• John David Ashton (February 22, 1948 – September 26, 2024) was an American actor, known for his roles in the Beverly Hills Cop films, Some Kind of Wonderful...
  • Ashton's most well-known work came in 1984, when he starred alongside Eddie Murphy as hard-nosed police officer John Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop.
  • John Ashton. The first official trailer for Lonesome Soldier. ... Robert Carradine, Tara Reid, and John Ashton in American Christmas (2019).
  • Ashton portrayed Cliff Nelson, father of Eric Stoltz’s Keith Nelson, in the 1987 teen rom-com “Some Kind of Wonderful,” written and produced by John Hughes.
  • John Ashton, the actor best known as detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, has died. He was 76.
  • John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop films, has died.
  • John David Ashton, the actor who starred opposite Eddie Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop,” has died at the age of 76, reported TMZ on Sunday.
  • John David Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is perhaps best known for his roles in the popular Martin Brest films Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Midnight Run (1988).
  • John Ashton is an American actor born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre.
  • A burly, mustachioed character actor frequently cast as law enforcement agents or villainous heavies, John Ashton began his acting career on the L.A...