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John Ashton
Actor 1948 - 2024

John Ashton

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

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), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2025) where he played alongside... Read full bio →

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18 titles
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Mark Molloy 2024 1h 58m 6.0

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.

Middle Men

Middle Men

George Gallo 2009 1h 45m 6.3

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, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone

Ben Affleck 2007 1h 53m 7.3

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally. Based on the Dennis Lehane novel.

Instinct

Instinct

Jon Turteltaub 1999 2h 4m 6.9

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

The Shooter

The Shooter

Ted Kotcheff 1995 1h 44m

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

Trapped in Paradise

Trapped in Paradise

George Gallo 1994 1h 51m 6.0

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

Curly Sue

Curly Sue

John Hughes 1991 1h 41m 1.0

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. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo.

I Want to Go Home

I Want to Go Home

Alain Resnais 1989 1h 40m

An American cartoonist goes to Paris and and visits with his daughter who is there studying the writings of Flaubert with a great admirer of her father's work.

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby

John Hughes 1988 1h 46m 7.0

Young newlyweds find out just how unprepared they are for their future together.

Midnight Run

Midnight Run

Martin Brest 1988 2h 6m 7.2
Some Kind of Wonderful

Some Kind of Wonderful

Howard Deutch 1987 1h 35m 7.0

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 in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.

Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop II

Tony Scott 1987 1h 43m 6.1

The second Beverly Hills Cop film starring Eddie Murphy back as the police officer Axel Foley. Once again the Detroit cop is sent to Beverly Hills; this time Axel along with Friends John Taggart and Billy Rosewood try to track down the man behind the “Alphabet Robberies.”

King Kong Lives

King Kong Lives

John Guillermin 1986 1h 45m 4.3

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 giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

W.D. Richter 1984 1h 43m 6.3

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop

Martin Brest 1984 1h 45m 7.2

Beverly Hills Cops gave Eddie Murphy his biggest breakthrough as to being one of the biggest superstars of the 1980’s. Quoted by some to be one of the funniest movies off all time. This action/comedy cop movie tells the story of Detroit cop Axel Foley.

Borderline

Borderline

Jerrold Freedman 1980 1h 44m 6.0

On the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb's partner's murder.

Breaking Away

Breaking Away

Peter Yates 1979 1h 41m 6.5

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.

Oh, God!

Oh, God!

Carl Reiner 1977 1h 38m 5.7

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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