John Ashton, the legendary character actor greatest recognized for Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run, has handed away at 76.
John Ashton, the legendary character actor who performed the curmudgeonly (however in the end heroic) Taggart within the Beverly Hills Cop films, has died. No information but on the reason for dying, however his passing was confirmed by his supervisor to Selection. Along with his function as Taggart, Ashton had a protracted and distinguished profession on display screen, with him additionally taking part in a memorable foil to Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin in Midnight Run (directed by his Beverly Hills Cop director Martin Brest).
Ashton was additionally a favorite of the legendary John Hughes, who forged him in a small function in She’s Having a Child earlier than giving him a giant half (as Eric Stoltz’s father) in Some Sort of Great. He additionally confirmed up in Hughes’ Curly Sue. Ashton was a type of guys who was simply in all places, with him glorious in Ben Affleck’s Gone Child Gone, the underrated George Gallo film Center Males, and on many, many TV exhibits and flicks, such because the memorable 80s miniseries, I Know My First Title Is Steven, the place he performed notorious kidnap sufferer Steven Stayner’s father. He additionally had a great function within the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers.
Ashton had only in the near past reprised his Beverly Hills Cop function reverse former co-stars Eddie Murphy and Decide Reinhold in Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. In truth, I truly interviewed him on the junket and located him to be a stunning man. Simply earlier than I went to interview him, I noticed him smoking a cigar on the balcony of the Beverly Hills Lodge, and once I went over to say good day, he couldn’t have been nicer. One of the vital touching moments within the interview was once I requested him whether or not he’d like to come back again for yet one more Beverly Hills Cop film, and he smiled at me, assuring me that he completely would. It’s unhappy that he gained’t get the prospect as a result of he was a very good man.
Right here’s a part of the interview:
