# John Ashton

John David Ashton (Springfield, Massachusetts, 22 de fevereiro de 1948 — Fort Collins, Colorado, 26 de setembro de 2024) foi um ator e apresentador de rádio americano, mais famoso por sua atuação como o Sgt. John Taggart, na franquia de filmes Beverly Hills Cop I e II e cuja carreira se estendeu por 4 décadas. John morreu pacificamente, aos 76 anos de idade, depois de uma batalha contra o câncer.

## Filmografia
### Cinema

| Ano | Título | Papel |
| 1973 | The Psychopath | Sgt. Matthews |
| 1974 | So Evil, My Sister | Brock |
| 1976 | Cat Murkil and the Silks | treinador Larkin |
| 1977 | Oh, God! | policial |
| 1978 | Lawman Without a Gun | policial estadual |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | irmão de Mike |
| 1980 | Borderline | Charlie Monroe |
| 1981 | Elvis and the Beauty Queen | Jake |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway | Otto Kemper |
| 1984 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai | patrulheiro |
| 1984 | Um Tira da Pesada | Sgt. John Taggart |
| 1986 | Last Resort | Phil Cocoran |
| 1986 | The Deliberate Stranger | Det Roger Dunn |
| 1986 | King Kong Lives | Ten. Nevitt |
| 1987 | Some Kind of Wonderful | Cliff Nelson |
| 1987 | Um Tira da Pesada II | Sgt. John Taggart |
| 1988 | She's Having a Baby | Ken |
| 1988 | Midnight Run | Marvin Dorfler |
| 1989 | I Want to Go Home | Harry Dempsey |
| 1991 | Curly Sue | Frank Arnold |
| 1991 | Saturday's | George |
| 1992 | Dirty Work | Eddie |
| 1994 | Little Big League | Mac Macnally |
| 1994 | Trapped in Paradise | Ed Dawson |
| 1994 | In the Living Years | Mike Donahue |
| 1995 | The Shooter | Alex Reed |
| 1996 | For Which He Stands | promotor |
| 1996 | Fast Money | Ten. Diego |
| 1997 | Little Girls in Pretty Boxes | Peter Bryant |
| 1998 | Meet the Deedles | Cap. Douglas Pine |
| 1998 | The Day Lincoln Was Shot | Gen. Grant |
| 1999 | Instinct | guarda Dacks |
| 1999 | Escape from Alaska | Kemp |
| 2001 | Bill's Gun Shop | Bill Voight |
| 2005 | Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part | Richie Parsons |
| 2006 | Sweet Deadly Dreams | Harry |
| 2007 | Reign of the Gargoyles | Com. Latham |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Nick Poole |
| 2009 | Middle Men | Morgan |
| 2009 | A Letter to Dad | Mike |
| 2014 | Uncle John | John |
| 2024 | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley | Sgt. John Taggart |

### Televisão

| Ano | Título | Papel |
| 1974 | Kojak | Cullen |
| 1974 | Columbo | Calvin MacGruder |
| 1976 | Phyllis | contribuinte |
| 1976 | Police Story | Sgt. Paulson |
| 1977 | Police Woman | Curt Thomas |
| 1977 | Wonder Woman | cumplice nazista |
| 1977 | Code R | Karl |
| 1977 | M*A*S*H | M.P. |
| 1978 | Arquivo Confidencial | Sonny |
| 1977 1978 | Starsky and Hutch | Roy Sears Paul H. Willits |
| 1978 | Carter Country | guarda |
| 1979 | Dallas | Willie Joe Garr |
| 1980 | Breaking Away | Roy |
| 1982 | Police Squad | Rocky |
| 1985 | The A-Team | Cactus-Jack Slater |
| 1985 | A Death in California | Det. Swalwell |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Brady Simmons |
| 1986 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Leonard Porter |
| 1986 | Brothers | agente Harris |
| 1989 1990 | Hardball | Charlie Battles |
| 1990 | The Tracey Ullman Show | Jimmy |
| 1996 | JAG | agente Brian Turque |
| 1998 | King of the Hill | instrutor |
| 1998 | Fantasy Island | Bobby |
| 2001 | Judging Amy | Dashiel Purdue |
| 2001 | Going to California | Victor |
| 2002 | Body & Souls | Jordan Meadows |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | chefe dos detetives |
| 2011 | Fairly Legal | Lou Fisher |
| 2012 | The Finder | Franklin Sherman |