Beau Starr, the American actor known for roles in Goodfellas and the Halloween franchise, has died at the age of 81. His brother, actor Mike Starr, confirmed that Beau died peacefully of natural causes on Friday in Vancouver, Canada.
Born on 1 September 1944 in Queens, New York, Starr initially pursued a career in professional football. He was on the practice squad of the New York Jets from 1966 to 1968 before playing for the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.
Starr made his on-screen debut in 1979 on the sketch comedy show Bizarre. He went on to appear in numerous television series, including TJ Hooker, Cagney & Lacey, Three's Company, Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver, Moonlighting, Night Court, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, Wings, NYPD Blue, The Dead Zone, and Psych.
He also starred as Lt. Bill Triplett in the short-lived NBC drama True Blue (1989–1990) and played Lt. Harding Welsh in the CTV crime comedy Due South from 1994 to 1999.
Starr's film credits include Sheriff Ben Meeker in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), as well as roles in Fletch (1985), Goodfellas (1990), Speed (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and Cinderella Man (2005).
