{"id":37186,"date":"2026-06-05T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/37186\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:11:13","slug":"james-handy-actor-in-top-gun-maverick-is-found-stabbed-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/37186\/","title":{"rendered":"James Handy, Actor in \u2018Top Gun: Maverick,\u2019 Is Found Stabbed to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">James Handy, a character actor in such films as \u201cLogan,\u201d \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cArachnophobia,\u201d was found stabbed to death at a home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/2062574797129916528\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the police said<\/a>. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">A 44-year-old man who is the son of Mr. Handy\u2019s girlfriend was arrested on a murder charge, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The police said they had been alerted to the crime when a man called 911 saying: \u201cI am the son of man. I just killed the man of sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Upon arriving at the home, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, police officers found Mr. Handy unconscious in the front yard with a stab wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead after being transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The suspect, Michael Gledhill, who lived at the home with his mother, flagged down police officers and told them he was the person they were looking for, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Mr. Gledhill was being held on $2 million bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Mr. Handy\u2019s many roles included a doctor in \u201cLogan,\u201d a bartender in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and a coroner in \u201cArachnophobia.\u201d He also appeared in \u201cJumanji,\u201d \u201cThe Rocketeer\u201d and many television shows, including playing the director of the C.I.A. in \u201cAlias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cI could not have asked for a more talented, humble or gracious client and friend than James Handy,\u201d his talent agent, Pam Ellis-Evenas of the Ellis Talent Group, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n7yjps etfikam0\">Georgia Gee contributed research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Handy, a character actor in such films as \u201cLogan,\u201d \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cArachnophobia,\u201d was found stabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[14898,21665,21564,8,21664,11904,11473,9,7],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-actors-and-actresses","tag-gledhill","tag-handy","tag-headlines","tag-james-1945-2026","tag-los-angeles-calif","tag-michael","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116698853122702237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}