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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. John Ashton (1948 - ) Actor Born: February 22, 1948, Springfield, MA Education: Defiance College, OH (theater); USC, CA (theater) Burly, mustachioed character actor frequently cast as law enforcement agents or villainous heavies. Ashton began his acting career on the LA stage in the early 1970s after graduating from USC. He made his feature film debut as a police sergeant in PSYCHOPATH (1973), a role type he would assay in future projects on both the big and small screens. Other parts as law enforcement agents followed, including BORDERLINE (1980) and the cult favorite BUCKAROO BANZAI, but it was his role as LA Police Sergeant John Taggart, opposite Eddie Murphy, in the action comedy UN DETECTIVE SUELTO EN HOLLYWOOD (1984) and its 1987 sequel, UN DETECTIVE SUELTO EN HOLLYWOOD 2 (1987), that made Ashton a recognizable face. After UN DETECTIVE SUELTO EN HOLLYWOOD (1984), Ashton started getting better roles including a co-lead opposite Charles Grodin and Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter in FUGA A LA MEDIA NOCHE (1988). Ashton has also worked steadily in TV, playing a state trooper in the TV movie THIS MAN STANDS ALONE (1979) and one of the Memphis mafia in ELVIS AND THE BEAUTY QUEEN (1981). He has appeared in several miniseries, as a detective in pursuit of Ted Bundy in THE DELIBERATE STRANGER (1986) and in a featured role in Stephen King LOS TOMMYKNOCKERS (1993). He had a regular role on the short-lived sitcom Breaking Away (ABC, 1980-81), reprising his role from the feature film, and starred in his own cop series, Hardball (NBC, 1989-90), playing a veteran detective paired with a young, cocky, inexperienced partner. In the 1990s, Ashton returned to features playing a pitching coach in the children's baseball sleeper PEQUEÑO GRAN HEROE (1994) and was part of the ensemble of fine actors peopling THE FRIENDLIEST TOWN IN THE WORLD (1994) and in the uneven seasonal comedy TRAPPED IN PARADISE (1994).
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