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Actor John Beasley attends TV Land’s new sitcom “The Soul Man” final episode of the wrap party at CBS Studios on July 27, 2012 in Studio City, California.
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Omaha, Neb. – John Beasley, the veteran actor who played a cute school bus driver in the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, has died. He was 79 years old.
Paisley’s manager, Don Spradlin, said Paisley died Tuesday after a “brief and unexpected illness” at a hospital in his hometown of Omaha.
Paisley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football movie “Rudy” and a retired preacher in the 1997 movie “The Messenger,” co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
On television, Paisley was the father of Cedric the Entertainer in the TV Land comedy “The Soul Man” and later played for four seasons alongside Treat Williams in Everwood on the WB.
Most recently, Paisley had small parts in the Showtime drama “Your Honor” with Bryan Cranston, and “The Mandalorian,” a Star Wars spin-off on Disney+.
For more than twelve years he directed the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in Omaha, where he was born in 1943.
“Being a working artist is the most important thing, and I appreciate wherever it takes me,” Paisley told American Theater last year.
he is survived by Judy, his wife of 58 years; two sons, Michael and Tyrone; and six grandchildren, including Malik Beasley, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.
The NBA veteran paid tribute to his grandfather on Instagram.
“To the man who put the Beasleys on the map,” he wrote.
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