Judge Reinhold is working up to a punchline. “The day before Beverly Hills Cop came out,” he says, leaning back in the chair in a plush executive-looking studio 5,000 miles away from me ...

While Ashton had nearly 100 screen credits to his name, he will likely be best remembered as Detective John Taggart in the ...

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Ashton starred with Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in the first two "Beverly Hills Cop" films as Detective Sergeant John Taggart. He returned for the fourth film, 2024’s "Beverly Hills Cop ...

Over in Beverly Hills, Foley's estranged daughter Jane ... Foley returns to the West Coast and teams up with old friends Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Taggart (John Ashton), and Abbott (Joseph ...

Ashton, a Massachusetts native, died two months after the premiere of Netflix's "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F," which saw him reunite with Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold 40 years after the original ...

CBS via Getty From left: John Ashton, Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in 'Beverly Hills Cop' Ashton's most well-known work came in 1984, when he starred alongside Eddie Murphy as hard-nosed police ...

John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop ... Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Ashton's ...