John Ashton
John David Ashton (February 22, 1948 – September 26, 2024) was an American actor best known for his role as Sergeant John Taggart in the hit action-comedy films Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), where he played alongside Eddie Murphy. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton developed a passion for acting early in life, later attending the University of Southern California's School of Theatre.
Beyond his iconic role in the Beverly Hills Cop series, Ashton appeared in a wide range of films and TV shows throughout his career. His notable film appearances include Midnight Run (1988) alongside Robert De Niro, where he portrayed a bounty hunter named Marvin Dorfler. On television, Ashton has made guest appearances on popular series such as Columbo, MASH, and The A-Team.
Ashton's performances are often characterized by his ability to balance humor and toughness, making him a beloved character actor, especially in roles that highlight his everyman charm and strong screen presence.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.443 |
| Birthday | 1948-02-22 |
| Place of Birth | Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | John David Ashton, جان اشتون, |
1984
Beverly Hills Cop
7.2/4238
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...
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Beverly Hills Cop
1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
6.5/2588
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...
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Beverly Hills Cop II
1979
Lawman Without a Gun
0/0
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...
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Lawman Without a Gun
2007
Gone Baby Gone
7.3/3833
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hi...
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Gone Baby Gone
1979
Breaking Away
7.1/264
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
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Breaking Away
1994
Little Big League
5.8/97
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himsel...
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Little Big League
1994
Trapped in Paradise
5.607/249
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
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Trapped in Paradise
1986
King Kong Lives
5.1/220
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g...
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King Kong Lives
1980
Borderline
6/45
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of...
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Borderline
1988
Midnight Run
7.184/1115
A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I....
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Midnight Run
1988
She's Having a Baby
5.9/206
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...
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She's Having a Baby
1998
Meet the Deedles
4.5/79
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
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Meet the Deedles
2007
Reign of the Gargoyles
5.9/18
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological G...
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Reign of the Gargoyles
1974
Psycho Sisters
0/0
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family b...
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Psycho Sisters
1987
Some Kind of Wonderful
6.9/479
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl i...
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Some Kind of Wonderful
1973
An Eye for an Eye
5/7
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get...
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An Eye for an Eye
1999
Escape from Alaska
4.2/12
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits...
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Escape from Alaska
1995
The Shooter
4.87/53
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
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The Shooter
1986
The Deliberate Stranger
6.5/22
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seatt...
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The Deliberate Stranger
1978
The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
0/0
While studying the behavior of birds on one of the western Florida island wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wild family encounters hunters and an is...
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The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands
1996
Fast Money
6/4
Butler is an experienced car thief, McCoy a struggling reporter trying to nail a bad guy-senator. Meeting for the first time when they're both in dire...
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Fast Money
1976
Cat Murkil and the Silks
4/2
A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.
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Cat Murkil and the Silks
1996
For Which He Stands
6/1
To save his family he'll risk losing everything. Fame, fortune, his life... even his soul.
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For Which He Stands
1998
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
6.8/5
A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
1997
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
5/3
A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
2009
Middle Men
6.471/325
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobste...
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Middle Men
1986
Last Resort
3.4/14
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhe...
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Last Resort
2023
Lonesome Soldier
6/2
Based on a true American story, Lonesome Soldier immerses viewers in the captivating journey of Jackson Harlow, a young man hailing from the heart of...
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Lonesome Soldier
1977
Oh, God!
6.456/124
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Oh, God!
2024
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
6.695/1192
Forty years after his unforgettable first case in Beverly Hills, Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to do what he does best: solve crimes and cause chaos.
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
All Happy Families
5.5/4
The Landrys are blindsided by news of their son's behavior, and must rally to find their way amidst comical family dysfunction.
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All Happy Families
2015
Uncle John
5.8/45
In this tale of small town intrigue, an urbanite returns to his quiet hometown on an impromptu trip as his Uncle, widely respected in town, struggles...
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Uncle John
1992
Dirty Work
0/0
A bail bondsman deals drugs on the side and thinks he's struck it rich when he conceives a scheme to steal counterfeit money. When the mob comes calli...
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Dirty Work
1995
Condition Red
4.5/8
Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.
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Condition Red
1999
Instinct
6.5/616
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven...
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Instinct
2024
BRATS
6/44
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. H...
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BRATS
1991
Curly Sue
6.4/533
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue....
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Curly Sue
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
5.985/440
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
2018
The Joke Thief
5.8/5
The Joke Thief takes us on a journey of one man's last hurrah. Simon McCabe is a stand up comedian who has been making people laugh for 35 years. All...
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The Joke Thief
1981
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
2.2/4
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beau...
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
2019
Making a Deal with the Devil
0/0
A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime...
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Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
The Last Big Save
7.3/3
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his fi...
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The Last Big Save
2019
Once Upon a River
6/3
After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way...
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Once Upon a River
2019
American Christmas
3.667/6
It took another ruined Christmas dinner to make Martha finally realize: her kids are jerks. Daughter, Penny is a 42-year old bully who's still letting...
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American Christmas
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
5.143/21
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
2009
A Letter to Dad
3.5/2
Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by deep-rooted anger caused by the father...
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A Letter to Dad
1989
I Want to Go Home
4.9/21
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Pari...
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I Want to Go Home
2022
Death in Texas
4.3/3
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a...
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Death in Texas
1984
Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
0/0
In this film noir comedy, detective Cash Hunt follows clues to solve a difficult puzzle. The producers offered a prize of $100,000 for the first viewe...
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Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
1975
My Father's House
0/0
Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-...
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My Father's House
Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink 2
0/0
Twin brothers - one a Marshal, one an Outlaw - join forces against a hardened killer bent on revenge in the old west.
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