Memorial portrait of Beau Starr as Sheriff Ben Meeker, with Halloween and Goodfellas elements, for obituary news illustration.
Memorial portrait of Beau Starr as Sheriff Ben Meeker, with Halloween and Goodfellas elements, for obituary news illustration.
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Skådespelaren Beau Starr, känd från 'Halloween' och 'Maffiabröder', har dött vid 81 års ålder

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Beau Starr, känd för sina roller som Sheriff Ben Meeker i 'Halloween 4' och 'Halloween 5' samt i Martin Scorseses 'Maffiabröder' (Goodfellas), har avlidit. Han blev 81 år gammal. Starr gick bort av naturliga orsaker i sitt hem i Vancouver, Kanada.

Beau Starr avled i fredags av naturliga orsaker i sitt hem i Vancouver, vilket hans yngre bror Mike bekräftade för TMZ. Mike beskrev honom som "mycket unik och speciell". Starr föddes den 1 september 1944 i Queens i New York och ägnade sig inledningsvis åt professionell idrott, bland annat i New York Jets träningslag mellan 1966 och 1968 samt i Canadian Football League för Montreal Alouettes och Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Han övergick till skådespeleriet och gjorde sin filmdebut 1979 i den kanadensiska sketchserien "Bizarre".Starr fick ett erkännande för rollen som Sheriff Ben Meeker i "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) och "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" (1989). Han medverkade även som den våldsamma fadern till Ray Liottas karaktär i "Maffiabröder" (1990). Bland hans övriga filmroller märks "Fletch" (1985), "Speed" (1994), "Djävul i blå klänning" (1995), "Cinderella Man" (2005) och "Född den fjärde juli".På tv hade Starr gästroller i serier som "Psych", "Knight Rider", "The A-Team", "MacGyver", "T.J. Hooker", "Three’s Company", "Remington Steele", "The Fall Guy", "Night Court", "Matlock", "Par i brott" (Moonlighting), "Mord och inga visor" (Murder She Wrote) och "NYPD Blue". Hans mest framträdande tv-roller var som Lieutenant Harding Welsh i BBC-komedin "Due South", som sändes under fyra säsonger mellan 1994 och 1999, samt som Lieutenant Bill Triplett i NBC-serien "True Blue" 1989.

Vad folk säger

De första reaktionerna på X präglas främst av sorg och hyllningar till Beau Starrs karriär, särskilt hans roll som Sheriff Ben Meeker i Halloween 4 och 5, samt hans insats i Maffiabröder. Nyhetsmedier som TMZ och Variety har spridit nyheten, och fans skriver RIP-hälsningar där de berömmer hans skådespelarinsatser. Inga negativa eller skeptiska tongångar har observerats.

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