Vale: John Beasley

Veteran US actor John Beasley, best known for Everwood, The Mandalorian and The Sum of All Fears has died aged 79.

He died on Tuesday after a “brief and unexpected illness” at a hospital in his hometown of Omaha.

Beasley played a kindly school bus driver on Treat Williams drama Everwood for four seasons.

He appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s including Rudy, The Apostle, The General’s Daughter, The Sum of All Fears, Walking Tall, The Mighty Ducks, The Gift, The Purge: Anarchy and Sinister 2.

Other credits included The Soul Man, Your Honor, and The Mandalorian.

For more than a dozen years, he also ran the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in Omaha.

Source: ABC News