John Ashton has died. Ashton manager Alan Somers confirmed The Hollywood Reporter that the Le flic de Beverly Hills the star died on Thursday. No official cause of death has been announced. He was 76 years old.
Ashton was a prolific actor who appeared in over 200 stage and screen productions. Perhaps better known as Sgt. Taggart in Le flic de Beverly HillsAshton provided ascending movie star Eddie Murphy with the proper grounding of a cop frustrated with the out-of-town hotshot. The film was a huge success, becoming one of the most influential action comedies of all time, thanks in part to the fact that Ashton rooted the comedy in the street cop milieu. He appeared in the first two Le flic de Beverly Hills films and returned for Netflix’s recent legacy sequel, Le flic de Beverly Hills : Axel F.
“The original script was very serious,” Ashton said. CBR. “When Eddie took over, you started to add humor to it, but we kept the edginess, so the story is still there.
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Saving his edginess for another landmark action comedy, Ashton found his Le flic de Beverly Hills director, Martin Brest, for the years 1986 Midnight Racewith Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. As Marvin Dolfer, one of the “world’s stupidest bounty hunters” who couldn’t “deliver a bottle of milk,” Ashton again grounds the frenetic, crazy plot with palpable frustration and resentment .
Born February 22, 1948, in Springfield, Massachusetts, John Ashton attended drama school at the University of Southern California before moving into television. Once on the small screen, Ashton made the rounds of ’70s staples, appearing on Kojak, Columbo, Barnabe Joneset M*AND*S*H. Towards the end of the decade, he landed a short stint on dallas and the film and television adaptation of Break away. Meanwhile, Ashton was collecting credits, playing cops and coaches in The psychopath, Autoroute Honky Tonket Buckaroo Banzai’s adventures through the 8th dimension.
In 1984, he played in Le flic de Beverly Hills like the sergeant. John Taggart, leading to a successful career as a reliable Hollywood actor. He starred in the film written by John Hughes Kind of wonderful as Eric Stoltz’s blue-collar father before appearing in the Hughes-directed films She’s going to have a baby et Sue curly. Throughout the 90s and 2000s, he continued in Hollywood, starring in Little Big League, Party Baby Partyet Instinct.
Ashton is survived by his wife, Robin Hoye, two children, three stepchildren, a grandson, two sisters and a brother.
