Beau Starr is an American actors best known for his role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the horror films Halloween 4 - Michael Myers kehrt zurück (1988) and Halloween 5 - Die Rache des Michael Myers (1989), and for his long-running role in Ein Mountie in Chicago (1994) as Lt. Harding Welsh. Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as Knight Rider (1982), Polizeirevier Hill Street (1981) and Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Der Sunset Killer (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas - Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia (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 Geboren am 4. Juli (1989), Die Geschworene - Verurteilt zur Angst (1994), Teufel in Blau (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. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Lee-Williams
