John Beasley
American film, television, and stage acting in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries drew on a wide range of performers who moved fluidly across all three mediums. John Beasley was one such actor, born on June 26, 1943, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was educated at Technical High School before building a career that would span decades and multiple platforms.
Beasley worked as a film, television, and stage actor, appearing in a number of notable productions across his career. On film, he took roles in Rudy (1993), The Apostle (1997), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Walking Tall (2004), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), and Sinister 2 (2015). On television, he portrayed Irv Harper in the series Everwood, a role he held from 2002 to 2006. Beyond his screen work, Beasley remained committed to live theater throughout his life. In 2002, he founded the John Beasley Theater & Workshop in Omaha, Nebraska, an institution dedicated to promoting live theater with a particular focus on works written by or featuring African Americans.
The Library of Congress authorized label for Beasley records him as "Beasley, John, 1943–2023," a designation that marks the full arc of his working life as a United States citizen who began and ended his days in Omaha. He died there on May 30, 2023, having contributed to American performance across film, television, and the stage, and having established an institutional home for live theater in his hometown.
Quotes by John Beasley
These homes will be provided rent-free for up to a year, given the family's circumstances,
The study is interesting because we've always heard that within the U.S. and across the world, consumers prefer the taste of U.S. peanuts, particularly the peanut produced in the Southeast. We pride ourselves on taste in the South.
Farmers and the peanut industry are always looking for more disease-resistant, higher-performing varieties.
Even though the correct pathway can be walked in only 15 to 20 minutes, most wandering maze-goers will require about one hour to travel through the maze,
with some of the temperatures we've had recently and the isolated rainfall we've had, a good two or three inches of rain widespread across the peanut belt would actually be a very positive thing for us.