{"id":4754,"date":"2026-06-05T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/james-handy-top-gun-maverick-and-jumanji-actor-dead-at-81-after-being-stabbed-by-girlfriends-son-cops\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:03:25","slug":"james-handy-top-gun-maverick-and-jumanji-actor-dead-at-81-after-being-stabbed-by-girlfriends-son-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/james-handy-top-gun-maverick-and-jumanji-actor-dead-at-81-after-being-stabbed-by-girlfriends-son-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"James Handy, &#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; and &#8216;Jumanji&#8217; actor, dead at 81 after being stabbed by girlfriend&#8217;s son: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129787000.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>James Handy, a character actor best known for roles in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cJumanji,\u201d was killed Wednesday in a stabbing in Los Angeles. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/04\/us-news\/top-gun-maverick-actor-james-handy-murdered-by-girlfriends-son-chilling-911-call\/\">reported by The California Post<\/a>, the Los Angeles Police Department said he was killed by his girlfriend\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities responded to the 19200 block of Erwin Street\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/14\/us-news\/man-arrested-after-trying-to-climb-fence-at-chris-browns-la-home\/\">in the Los Angeles area city of Tarzana<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday morning after a caller stated, \u201cI am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Character actor James Handy (pictured here on a 1995 episode of \u201cNYPD Blue\u201d) was killed Wednesday in a stabbing in Los Angeles, The California Post reported. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Handy was killed by his girlfriend\u2019s son, Michael Gledhill, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Above is a photo from the crime scene. <span class=\"credit\">ABC7<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When they arrived, cops discovered Handy unconscious in the front yard of a home,\u00a0suffering from multiple stab wounds to the chest, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to a local hospital and pronounced dead there.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Michael Gledhill, 44, allegedly waved down officers a short time later and told them he was the one they were looking for, according to a news release from the\u00a0LAPD.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Handy (pictured here in a 1999 episode of \u201cK-911\u201d) was stabbed multiple times in the chest, according to the LAPD. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Handy (pictured right in a 1995 episode of \u201cThe X-Files\u201d) was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 81. <span class=\"credit\">20th Cent Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cops say Gledhill was living with his mother \u2014 Handy\u2019s girlfriend \u2014 at the time of the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s currently unclear what led to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Gledhill was arrested for murder, and his bail is currently set at $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Handy made his acting debut in 1997 and has nearly 150 acting credits to his name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0359695\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to his IMDb page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actor (pictured here in a 2010 episode of \u201cCastle\u201d) made his acting debut in 1977 and amassed nearly 150 acting credits during his career, according to his IMDb page. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Most recently, Handy played a bartender named Jimmy in the 2022 film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d as seen above in a scene with Tom Cruise. <span class=\"credit\">Paramount<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Handy made numerous one-off appearances on television shows over the years and had short runs on programs like \u201cQuantum Leap,\u201d \u201cL.A. Law,\u201d \u201cNYPD Blue,\u201d \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210,\u201d \u201cMelrose Place,\u201d \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger,\u201d \u201cProfiler,\u201d \u201cThe West Wing,\u201d \u201cThe Practice,\u201d \u201cBreaking News,\u201d \u201cAlias\u201d and \u201cThe Young and the Restless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the big screen, he appeared in \u201cTaps,\u201d \u201cArachnophobia\u201d and \u201cLogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Movie fans may best remember him for playing an exterminator in 1995\u2019s \u201cJumanji,\u201d and he most recently played a bartender named Jimmy in 2022\u2019s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/04\/celebrity-news\/high-top-gun-maverick-jumanji-actor-james-handy-dead-at-81-killed-by-girlfriends-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Handy, a character actor best known for roles in \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cJumanji,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129787000.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}