{"id":2445721,"date":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2445721"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:58:13","slug":"actor-james-handy-stabbed-to-death-in-tarzana-girlfriends-son-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/actor-james-handy-stabbed-to-death-in-tarzana-girlfriends-son-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor James Handy stabbed to death in Tarzana; girlfriend’s son arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Los Angeles police are investigating the fatal stabbing of actor James Handy, who officials said was killed by his girlfriend\u2019s son Wednesday at a home in Tarzana. The suspect was apprehended after he made a bizarre 911 call.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, authorities identified the 81-year-old stabbing victim as the actor, who appeared in the films \u201cLogan,<\/a>\u201d \u201cJumanji<\/a>,\u201d \u201cTop Gun: Maverick<\/a>\u201d and \u201cArachnophobia.\u201d <\/p>\n

Representatives for the actor confirmed the news to The Times. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning around 9:30 a.m., West Valley area patrol officers responded to an emergency call in a residential neighborhood of Tarzana. The 911 caller stated, \u201cI am the son of man. I just killed the man of sin.\u201d <\/p>\n

When police arrived, they found Handy in the front yard of the Erwin Street home, unconscious and suffering from a stab wound to his chest. According to law enforcement, Handy was taken to a local hospital by paramedics, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

A news release said that Michael Gledhill, the man suspected of stabbing Handy, flagged down officers who were responding to the incident and told them he was the one they were looking for. <\/p>\n

Gledhill, 44, lives at the Erwin Street home with his mother, who police said was in a relationship with Handy.<\/p>\n

Detectives said they believed this was an isolated incident and there appeared to be no danger to the public at this time.<\/p>\n

Gledhill was arrested and transported to Van Nuys Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of murder. His bail was set at $2 million.<\/p>\n

Handy has more than 150 acting credits to his name and had acted across television and film since the 1970s. Most recently, he played a bartender alongside Jennifer Connelly in the 2022 sequel \u201cTop Gun: Maverick.\u201d In 2017, he played opposite Hugh Jackman in \u201cLogan\u201d as a doctor who pleads with Wolverine<\/a> to heal up. <\/p>\n

In 2021, he portrayed Father MacGuffin in the comedy \u201cSenior Entourage.\u201d The film\u2019s director, Brian Connors, posted on Facebook last year that Handy was one of the \u201cfinest character actors I know.\u201d <\/p>\n

Handy also acted in numerous television crime dramas, including \u201cAlias,\u201d \u201cCriminal Minds,\u201d \u201cNCIS: Los Angeles,\u201d \u201cRizzoli & Isles,\u201d \u201cCSI: NY,\u201d \u201cCold Case\u201d and more. <\/p>\n

The police are asking anyone with additional information about this incident to contact the Robbery-Homicide Division, Valley Section, Dets. Simonyan or Lopez, at (818) 374-9550. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles police are investigating the fatal stabbing of actor James Handy, who officials said was killed by his girlfriend\u2019s son Wednesday at a home in Tarzana. The suspect was apprehended after he made a bizarre 911 call. On Thursday, authorities identified the 81-year-old stabbing victim as the actor, who appeared in the films \u201cLogan,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2445618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Actor-James-Handy-is-stabbed-to-death-in-Tarzana-by.com2Fbb2Fce2Fe4771afc4571b3af42a364b9.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445722,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445721\/revisions\/2445722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}