Starsky and Hutch" (in a tasty and fierce, vampire role); "The Streets of San Francisco"; "It Takes a Thief"; "Name of the Game": "Burke's Law"; "The Dick Powell Theatre": "Greatest Heroes of the Bible", to name but a few. 

You're an icon to many and a friend to even those who never met you, Mr. Saxon. What you gave your fans will never perish, as is always the case with legends.