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John Ashton

John Ashton

Total Box Office:
 $21.0M
Highest Rated:
95% Midnight Run (1988)
Lowest Rated:
0% King Kong Lives (1986)
Birthday:
Feb 22
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Memorably portraying gruff authority figures in such features as Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and King Kong Lives (1986), longtime character actor John Ashton possesses just the sort of rough-around-the-edges, grating quality that viewers love to hate. A native of Springfield, MA, who graduated from the…

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Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
40% Middle Men
  • Morgan
$0.7M 2010
Take
  • Actor
-- 2009
Letter to Dad
  • Actor
-- 2009
Reign of the Gargoyles
  • Actor
-- 2007
94% Gone Baby Gone
  • Nick Poole
$20.3M 2007
Escape from Alaska
  • Actor
-- 2002
Bill's Gun Shop
  • Actor
-- 2001
Escape From Alaska
  • Kemp
-- 1999
Moosie
  • Actor
-- 1999
4% Meet the Deedles
  • Capt. Douglas Pine
-- 1998
Hidden Assassin (The Shooter)
  • Alex Reed
-- 1995
Fast Money
  • Actor
-- 1995
33% Little Big League
  • Mac Macnally
-- 1994
10% Trapped in Paradise
  • Ed Dawson
-- 1994
A Letter to Dad
  • Actor
-- 1994
8% The Tommyknockers
  • Actor
-- 1993
14% Curly Sue
  • Mr. Arnold (uncredited)
-- 1991
Love, Lies And Murder
  • Carrothers
-- 1991
I Want to Go Home
  • Harry Dempsey
-- 1989
I Know My First Name Is Steven (The Missing Years)
  • Del Staynor
-- 1989
48% She's Having a Baby
  • Ken
-- 1988
95% Midnight Run
  • Marvin Dorfler
-- 1988
80% Some Kind of Wonderful
  • Cliff Nelson
-- 1987
46% Beverly Hills Cop II
  • John Taggart
-- 1987
Last Resort
  • Phil Cocoran
-- 1986
The Deliberate Stranger
  • Detective Roger Dunn
-- 1986
0% King Kong Lives
  • Col. Nevitt
-- 1986
Psychopath
  • Actor
-- 1984
83% Beverly Hills Cop
  • Sgt. Taggart
-- 1984
71% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Highway Patrolman
-- 1984
Honky Tonk Freeway
  • Actor
-- 1981
Borderline
  • Charlie Monroe
-- 1980
94% Breaking Away
  • Mike's Brother
-- 1979
71% Oh, God!
  • Actor
-- 1977
The Psychopath
  • Actor
-- 1973

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
80% Call the Midwife
  • Ted Lawson
2012-2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Chief of Detectives Alan Fewkes
1999-2013
57% The Finder
  • Franklin Sherman
2012-2012

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