Everwood has died at the age of 79. Beasley, who appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died Tuesday (30 June) after a “brief and unexpected illness” at a hospital in his hometown of Omaha, his manager, Don Spradlin, said.
The actor played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film Rudy and a retired preacher in 1997’s The Apostle, co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
On TV, Beasley was the father of Cedric the Entertainer in the TV Land comedy The Soul Man and later starred for four seasons alongside Treat Williams in The WB’s Everwood.
Most recently, Beasley had small parts in the Showtime drama Your Honor, with Bryan Cranston, and The Mandalorian, a Star Wars offshoot on Disney+.
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