John Beasley played a mild-mannered school bus driver on the TV series Everwood. The actor played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film Rudy.
Beasley was the father of Cedric the Entertainer on Land The Soul Man. He had small roles in the Showtime drama Your Honor, with Bryan Cranston, and in The Mandalorian, a spin-off of Star Wars on Disney+. He had two sons, Michael and Tyrone; and six grandchildren, including Malik Beasley, who plays for the Lakers.