SVU," "Brookside" and "Hardball." Ashton also starred in films "An Eye for an Eye," "Midnight Run," "Little Big League" and ...

and the lead in the short-lived 1989 NBC buddy-cop series Hardball. Ashton first appeared in his best-known role in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. He played Sergeant John Taggart, a gruff officer who ...

John Ashton, the actor best known as detective ... Breaking Away, The Twilight Zone, Hardball, EastEnders, King of the Hill, Fantasy Island and Brookside. His additional film credits included ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. He was 76.