Beau Starr
Highest Rated: 92% Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Lowest Rated: 12% Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Birthday: Sep 1, 1944
Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA
After graduating from Hofstra University in New York, Beau Starr played professional football in Canada before his first television appearance on the risqué 1980 Canadian sketch comedy show "Bizarre." Eventually he relocated to Los Angeles where he embarked on a full-time acting career, and it wasn't long before he began landing roles on hit television shows like the 1982 William Shatner cop drama "T.J. Hooker." In the early days, his tough-guy looks and formidable height sometimes helped him snag villain roles, as he did in the action series "The Fall Guy" in 1983 and the sci-fi series "V" in 1985. More often, however, he appeared in the role of police officers, like in the sitcom "Three's Company" in 1983, and the Steve Martin comedy "The Lonely Guy" in 1984. Eventually, the bad guy roles became a thing of the past and police officers became the norm. In 1994, he landed in one of his best-known roles, playing a Chicago police lieutenant in the Canadian police drama/comedy "Due South," which was about a displaced Mountie working in Chicago. He is also often recognized for his portrayal of Sheriff Ben Meeker in 1988's fourth entry in the "Halloween" horror franchise, as well as its 1989 follow-up, "Halloween 5."
Filmography
Movies
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Time and Again | Mac Walkin (Character) | - | 2007 |
41% |
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Where the Truth Lies | Jack Scaglia (Character) | $871.5K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Doctor | Angelo (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mafia Doctor | Angelo (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Pretend You Don't See Her | Detective Ed Sloan (Character) | - | 2002 |
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Angels in the Infield | Gus Keeler (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Blue Lie | Detective Marshall (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery | Unknown (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Lips Egan (Character) | - | 2000 |
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Black and Blue | Tommy Walsh (Character) | - | 1999 |
17% |
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Mercy | Lt. Fritch (Character) | - | 1999 |
48% |
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The Corruptor | Captain Stan Klein (Character) | $15.2M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mean Streak | Capt. Churchman (Character) | - | 1999 |
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While My Pretty One Sleeps | Myles Kearny (Character) | - | 1997 |
43% |
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Hoodlum | Jules Salke (Character) | $23.5M | 1997 |
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Men | Tony (Character) | $3.1K | 1997 |
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Moonshine Highway | Dale Lister (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions | Det. Mike Foy (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wharf Rat | Joey the Fist (Character) | - | 1995 |
15% |
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Never Talk to Strangers | Grogan (Character) | $6.7M | 1995 |
92% |
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Devil in a Blue Dress | Detective Jack Miller (Character) | $15.9M | 1995 |
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Bad Blood | Bo (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Exposure | Chief Agent Granger (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride | Alonzo Hawkes (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murderous Vision | Captain (Character) | - | 1991 |
50% |
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Relentless | Ike Taylor (Character) | $7.0M | 1989 |
12% |
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Sheriff Ben Meeker (Character) | $11.2M | 1989 |
39% |
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Sheriff Ben Meeker (Character) | $17.9M | 1988 |
57% |
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Summer School | Mr. Gremp (Character) | $33.3M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Manhunt for Claude Dallas | Ed Pogue (Character) | - | 1986 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 67% | The Dead Zone | Edward Nolan (Character) | 2006 |
63% | 79% | Masters of Horror | Chief Charlie (Guest Star) | 2005 |
9% | No Score Yet | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Earth: Final Conflict | Lt. Gen. Kirkland (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doc | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Relic Hunter | Moore (Character) | 2001 |
33% | 92% | Total Recall 2070 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Due South |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1995-1998 |
83% | No Score Yet | EZ Streets | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996-1997 |
83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Tac Leader (Guest Star) | 1993 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Charlie Bennett (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Jake Janowitz (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True Blue | Lt. Bill Triplett (Character) | 1989-1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Highway to Heaven | Vince Diller (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Newhart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983-1984 1986 |
No Score Yet | 68% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 70% | The A-Team | Starger (Guest Star) | 1983-1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finder of Lost Loves | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
67% | 75% | V | Hostage Guard (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riptide | Unknown (Character) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Knight Rider | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Three's Company | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |