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John Ashton, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Actor, Dead at 76
John Ashton, the character actor who starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the 'Beverly Hills Cop' series, has died at the age of 76.
John Ashton, the character actor who starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the Beverly Hills Cop series, has died at the age of 76. Ashton’s other notable roles include playing Eric Stoltz’s father in the John Hughes-penned teen rom-com Some Kind of Wonderful, bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler in the 1988 cult action comedy Midnight Run, a pitching coach in 1994’s Little Big League, and a Boston detective in Ben Affleck’s 2007 neo-noir Gone Baby Gone. Over an acting career that began in the early Seventies, Ashton also appeared in episodes of M*A*S*H, Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the Eighties revival of The Twilight Zone.
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