Kevin Tighe
For a brief time, Kevin Tighe was a television star, thanks to the popular action drama "Emergency!" (ABC, 1971-77), but he earned greater fame and respect as a character actor in features and on television shows like "Matewan" (1986), "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993) and "Lost" (ABC, 2005-2010). After "Emergency" was cancelled, he reinvested himself in his craft, and emerged in the mid-1980s to play physically imposing heavies whose true threat lay in their words. Tighe's bad men unspooled dark promises of danger and disaster in his measured tones, often delivered with a malevolent half-smile. Though "Emergency" would remain a nostalgic favorite to generations of children who came of age in the 1970s, the sheer quality of Tighe's subsequent work far outshone his early TV fame, making him one of the most respected character actors in the business.
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Kevin Tighe
Filmography
Movies
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30% |
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I Am I | Gene (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mountain Runners | Narrator | - | 2012 |
62% |
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My Bloody Valentine | Mayor Ben Foley (Character) | $51.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Today You Die | Max Stevens (Character) | - | 2005 |
21% |
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The Deal | John Cortland (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 1: The Moab Story | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Rose Red | Victor Kandinsky (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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The Sight | Jake (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Met on the Vineyard | Joe (Character) | - | 1999 |
58% |
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Mumford | Mr. Crisp (Character) | $4.6M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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The Darwin Conspiracy | Allan Hollingsworth (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wetonkawa Flash | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Descendant | Allan Hollingsworth (Character) | - | 1998 |
83% |
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Winchell | William Randolph Hearst (Character) | - | 1998 |
22% |
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Race the Sun | Jack Fryman (Character) | $1.7M | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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In Cold Blood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Escape to Witch Mountain | Sheriff Bronson (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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The Avenging Angel | Benjamin Rigby (Character) | - | 1995 |
16% |
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Jade | Dist. Atty. Arnold Clifford (Character) | $9.2M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scorpion Spring | Rawley Gill (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Men of War | Colonel Merrick (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayal of Trust | Bill Carroll (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Cross | Brian Cody (Character) | - | 1994 |
50% |
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Geronimo: An American Legend | Brig. Gen. Nelson Miles (Character) | $18.4M | 1993 |
90% |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Ken Carver (Character) | $7.8M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Better Off Dead | D.A. John Byron (Character) | - | 1993 |
60% |
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I Love a Man in Uniform | Frank (Character) | $4.3K | 1993 |
39% |
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Newsies | Snyder (Character) | $2.7M | 1992 |
61% |
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School Ties | Coach McDevitt (Character) | $12.5M | 1992 |
19% |
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Another 48 HRS. | Blake Wilson (Character) | $78.1M | 1990 |
80% |
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Bright Angel | The Man (Character) | $17.4K | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter | Steven Elliott (Character) | - | 1990 |
44% |
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Road House | Tilghman (Character) | $27.4M | 1989 |
30% |
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K-9 | Lyman (Character) | $38.9M | 1989 |
87% |
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Eight Men Out | Joseph 'Sport' Sullivan (Character) | $4.3M | 1988 |
94% |
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Matewan | Hickey (Character) | $23.9K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency: The Convention | Paramedic Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...? | Paramedic Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Most Deadly Passage | Fireman Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency: Survival on Charter No. 220 | Fireman Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency: The Steel Inferno | Paramedic Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency! | Paramedic Roy DeSoto (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Narcotics: Pit of Despair | John Scott (Character) | - | 1967 |
TV
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78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Julian Cooper (Guest Star) | 2007 2016 |
61% | 85% | Complications | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
82% | 77% | Salem | Giles Corey (Guest Star) | 2014 |
86% | 89% | Lost | Anthony Cooper (Guest Star) | 2005-2007 2010 |
25% | 80% | Trauma | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Lie to Me | Fletcher Bellwood (Guest Star) | 2009 |
92% | 88% | Leverage | Ian Blackpoole (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Numb3ers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
93% | No Score Yet | Everwood | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
42% | 64% | Stephen King's Rose Red | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
81% | 95% | The West Wing | Gov. Jack Buckland (Guest Star) | 2001 |
100% | 96% | Freaks and Geeks | Mr. Andopolis (Guest Star) | 1999-2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
76% | 80% | Star Trek: Voyager | Henry Janeway (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | General (Character) | 1998 |
75% | No Score Yet | The Single Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
91% | 71% | Murder One | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Lt. Moynihan (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency! | Roy DeSoto (Character) | 1972-1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Root (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |