Enter the Dragon
Saxon, who had done martial arts since 1957 appeared as the martial artist Roper in 1973's "Enter the Dragon". It was Bruce Lee's first major role in a Hollywood feature. Saxon almost backed out of "Enter the Dragon", on account of the script being too light. "It was a sixty page treatment", said Saxon in a 2002 interview. "I thought: there’s not enough to act here. A stunt man could play it. But they talked me into it, saying they would work in my suggestions. Some things they shot and kept in the film, but most of it they discarded." After "Enter the Dragon", Saxon had no further interest in appearing in martial arts films.