John Ashton, who is remembered for playing detective John Taggart in the « Beverly Hills Cop » film franchise, died at his Colorado home on Friday after a battl.
John Ashton, the actor who reached a career zenith as detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop film franchise, died at his Fort Collins, Colorado home on Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 76.
Born February 22, 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts, John Ashton’s early film credits included An Eye For An Eye (1973), Breaking Away (1979), Borderline (1980), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), and Last Resort and King King Lives, both in 1986.
Ashton bowed on television in episodes of dramas Kojak, Emergency! and Columbo in 1974, and build his acting resume with later appearances on series like Phyllis, Police Story, Barnaby Jones, Police Woman, Wonder Woman, MASH, and Starsky and Hutch.
