Engaging comic actor, tall and freckle-faced with a neighborly air, whose strong suit has been enacting a naif's befuddlement and a slapstick-style physical elasticity. After starting out in regional theater, he made his mark as the blundering senior in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982). Reinhold is best known as the ineffectual detective Billy Rosewood, opposite Eddie Murphy in the blockbuster "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) and its sequels.After playing in two 80s smash films, "Ruthless People" (1986) and "Beverly Hills Cop II" (1987), Reinhold's profile receded a bit. He worked as an actor
