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Kevin Tighe filmography

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Kevin Tighe (b. Jon Kevin Fishburn; August 13, 1944) is an American actor who has worked in television, film, and theatre since the late 1960s. He attended University of Southern California where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting. Tighe earned a role in The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman and then served in the U.S. Army.[1] Following his military service, he returned to acting, working under contract for Paramount Pictures. In 1971 he signed a contract with Universal Studios and got the part of Fireman Roy DeSoto on the NBC series Emergency! (1972–77). He has made many guest appearances in TV shows such as Ellery Queen, Cos, and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. Tighe's film credits include Road House, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Jade. Tighe won a Genie Award for best supporting actor in 1994 for I Love a Man in Uniform. In the 2000s he played Anthony Cooper, the father of John Locke, on the ABC series Lost.

Filmography

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Film

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Feature film acting roles[2][3]
Year(s) Title Role Description
1967 Narcotics: Pit of Despair John Scott Short
  • Drama / Short
The Graduate Extra (uncredited) Feature film
  • Comedy / Drama / Romance
1968 Yours, Mine and Ours Extra (uncredited) Feature film
  • Comedy / Family
1987 Matewan Hickey Feature film
  • Drama / History
1988 Eight Men Out Joseph 'Sport' Sullivan Feature film
  • Drama / History / Sport
1989 K-9 Lyman Feature film
  • Action / Comedy / Crime
Lost Angels Dr. Gaeyl Feature film
  • Drama
Road House Frank Tilghman Feature film
  • Action / Thriller
1990 Another 48 Hrs. Lieutenant Blake Wilson Feature film
  • Action / Comedy / Crime
Bright Angel The Man Feature film
  • Drama / Thriller
1991 City of Hope O'Brien Feature film
  • Crime / Drama
1992 Newsies Snyder Feature film
  • Drama / Musical
School Ties Coach McDevitt Feature film
  • Drama
1993 A Man in Uniform
(Original title:
I Love a Man in Uniform)
Frank Feature film
  • Drama / Thriller
  • Tighe won a Genie Award for best supporting actor in 1994 for this film.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape Ken Carver Feature film
  • Drama
Geronimo: An American Legend Brigadier General Nelson Miles Feature film
  • Drama / History / Western
1994 Double Cross Brian Cody Video (94 min)
  • Thriller / Crime / Drama
Men of War Colonel Merrick Feature film
  • Action / Drama / Thriller
1995 Jade Captain Arnold Clifford Feature film
  • Action / Crime / Drama
The Ticket Mr. Kessler Short
  • Comedy short
1996 Race the Sun Jack Fryman Feature film
  • Drama / Adventure / Comedy
Scorpion Spring California County Sheriff Rawley Gill Feature film
  • Crime / Thriller
1999 The Wetonkawa Flash Unknown Feature film
Mumford Mr. Crisp Feature film
  • Comedy / Drama
2001 The Big Day Joe Feature film
  • Comedy
2003 Fast Food High Dave Richter Feature film
  • Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story William Gottschalk Feature film
  • Adventure / Biography / Drama
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp William Gottschalk Feature film
  • Adventure / Biography / Drama
2005 Hello Donald Short
  • Comedy
The Deal John Cortland Feature film
  • Crime / Drama / Thriller
Today You Die Max Stevens Feature film
  • Action / Crime / Thriller
A Life in Suitcases William Gottschalk Feature film
  • Adventure / Biography / Drama
2009 My Bloody Valentine Ben Foley Feature film
  • Horror / Thriller
2013 I am I Gene Feature film
  • Drama

