John Ashton, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Co-Star, Dies At 76

John Ashton, the actor who reached a profession zenith as detective John Taggart within the Beverly Hills Cop movie franchise, died at his Fort Collins, Colorado house 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 Final 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 appearing resume with later appearances on sequence like Phyllis, Police Story, Barnaby Jones, Police Lady, Surprise Lady, MASH, and Starsky and Hutch. In 1978, Ashton made the primary of six appearances as Willie Joe Garr on Dallas. And, in 1984, he rose to fame within the authentic Beverly Hills Cop movie reverse Eddie Murphy and Decide Reinhold.

Ashton later starred in three of the 4 different Beverly Hills Cop movies, most lately in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the sequel that dropped this previous summer time on Netflix.

Earlier, he had a frequently scheduled function on the crime drama Hardball, which aired within the 1989-90 TV season.

Ashton’s different movie roles included Some Form of Fantastic (1987), Midnight Run (1988), I Need to Go House (1989), Little Huge League (1984), Within the Residing Years (1994), Hidden Murderer (1995), For Which He Stands (1996), Meet the Deedles (1998), Intuition (1999), Candy Lethal Desires (2006), Center Males (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.