John Alderman(1934-1987)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
John Alderman was a talented, prolific, and ubiquitous actor in numerous
low-budget exploitation features who appeared in everything from 1960s
softcore items to 1970s drive-in fare to 1980s hardcore porn throughout
the course of his long and diverse career.
Alderman was born on June 12, 1934, in Syracuse, New York. His father was a prominent lawyer. Alderman attended Syracuse University as a theater major. He first began acting in both films and TV shows alike in the late 1950s, alternating between lead and co-starring roles. His most memorable parts include pathetic twitchy heroin addict Jimmy Devlin in the gloriously lurid The Hard Road (1973), antsy hoodlum Lattimer in This Is a Hijack (1973), a flunky for Shelley Winters in Jack Starrett's delightful blaxploitation blast Dynamite Jones (1973), stuttering drug dealer Cockroach in Le Parrain noir de Harlem (1974), uptight all-girls school principal Dr. Baxter in the amusing Delinquent School Girls (1975) and coldly rational researcher Dr. Frank Rogers in the nifty sci-fi doomsday thriller The Alpha Incident (1978). Alderman appeared in four softcore movies for legendary schlockmeister David F. Friedman: Starlet! (1969), Corps en folie (1968), Les Chevauchées amoureuses de Zorro ! (1972) and Le livre érotique de la jungle (1970). Although he primarily worked in maverick independent cinema productions, he nonetheless did manage to pop up in the occasional mainstream film like Les Évadés de la planète des singes (1971) and Le diable en boîte (1980).
In the early 1980s Alderman acted in a handful of hardcore X-rated porno films for director Gary Graver, under the pseudonym Frank Hallowell. Among the TV shows Alderman appeared on are Rick Hunter (1984), Dynastie (1981), L'homme qui tombe à pic (1981), Starsky et Hutch (1975), Le cheval de fer (1966), 12 O'Clock High (1964), The Lieutenant (1963), Échec et mat (1960), Au nom de la loi (1958), Hawaiian Eye (1959), La grande caravane (1957) and Gunsmoke (1955). He directed the crime opus Lisa's Folly (1970) and co-wrote the script for the lowbrow comedy romp C.B. Hustlers (1976).
John Alderman died at age 52 of an apparent heart attack on January 12, 1987, in Hollywood, California.
Alderman was born on June 12, 1934, in Syracuse, New York. His father was a prominent lawyer. Alderman attended Syracuse University as a theater major. He first began acting in both films and TV shows alike in the late 1950s, alternating between lead and co-starring roles. His most memorable parts include pathetic twitchy heroin addict Jimmy Devlin in the gloriously lurid The Hard Road (1973), antsy hoodlum Lattimer in This Is a Hijack (1973), a flunky for Shelley Winters in Jack Starrett's delightful blaxploitation blast Dynamite Jones (1973), stuttering drug dealer Cockroach in Le Parrain noir de Harlem (1974), uptight all-girls school principal Dr. Baxter in the amusing Delinquent School Girls (1975) and coldly rational researcher Dr. Frank Rogers in the nifty sci-fi doomsday thriller The Alpha Incident (1978). Alderman appeared in four softcore movies for legendary schlockmeister David F. Friedman: Starlet! (1969), Corps en folie (1968), Les Chevauchées amoureuses de Zorro ! (1972) and Le livre érotique de la jungle (1970). Although he primarily worked in maverick independent cinema productions, he nonetheless did manage to pop up in the occasional mainstream film like Les Évadés de la planète des singes (1971) and Le diable en boîte (1980).
In the early 1980s Alderman acted in a handful of hardcore X-rated porno films for director Gary Graver, under the pseudonym Frank Hallowell. Among the TV shows Alderman appeared on are Rick Hunter (1984), Dynastie (1981), L'homme qui tombe à pic (1981), Starsky et Hutch (1975), Le cheval de fer (1966), 12 O'Clock High (1964), The Lieutenant (1963), Échec et mat (1960), Au nom de la loi (1958), Hawaiian Eye (1959), La grande caravane (1957) and Gunsmoke (1955). He directed the crime opus Lisa's Folly (1970) and co-wrote the script for the lowbrow comedy romp C.B. Hustlers (1976).
John Alderman died at age 52 of an apparent heart attack on January 12, 1987, in Hollywood, California.
