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John Beasley

Actor

Born - 26 June 1943, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Died - 30 May 2023

Distinctive, light-skinned, moon-faced, much-freckled, Afro-American character actor whose decision to quit the Union Pacific railroad in his forties and turn his hand to acting was vindicated by dozens of subsequent appearances in Hollywood films and TV series. Later, he even founded his own theatre company. Many films include Rapid Fire (1988), V.I.Warshawski (1991), The Mighty Ducks (1992), Untamed Heart (1993), Little Big League (1994), The Cure (1995), The Apostle (1997), Overnight Delivery (1998), The General's Daughter (1999), Lost Souls (2000), The Journeyman (2001), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Walking Tall (2004), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), For Love of Amy (2009), Haunted Maze (2012), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), Sinister 2 (2015), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), The Turkey Bowl (2019), Spell (2020), Firestarter (2022) and It Snows All the Time (2022), his last. Survived by Judy, his wife of 58 years, and two sons, he died following liver problems.