{"id":915,"date":"2026-05-02T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/02\/beau-starr-halloween-franchise-and-goodfellas-actor-dies-at-81\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:47:00","slug":"beau-starr-halloween-franchise-and-goodfellas-actor-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/02\/beau-starr-halloween-franchise-and-goodfellas-actor-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Beau Starr, \u2018Halloween\u2019 Franchise and \u2018Goodfellas\u2019 Actor, Dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> \tBeau Starr, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/halloween\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halloween_1\" data-tag=\"halloween\">Halloween<\/a><\/em> franchise actor, has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p> \tStarr\u2019s brother, Mike, told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/02\/beau-starr-dead\/\">TMZ<\/a> he died Friday, April 24 in Vancouver, Canada, due to natural causes.   <\/p>\n<p> \tBefore delving into the entertainment industry, he was a professional football player for the New York Jets, the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In 1980, he starred in a play at the American Theater of Actors, and earned his first television credit in 1979 on <em>Bizarre<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p> \tFrom there, Starr pursued work in both TV and film, appearing in a 1983 episode of <em>Three\u2019s Company<\/em>; the Steve Martin-starring comedy <em>The Lonely Guy<\/em>; <em>The A-Team<\/em> (1983-1985); <em>The Fall Guy<\/em> (1983-1986); <em>Fletch<\/em> (1985); and an episode of <em>Highway to Heaven<\/em> in 1988.   \t<\/p>\n<p> \tStarr joined the <em>Halloween<\/em> film universe in 1988\u2019s <em>Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers<\/em>, where he portrayed Sheriff Ben Meeker. He returned for the franchise\u2019s fifth entry, <em>Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers<\/em>, where he reprised his earlier role.<\/p>\n<p> \tIn 1990, he also acted in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/goodfellas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_goodfellas_1\" data-tag=\"goodfellas\">Goodfellas<\/a><\/em>, playing the father to Ray Liotta\u2019s character Henry Hill. Christopher Serrone, who portrayed the younger version of Henry in the Oscar-winning film, penned a tribute on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX147iFEZnP\/?img_index=1\">Instagram<\/a> in honor of Starr on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> \t\u201cIt is with a heavy heart Im here to inform everyone of the very sad passing of Beau Starr.\u00a0[Mike Starr]\u00a0asked me to make the announcement,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBeau enjoyed a rich a meaningful life. He was a son, brother, father, grandfather, actor and NFL\/CFL player. Please take a moment to help me remember a great guy. RIP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \tStarr appeared in a plethora of other projects, including a starring turn in NBC\u2019s crime drama series <em>True Blue<\/em> through its 12-episode run. His additional credits include <em>2000 Malibu Road<\/em>, <em>Bad Blood, Speed, NYPD Blue, Leap Years, Doc, Final Days on Planet Earth <\/em>and<em> Psych<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beau Starr, the Halloween franchise actor, has died. He was 81. Starr\u2019s brother, Mike, told TMZ he died Friday, April 24 in Vancouver, Canada, due to natural causes. Before delving into the entertainment industry, he was a professional football player for the New York Jets, the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In 1980, he starred in a play at the American Theater of Actors, and earned his first television credit in 1979 on Bizarre. From there, Starr pursued work in both TV and film, appearing in a 1983 episode of Three\u2019s Company; the Steve Martin-starring comedy The Lonely Guy; The A-Team (1983-1985); The Fall Guy (1983-1986); Fletch (1985); and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[565,566,2,27,60,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goodfellas","category-halloween","category-hollywood","category-movie-news","category-movies","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}