Beau Starr(I)
- Actor
- Executive
Beau Starr is an American actors best known for his role as Sheriff Ben
Meeker in the horror films
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), and for his
long-running role in
Due South (1994) as Lt. Harding
Welsh.
Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as Knight Rider (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981) and The New Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Relentless (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), and a police commissioner in Jan de Bont's Speed (1994).
He has since notched up over one hundred TV and film appearances including Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Trial by Jury (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and Hoodlum (1997).
More recently he starred in the Masters of Horror (2005) episode 'Jennifer', directed by Dario Argento.
He is the brother of actor Mike Starr.
Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as Knight Rider (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981) and The New Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Relentless (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), and a police commissioner in Jan de Bont's Speed (1994).
He has since notched up over one hundred TV and film appearances including Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Trial by Jury (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and Hoodlum (1997).
More recently he starred in the Masters of Horror (2005) episode 'Jennifer', directed by Dario Argento.
He is the brother of actor Mike Starr.