Television

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Television acting roles[2][3]
Year(s) Title Role Description
1970 Bonanza Krulak 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Weary Willies" (season 12, episode 3)
1972 Adam-12 Roy DeSoto 1 episode of television series:
  • "Lost and Found" (season 5, episode 4)
1972-1979 The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (1972) Firefighter / Paramedic / Roy DeSoto 2-hour Pilot movie for the series Emergency!.
Emergency! (1972 thru 1977) Firefighter/Paramedic / Roy DeSoto / LACoFD 129 episodes of television series:
  • Also as Director:
    • "Inventions" (1974)
      (season 3, episode 22)
    • "Gossip" (1974)
      (season 4, episode 3)
    • "Equipment" (1975)
      (season 5, episode 4)
    • "Fair Fight" (1976)
      (season 6, episode 5)
  • Also as Writer:
    • "All Night Long" (1977)
      (season 6, episode 21)
Emergency! (1978 thru 1979)
(Six 2-hour television movies)
Firefighter / Paramedic / Roy DeSoto / LACoFD Six 2-hour television movies:
  • The Steel Inferno (January 7, 1978)
  • Survival on Charter #220 (March 28, 1978)
  • Most Deadly Passage (April 4, 1978)
  • Greatest Rescues of Emergency (December 31, 1978)
    (also as Director)
  • What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing (June 26, 1979)
  • The Convention (July 3, 1979)
Emergency +4 (1973 thru 1974) Firefighter / Paramedic / Roy DeSoto / (voice only) 23 episodes of a television series
  • Adventure animation
1973 Starship Rescue Himself Special
  • Previews for NBC's Saturday morning line up with Emergency!+4 and Star Trek: The Animated Series
1974 Go! Himself 1 episode of a children's program
  • September 7, 1974 showing what firefighters and paramedics do
The Six Million Dollar Man Root 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Last of the Fourth of Julys" (series 1, episode 10)
Sierra Fireman Roy DeSoto 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Urban Rangers"
    (season 1, episode 5)
1975 Dinah! Himself 1 episode of talk show
  • Season 2, episode 73 (December 26, 1975)
The Hollywood Squares Himself 1 episode of game show
  • Episode dated 6 October 1975
1976 Ellery Queen Detective Jim Millay 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep"
    (season 1, episode 20)
Cos Neighbor 1 episode of television series:
  • Episode dated 10 October 1976
The Rich Little Show Himself 1 episode of a comedy series
  • Season 1, episode 5 (March 1, 1976)
Battle of the Network Stars Himself TV special
1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Steve 2 episodes of television series:
  • "The Last Kiss of Summer Part 1
    (season 3, episode 1)
  • "The Last Kiss of Summer Part 2
    (season 3, episode 2)
1979 The Rebels Thomas Jefferson Television movie
  • Drama / History
1980 The Love Boat Chris 1 episode of television series:
  • "Dumb Luck/Tres Amigos/Hey, Jealous Lover"
    (season 3, episode 24)
1981 CBS Library Unknown 1 episode of television series:
  • "Orphans, Waifs and Wards"
    Episode dated 26 Nov. 1981
1986 Good Morning America Himself 1 episode of a talk show
  • Episode dated July 9, 1986
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse Inspector John Fernack 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Saint in Manhattan"
    (season 1, episode 1)
1990 Murder, She Wrote Lieutenant Moynihan 1 episode of television series:
  • "How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying"
    (season 6, episode 14)
Tales from the Crypt Sam Forney 1 episode of television series:
  • "Cutting Cards"
    (season 2, episode 3)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter Steven Elliott Television movie
  • Crime / Drama / History
1991 Face of a Stranger Richard Television movie
  • Drama
1992 Yesterday Today Mike Television movie
  • Drama
1993 Better Off Dead District Attorney John Byron Television movie
  • Drama
Caught in the Act Detective Television movie
  • Thriller
1994 Betrayal of Trust Bill Carroll Television movie
  • Drama
Under Suspicion Bob Phillips 1 episode of television series:
  • "Wife Abuse/Murder: Part 2"
    (season 1, episode 6)
1995 The Avenging Angel Benjamin Rigby Television movie
  • Western
Escape to Witch Mountain Sheriff Bronson Television movie
  • Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Murder One David Blalock 6 episodes of television series:
