Beau Starr is an American actors best known for his role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the horror films Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween 5 (1989), and for his long-running role in Due South (1994) as Lt. Harding Welsh.Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as Knight Rider (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981) and Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Relentless (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (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 Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Trial by Jury (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (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. Show less «