Kevin Tighe
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| Born | John Kevin Fishburn 13 August 1944 Los Angeles, California,  United States |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca |
Kevin Tighe (born John Kevin Fishburn on August 13, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor best remembered for his role as Randolph Mantooth's firefighting/paramedic partner Roy DeSoto on the NBC-Universal TV series Emergency!, from 1972 to 1977.
His first big screen appearance was a bit role in The Graduate (a few lines of dialogue late in the film) after which he served a stint in the US Army. After his military service he returned to acting, working under contract for Paramount Pictures, and then auditioned for producer Jack Webb and won a starring role in Emergency!.
Since this time Tighe has had several guest appearances in other television series, including Adam-12, The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, Freaks and Geeks, Law & Order (both :SVU and :CI) and The West Wing where he portrayed Governor Jack Buckland. On Lost, he has appeared numerous times (2005-2007) as the villainous Anthony Cooper, father of John Locke.
Tighe has also become a dependable character actor and has appeared in supporting or featured roles in several movies, notably Matewan, Eight Men Out, Road House, Another 48 Hours, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, I Love a Man in Uniform (for which he won a Genie award for best supporting actor in 1994) and a TV-remake of Escape to Witch Mountain.
Tighe is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.[citation needed] He has lived in Skagit County of Washington state for the last 30 years, with his wife. They have one daughter.
[edit] External links
- Kevin Tighe at the Internet Movie Database
- Kevin Tighe article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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