John Beasley: Everwood actor dies

John Beasley is dead. According to “” the actor died on May 30, 2023 in his native city of Omaha, Nebraska. On June 26 he would have been 80 years old. His son, Mike W. Beasley, confirmed the sad news about . He did not name a cause of death.

‘Lost Best Friend’: Son mourns the loss of John Beasley

“You know it’s a part of life…but that doesn’t make it any easier,” wrote Mike W. Beasley. “I lost my best friend today.” It is said that you should never meet your heroes because then you could be disappointed, continues the son, who works as an actor himself. But that wasn’t the case with him. “My hero was my father. Thank you for everything. I hope I made you proud. I love you even more.”

John Beasley: Late bloomer as an actor

John Beasley only started his career as an actor at the age of 40. He previously worked for the major railroad company Union Pacific Railroad. “I wanted to raise my family,” he once said in one about his late start. “I have two sons that I’m very proud of and I thought it was more important to be a father and to see these children grow up.”

From the early 1990s, however, John Beasley started making films. His specialty was initially sports films. So he played in the ice hockey comedy “Mighty Ducks” (1992) or in “Rudy” (1993). Later, Beasley often acted in the military, for example in “Defenseless – The General’s Daughter” (1999) and “The Attack” (2002). In “Walking Tall” he embodied the father of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s (51) main character.

John Beasley played his most famous role in “Everwood” from 2002. The actor starred as a school bus driver in the series about a neurosurgeon who moves to a small town from New York. In Germany “Everwood” ran on VOX.