John David Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is an American actor born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre. John Ashton attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton has starred in several productions including MAS*H and Midnight Run. He played "Willie Joe Garr" on several episodes of Dallas, his character and that of "Jeb Ames" were charged with the crime of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Tina Louise's Dallas character "Julie Grey". Ashton also starred as Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first two movies of the popular Beverly Hills Cop trilogy alongside Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold. He also starred in the 1994 film, Little Big League, with Luke Edwards. Ashton currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado and is co-host of the Ashton and Davis show on 870 ESPN radio. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ashton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Movie | Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink 2 | Judge Nathan Rivers | 2026 |
| Movie | All Happy Families | Roy Landry | 2024-09-20 |
| Movie | BRATS | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2024-06-07 |
| Movie | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Chief John Taggart | 2024-06-20 |
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| Movie | Once Upon a River | 2019-05-10 | |
| Movie | American Christmas | Rob | 2019-11-04 |
| Movie | The Last Big Save | Joseph Bird Sr. | 2019-05-18 |
| Movie | The Joke Thief | Joseph Rogers | 2018-04-16 |
| Movie | Uncle John | Uncle John | 2015-03-16 |
| Series | The Finder | Unknown | 2012-01-12 |
| Series | Fairly Legal | Lou Fisher | 2011-01-20 |
| Movie | Middle Men | Morgan | 2009-05-17 |
| Series | The Take | Joseph | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | A Letter to Dad | Mike Donahue | 2009-07-27 |
| Movie | Gone Baby Gone | Det. Nick Poole | 2007-09-18 |
| Movie | Reign of the Gargoyles | Commander Latham | 2007-03-24 |
| Movie | The Psychedelic Furs: Live From House Of Blues | Self | 2001-11-19 |
| Movie | Bill's Gun Shop | Bill Voight | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | Instinct | Guard Dacks | 1999-06-04 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Unknown | 1999-09-19 |
| Movie | Escape from Alaska | Kemp | 1999-07-28 |
| Movie | Meet the Deedles | Capt. Douglas Pine | 1998-03-27 |
| Movie | The Day Lincoln Was Shot | Ulysses S. Grant | 1998-04-12 |
| Movie | Little Girls in Pretty Boxes | Peter Bryant | 1997-01-18 |
| Movie | Fast Money | Lt. Diego | 1996-08-13 |
| Movie | For Which He Stands | District Attorney | 1996-05-17 |
| Movie | The Shooter | Alex Reed | 1995-12-15 |
| Movie | Condition Red | Deputy Warden | 1995-12-08 |
| Movie | Trapped in Paradise | Ed Dawson | 1994-12-02 |
| Movie | Little Big League | Mac MacNally | 1994-06-29 |
| Series | The Tommyknockers | Butch Duggan | 1993-05-09 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Series | A Touch of Frost | Unknown | 1992-12-06 |
| Movie | Dirty Work | Eddie Ryan | 1992-07-22 |
| Movie | Curly Sue | Frank Arnold | 1991-10-25 |
| Series | I Know My First Name Is Steven | Del Stayner | 1989-05-22 |
| Series | Hardball | Charlie Battles | 1989-09-21 |
| Movie | I Want to Go Home | Harry Dempsey | 1989-09-27 |
| Movie | She's Having a Baby | Ken | 1988-02-05 |
| Movie | Midnight Run | Marvin Dorfler, Headhunter | 1988-07-20 |
| Movie | Some Kind of Wonderful | Cliff Nelson | 1987-02-27 |
| Movie | Beverly Hills Cop II | John Taggart | 1987-05-18 |
| Movie | Last Resort | Phil Cocoran | 1986-03-31 |
| Movie | The Deliberate Stranger | Det. Roger Dunn | 1986-05-04 |
| Movie | King Kong Lives | Lt. Col. R.T. Nevitt | 1986-12-16 |
| Series | A Death in California | Bob Swalwell | 1985-05-12 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1985-09-27 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Highway Patrolman | 1984-08-10 |
| Movie | Beverly Hills Cop | Sgt. Taggart | 1984-12-05 |
| Series | Police Squad! | Unknown | 1982-03-04 |
| Movie | Honky Tonk Freeway | Otto Kemper | 1981-08-21 |
| Movie | Elvis and the Beauty Queen | Jake | 1981-03-01 |
| Movie | Borderline | Charlie Monroe | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | Lawman Without a Gun | 1st State Trooper | 1979-05-30 |
| Movie | Breaking Away | Mike's Brother | 1979-05-24 |
| Movie | Oh, God! | Police Officer (uncredited) | 1977-10-07 |
| Series | Code R | 1977-01-21 | |
| Movie | Cat Murkil and the Silks | Coach Larkin | 1976-07-01 |
| Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
| Movie | Psycho Sisters | Brock | 1974-12-25 |
| Series | Police Woman | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
| Series | Kojak | Unknown | 1973-10-24 |
| Movie | An Eye for an Eye | Sgt. Matthews | 1973-09-28 |
| Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
| Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
| Series | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |
| Movie | The Head of the Family | Robert Letts | 1922-06-01 |