John Beasley, finest recognized for enjoying Irv Harper within the hit tv collection Everwood, has died. He was 79.
Beasley’s passing was confirmed by his son Mike in a Fb publish, the place he wrote, “Man… this is part of life…however that doesn’t make it any simpler. I misplaced my finest pal as we speak. They are saying you shouldn’t ever meet your heroes as a result of they don’t develop into who you thought they have been. That’s so fallacious. My hero was my father. Thanks for all the things. I hope I made you proud. Love you extra.”
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Born on June 26, 1943, in Omaha, Nebraska, Beasley didn’t start his appearing profession till in his mid-forties, having beforehand labored as a railroad man with the Union Pacific Railroad. Certainly one of his first appearing credit got here within the ABC drama Brewster Place, the place he performed Mr. Willie in a number of episodes.
He would go on to look in movies like V.I. Warshawski (1991), The Mighty Ducks (1992), Rudy (1993), Untamed Heart (1993), and Little Big League (1994) and continued his TV work on reveals comparable to Laurel Avenue, Early Edition, and Millennium.
His first main TV function got here in Everwood, the Greg Berlanti drama a few Manhattan neurosurgeon who strikes his household to the fictional small city of Everwood, Colorado, after the demise of his spouse. Beasley performed faculty bus driver Irv Harper all through the present’s four-season run.
Beasley would proceed to look in small TV roles all through the 2000s earlier than touchdown a serious half within the TV Land sitcom The Soul Man, the place he performed the character Barton Ballentine. His most up-to-date credit got here in The Mandalorian and Your Honor.
His different movie credit embody The General’s Daughter (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), the 2004 remake of Walking Tall, and Firestarter (2022).
He’s survived by his son Mike; his spouse of 58 years, Judy; daughter-in-law Katie; and grandchildren Evan, Miles, Olivia, Mika, Darius, and Malik Beasley, who performs within the NBA for the Los Angeles Lakers.
