Jack Canon: Jack Canon. Actor: Maximum Overdrive. Jack Canon was born in 1934. Canon gave an especially strong and convincing performance as ruthless criminal gang ringleader Steele in Frederick R. Friedel's offbeat and unsettling drive-in horror cult classic Axe (1977). Friedel was so impressed with Jack's acting in Axe (1977) that he specifically wrote the lead role of weary and cynical small-time hoodlum Eddie Matlock for Jack to play in his equally...