{"id":108718,"date":"2024-09-30T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108718"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:06:01","slug":"john-ashton-beverly-hills-cop-actor-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108718","title":{"rendered":"John Ashton, &#8216;Beverly Hills Cop&#8217; actor, dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB\">NEW YORK &#8212; <\/span>John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/beverly-hills-cop-axel-f-movie-review-ed35c5bb7f4a79e6ec4a09a4c8c15144\">\u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d films<\/a>, has died. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Ashton died Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado, his family announced in a statement released by Ashton&#8217;s manager, Alan Somers, on Sunday. No cause of death was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ashton was a regular face across TV series and films, including &#8220;Midnight Run,\u201d \u201cLittle Big League\u201d and \u201cGone Baby Gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">But in the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d films, Ashton played an essential part of an indelible trio. Though Eddie Murphy&#8217;s Axel Foley, a Detroit detective following a case in Los Angeles, was the lead, the two local detectives \u2014 Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Ashton&#8217;s Taggart \u2014 were Axel&#8217;s sometimes reluctant, sometimes eager collaborators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Of the three, Taggart \u2014 \u201cSarge\u201d to Billy \u2014 was the more fearful, by-the-book detective. But he would regularly be coaxed into Axel&#8217;s plans. Ashton co-starred in the first two films, beginning with the 1984 original, and returned for the the Netflix reboot, \u201cBeverly Hills Cop: Axel F,&#8221; released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Ashton played a more unscrupulous character in Martin Brest&#8217;s 1988 buddy comedy \u201cMidnight Run.\u201d He was the rival bounty hunter also pursuing Charles Grodin&#8217;s wanted accountant in \u201cThe Duke&#8221; while he&#8217;s in the custody of Robert De Niro&#8217;s Jack Walsh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Speaking <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/midnight-run-robert-de-niro-john-ashton\/\">in July to Collider<\/a>, Ashton recalled auditioning with De Niro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cBobby started handing me these matches, and I went to grab the matches, and he threw them on the floor and stared at me,\u201d said Ashton. \u201cI looked at the matches, and I looked up, and I said, \u2018F\u2014- you,\u2019 and he said, \u2018F\u2014- you, too.\u2019 I said, \u2018Go \u2014- yourself.\u2019 I know every other actor picked those up and handed it to him, and I found out as soon as I left he went, \u2018I want him,\u2019 because he wanted somebody to stand up to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Ashton is survived by his wife, Robin Hoye, of 24 years, two children, three stepchildren, a grandson, two sisters and a brother. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN\">This story has been updated to correct that Ashton starred in three of the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d films, not all four. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/john-ashton-beverly-hills-cop-actor-dies-76-114333421\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d films, has died. 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