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John Ashton

Actor

Born - 2 February 1948, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Died - 26 September 2024

Burly, balding, moustachioed American character actor, at his most prominent in Eddie Murphy's 'Beverly Hills Cop' films, as the harassed Sgt Taggart, although he had already been in films and on TV for more than a decade: An Eye for an Eye (1973), So Evil, My Sister (1974), Cat Murkil and the Silks (1976), Oh, God! (1977), Breaking Away (1979), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), King Kong Lives (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), She's Having a Baby (1988), Midnight Run (1988), I Want to Go Home (1989), Curly Sue (1991), Little Big League (1994), Fast Money (1996), Meet the Deedles (1998), Avalanche (1999), Bill's Gun Shop (2001), Sweet Deadly Dreams (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Middle Men (2009), Uncle John (2015), The Neighborhood (2017), Death in Texas (2020), All Happy Families (2023) and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024, his last. Three times married, he leaves five children. He died from cancer.