US actor John Ashton best known for Beverly Hills Cop, Some Kind of Wonderful, and Midnight Run, has died age 76.
He died last Thursday in Colorado, his family announced. No cause of death was immediately shared.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ashton was a regular face across television and film
He played Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first two Beverly Hills Cop films, released in 1984 and 1987, alongside Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold. He reprised his role in the 2024 Netflix reboot, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, in which his character is now the chief of police.
Other films included Midnight Run, Little Big League, Gone Baby Gone, King Kong Lives, Hidden Assassin, Eye for an Eye, So Evil, My Sister, Cat Murkil and the Silks, Breaking Away, Borderline and Honky Tonk Freeway.
On the small screen, he featured in Dallas, M*A*S*H, King of the Hill, Hardball, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, alongside numerous more.
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