Beverly Hills Cop Cast Now: Biggest Movies Since & What They Look Like
What does the Beverly Hills Cop cast look like now and which notable movies have they starred in since? Directed by Martin Brest, Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 buddy cop action-comedy that stars Eddie Murphy as a streetwise Detroit detective who travels to uber-wealthy Beverly Hills to investigate the murder of his ex-con friend Mikey Tandino (James Russo). Beverly Hills Cop was a blockbuster back in 1984, ranking as the highest-grossing film of the year in the U.S.
It earned glowing reviews too – alongside Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations – and is still regarded as one of the best comedies of the 1980s. The movie spawned two sequels released in 1987 and 1994 (directed by Tony Scott and John Landis, respectively too. A long-brewing fourth film appears to finally be happening with Australian director Mark Molloy at the helm and Eddie Murphy — who took the lead role from Stallone - set to reprise Axel Foley.
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Before the sequel arrives, here’s what the original Beverly Hills Cop cast looks like now and what they’ve been up to since the comedy came out in back in 1984.
Eddie Murphy’s leading role in the Beverly Hills Cop cast as fish-out-of-water Detroit detective Axel Foley helped propel him to international fame. Murphy has starred in countless comedies since such as The Nutty Professor and Bowfinger, alongside voicing Donkey in the Shrek franchise. In more recent years he played comedian Rudy Ray Moore in the biographical comedy-drama Dolemite Is My Name and reprised his role as Prince Akeem in Coming To America 2.
Reinhold’s Beverly Hills Cop character is Billy Rosewood – a local detective assigned the task of following Axel while he’s in town. Since
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