  • "Chapter One", "Chapter Two", "Chapter Three",
    "Chapter Four", "Chapter Five", "Chapter Six"
    (season 1, episodes 1-6)
Chicago Hope Harry Kincaid 1 episode of television series:
  • "Christmas Truce"
    (season 2, episode 11)
1996 The Single Guy Jack Blake 1 episode of television series:
  • "Rival"
    (season 1, episode 14)
In Cold Blood Herbert Clutter Television movie
  • Crime / Drama / History
1997 ER Sergeant Pete Mattimore 1 episode of television series:
  • "Fortune's Fools"
    (season 3, episode 13)
The 119 Battalion Chief Kieran Ryan Television movie
1998 The Outer Limits General 1 episode of television series:
  • "Final Exam"
    (season 4, episode 16)
Winchell William Randolph Hearst Television movie
  • Biography / Drama / History
1999 The Darwin Conspiracy Alan Hollingsworth Television movie
  • Sci-Fi
Star Trek: Voyager Henry Janeway 1 episode of television series:
  • "11:59"
    (season 5, episode 23)
1999-2000 Freaks and Geeks Mr. Andopolis 2 episodes of television series:
  • "I'm with the Band" (1999)
    (season 1, episode 6)
  • "Smooching and Mooching" (2000)
    (season 1, episode 16)
2000 Family Law Unknown 1 episode of television series:
  • "Metamorphosis"
    (season 1, episode 17)
The Sight Jake Television movie
  • Mystery / Thriller
2001 The West Wing Governor Jack Buckland, D-IN 1 episode of television series:
  • "On the Day Before"
    (season 3, episode 5)
2002 Rose Red Victor Kandinsky Television mini-series:
  • (season 1, episode 1)
  • (season 1, episode 2)
  • (season 1, episode 3)
Strange World Jack Cullum 1 episode of television series:
  • "The Devil Still Holds My Hand"
    (season 1, episode 6)
Nancy Drew Coach Jeffries Television movie
  • Mystery
2003 Everwood Joe Morris 1 episode of television series:
  • "Episode 20"
    (season 1, episode 21)
2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Dr. Edwin Lindgard 1 episode of television series:
  • "D.A.W."
    (season 3, episode 20)
2005-2010 Lost Anthony Cooper 6 episodes of television series:
  • "Deus Ex Machina" (2005)
    (season 1, episode 19)
  • "Orientation" (2005)
    (season 2, episode 3)
  • "Lockdown" (2006)
    (season 2, episode 17)
  • "The Man from Tallahassee" (2007)
    (season 3, episode 13)
  • "The Brig" (2007)
    (season 3, episode 19)
  • "The Candidate" (2010)
    (season 6, episode 14)
2007 The 4400 Senator Lenhoff 2 episodes of television series:
  • "The Truth and Nothing But the Truth"
    (season 4, episode 4)
  • "Till We Have Built Jerusalem"
    (season 4, episode 7)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Julian Cooper 1 episode of television series:
  • "Avatar"
    (season 9, episode 2)
2008 Numb3rs Keith Watts 1 episode of television series:
  • "Charlie Don't Surf"
    (season 5, episode 7)
2009 Leverage Ian Blackpoole 2 episodes of television series:
  • "The First David Job"
    (season 1, episode 12)
  • "The Second David Job"
    (season 1, episode 13)
Lie to Me Fletcher Bellwood 1 episode of television series:
  • "Undercover"
    (season 1, episode 11)
2010 Trauma Captain Cal Channing 1 episode of television series:
  • "'13'"
    (season 1, episode 13)
2012 Common Law Fred Bendek 1 episode of television series:
  • "In-Laws vs. Outlaws"
    (season 1, episode 10)
The Mountain Runners Himself (Narrator) Documentary
2013 America on Stage Himself Documentary
Independent Lens Himself TV series documentary
  • "Playwright: From Page to Stage"
    (season 15, episode 5)
2014 Salem Giles Corry 1 episode of television series

"The Vow"
(season 1, episode 1)

2015 Complications Gary Ellison 5 episodes of television series:
  • "Pilot"
    (season 1, episode 1)
  • "Onset"
    (season 1, episode 3)
  • "Diagnosis"
    (season 1, episode 6)
  • "Deterioration"
    (season 1, episode 9)
  • "Critical Condition"
    (season 1, episode 10)
2016 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Gregory Searle 1 episode of television series:
  • "Sheltered Outcasts"
    (season 17, episode 19)

References

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  1. ^ "Biography for Kevin Tighe". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  2. ^ a b "Kevin Tighe filmography at IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Kevin Tighe". TV.com. Retrieved 5 February 2014.