For most of us, you'll always be Sgt. John Taggert from the four Beverly Hills Cop movies. In fact, Taggert set the standard for any and all cantankerous yet good-natured men in command.
But Taggert was just the tip of your eclectic iceberg, as your body of work includes King Kong Lives; The Tommyknockers; Reign of the Gargoyles; So Evil, My Sister; The Psychopath (Eye for an Eye); The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai; Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link; Borderline; Avalanche; Oh, God!; American Christmas; Honky Tonk Freeway; The Day Lincoln Was Shot (as Ulysses S. Grant); Saturday's; Midnight Run; Dirty Work; The Deliberate Stranger; Death in Texas; Loves, Lies and Murder; Once Upon a River; Bill's Gun Shop; Hidden Assassin; Uncle John; Little Big League; Curly Sue; The Neighborhood; I Want to Go Home; Trapped in Paradise; The Wilds of Ten Thousand Islands; Last Resort; Lawman Without a Gun; Some Kind of Wonderful; Little Girls in Pretty Boxes; My Father's House; She's Having a Baby; Gone Baby Gone; My Little Baby; Meet the Deedles; Instinct; Middle Men; The Joke Thief; The Rhineman Exchange; Jane Doe: Till Death Do Us Part; Cat Murkil and the Silks; Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink 2; Hot Bath an' a Shave; Making a Deal with the Devil; I Know My First Name is Steven; Elvis and the Beauty Queen; and Breaking Away.
On the small screen, you hit it outta the park with Wonder Woman; Columbo; Kojak; Barnaby Jones; Police Woman; Police Story; Police Squad!; Brothers; Fantasy Island; The A-Team; Starsky & Hutch; Hardcastle and McCormick; Emergency!; Code R; M*A*S*H; Phyllis; The Tracy Ullman Show; King of the Hill; Dallas; Judging Amy; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Fairly Legal; The Finder; Body & Soul; Family; The Twilight Zone (1980s: "Chameleon"); Hardball (as Charles Battles for 18 episodes); and Breaking Away (in which you reprised your movie role).
As is clear, you were here, there and everywhere, Mr. Ashton, and all for good cause and great measure, with efforts that gave us forthright drama, honest laughs and ever abiding thrills that'll thrive far into the future.
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