HOLLYWOOD, CA – 1989: Actor and co-star of the hit “Beverly Hills Cop” motion pictures, John Ashton, poses … [+]
John Ashton, the actor who reached a profession zenith as detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop movie franchise, died at his Fort Collins, Colorado dwelling on Friday after a battle with most cancers. He was 76.
Born February 22, 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts, John Ashton’s early movie credit included An Eye For An Eye (1973), Breaking Away (1979), Borderline (1980), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), and Last Resort and King Kong Lives, each in 1986.
Ashton bowed on tv in episodes of dramas Kojak, Emergency! and Columbo in 1974, and construct his performing resume with later appearances on sequence like Phyllis, Police Story, Barnaby Jones, Police Woman, Wonder Woman, MASH, and Starsky and Hutch. In 1978, Ashton made the first of six appearances as Willie Joe Garr on Dallas. And, in 1984, he rose to fame in the authentic Beverly Hills Cop movie reverse Eddie (*76*) and Judge Reinhold.
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Ashton later starred in three of the 4 different Beverly Hills Cop movies, most not too long ago in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the sequel that dropped this previous summer time on Netflix.
Earlier, he had a commonly scheduled role on the crime drama Hardball, which aired in the 1989-90 TV season.
Ashton’s different movie roles included Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Midnight Run (1988), I Want to Go Home (1989), Little Big League (1984), In the Living Years (1994), Hidden Assassin (1995), For Which He Stands (1996), Meet the Deedles (1998), Instinct (1999), Sweet Deadly Dreams (2006), Middle Men (2009) and Uncle John (2015).
Ashton is survived by his spouse of 24 years, Robin Hoye; youngsters Michelle Ashton and Michael Thomas Ashton; step-children Courtney Donovan, Lindsay Curcio and Ashley Hoye; grandson Henry; sisters Sharon Ann Ashton and Linda Jean Ashton; and brother Edward Richard Ashton.
