Beau Starr is an American actors best known for his role as Sheriff Ben Meeker in the horror films Halloween 4 (1988) and Halloween 5 (1989), and for his long-running role in Tandem de choc (1994) as Lt. Harding Welsh.
Beau began acting in the early 1980s, taking guest roles in TV series such as K 2000 (1982), Capitaine Furillo (1981) and Mike Hammer (1984). He soon switched to feature films, however, playing the unstable father of Judd Nelson in William Lustig's Psycho Killer (1989), an equally violent father in Martin Scorsese's Les affranchis (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 Né un quatre juillet (1989), Trial by Jury (1994), Le diable en robe bleue (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.
