\n\t\t\t\t\t\t A man was charged with murder Friday in the stabbing of \u201cJumanji\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d actor James Handy, who was his mother\u2019s boyfriend.Michael Gledhill, 44, was charged after police say officers found the 81-year-old Handy stabbed in the chest and unconscious outside his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Handy was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead.Video above: Scene of James Handy’s stabbing in LAGledhill was expected to be arraigned Friday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court.Authorities say Gledhill was arrested after telling police he was the person they were looking for. Police had responded to the home after a 911 caller stated: \u201cI am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin,\u201d according to the department.Handy was a character actor in films and on TV for decades, including appearances in a variety of television crime procedurals.Bail was set at $2 million for Gledhill, who lives at home with his mother, according to authorities.It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney. Jail records did not show an attorney for him and messages left with the county public defender\u2019s office were not immediately returned.Born in New York, Handy appeared in films and TV shows for decades.He was known for his role as an exterminator in the 1995 film \u201cJumanji\u201d and more recently as the bartender Jimmy in the 2022 film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d according to IMDB. He\u2019s also appeared in some of the top TV crime dramas, including \u201cNCIS: Los Angeles,\u201d \u201cThe Closer\u201d and \u201cCold Case.\u201d\u201cI could not have asked for a more talented, humble or gracious client and friend than James Handy,\u201d Pam Ellis-Evenas, from the Ellis Talent Group, said in an email to The Associated Press.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A man was charged with murder Friday in the stabbing of \u201cJumanji\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d actor James Handy, who was his mother\u2019s boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Michael Gledhill, 44, was charged after police say officers found the 81-year-old Handy stabbed in the chest and unconscious outside his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Handy was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Video above: Scene of James Handy’s stabbing in LA<\/p>\n
Gledhill was expected to be arraigned Friday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Gledhill was arrested after telling police he was the person they were looking for. Police had responded to the home after a 911 caller stated: \u201cI am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin,\u201d according to the department.<\/p>\n
Handy was a character actor in films and on TV for decades, including appearances in a variety of television crime procedurals.<\/p>\n
Bail was set at $2 million for Gledhill, who lives at home with his mother, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney. Jail records did not show an attorney for him and messages left with the county public defender\u2019s office were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n
Born in New York, Handy appeared in films and TV shows for decades.<\/p>\n
He was known for his role as an exterminator in the 1995 film \u201cJumanji\u201d and more recently as the bartender Jimmy in the 2022 film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d according to IMDB. He\u2019s also appeared in some of the top TV crime dramas, including \u201cNCIS: Los Angeles,\u201d \u201cThe Closer\u201d and \u201cCold Case.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not have asked for a more talented, humble or gracious client and friend than James Handy,\u201d Pam Ellis-Evenas, from the Ellis Talent Group, said in an email to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was charged with murder Friday in the stabbing of \u201cJumanji\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d actor James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[142537,142533,142531,11493,142534,25599,339,36282,1924,19077,48397,142535,94260,142538,142536,142529,14140,48,52,51,5015,734,47,50,49,142530,69446,142400,42527,142539,2322,236,7756,142540,69447,142532],"class_list":["post-349337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2-million-bail","tag-911-call","tag-actor-death","tag-chest","tag-chest-stabbing","tag-cold-case","tag-death","tag-dhnd","tag-film","tag-front-yard","tag-girlfriend","tag-girlfriend-son","tag-hollywood-actor","tag-hospital-death","tag-jailed-on-suspicion","tag-james-handy","tag-jumanji","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-stabbing","tag-maverick","tag-michael-gledhill","tag-murder-arrest","tag-ncis-los-angeles","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-son","tag-the-closer","tag-top-gun","tag-top-gun-maverick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}