Kevin Tighe

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Kevin Tighe
Born	John Kevin Fishburn 13 August 1944 (1944-08-13) (age 64) 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. He and Mantooth have remained close friends since that time. [1]

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), The 4400 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, K-9 (film) - (the first of two films with Jim Belushi, the other being Race The Sun), 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 Rebecca. They have one daughter.

[edit] External links

• Kevin Tighe at the Internet Movie Database
• Kevin Tighe article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki