Kevin Tighe

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Kevin Tighe (born Jon Kevin Fishburn; August 13, 1944) is an American actor who has worked in television, film, and theatre since the late 1960s.

On the 1972-77 NBC series Emergency! He is best known for his role as firefighter paramedic Roy DeSoto. In 1967's The Graduate, Tighe appeared in his first major film as an extra.

Tighe's career took a turn from bit parts and extra work when he was cast as Roy DeSoto on Emergency!

Following Emergency!, Tighe went on to make numerous guest television appearances on shows including Ellery Queen, Cos, The Hardy Boys, and The Six Million Dollar Man.

Aside from The Graduate, Tighe's film credits include Road House, City of Hope, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Jade.

In I Love a Man in Uniform, Tighe was named Best Supporting Actor in 1994.

Anthony Cooper appeared on ABC television series Lost in the 2000s, as well as Giles Corey in the premiere episode of the original WGN America series Salem. Tighe has appeared in a variety of stage productions, including A Reckoning, Mourning Becomes Electra, Anna Christie, Other Desert Cities, and Curse of the Starving Class.

Early years and education

Jon Kevin Fishburn, a Czech-Bohemian and Irish descent, was born in Los Angeles, California, on August 13, 1944, as Jon Kevin Fishburn, the son of an actor.

Tighe and his family migrated from Los Angeles to Pasadena, where he began acting at an early age and auditioning for juvenile leads at the Pasadena Playhouse. He graduated from Pasadena High School in 1962 and then moved to Pasadena City College and CSU-LOS ANGELES, where he was a member of Beta Chi fraternity before receiving a Bachelor's degree from USC and then an MFA in 1967. Tighe was drafted into the United States Army after being drafted in the United States Army in Washington, D.C. He was stationed in Fort Knox for two years rather than being sent to Vietnam due to a finger injury.

Personal life

Tighe and his partner, artist Rebecca Fletcher, have lived in Skagit County, Washington, since 1985.

He flies to Los Angeles and New York City for work from Skagit County. Tighe has a daughter from his first marriage (to Mary Lou Seaman), Jennifer Tighe, an actress with whom he appeared in A Reckoning's stage version.

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Career

Tighe's first film appearance was in 1967 as a fraternity brother in The Graduate, after which he appeared in two other films: Pit of Despair and Yours, Mine and Ours. Tighe appeared in "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine" and "Design for Life" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, after being kicked out of service. He then went on to perform in "Design for Life" with the National Theatre of Great Britain. During this time, Tighe worked with a number of well-known actors, including Lorne Greene, Maggie Smith, and Michael Landon before concluding a deal with Universal Studios. In the episode "The Weary Willies," during Tighe's tenure at Paramount, he appeared on NBC's Bonanza.

Emergency, Jack Webb's latest television series, auditioned for Tighe. Roy DeSoto, a firefighter paraphrasedoutput, was born in 1972 and joined Randolph Mantooth as his partner, John Gage. In a fire department rescue squad, DeSoto and his staff will respond to vehicle accidents, medical emergencies, and other rescues. The medics administered advanced life support techniques to stabilize patients needing assistance before they were rushed to a medical facility after receiving instructions and treatment orders from a local hospital via radiotelephone.

Tighe, along with other participants on the show, sat in on paramedic classes and participated in "ride-alongs" with the Los Angeles County Fire Department in order to better represent his character. Only 12 fire departments or ambulance services in North America fielding paramedics were on display when the program premiered; the show has been credited with exposing the concept of pre-hospital care, fire suppression, and CPR. Tighe said that the emergency had arisen in a 2006 Seattle radio interview. "I was all proud of the fact that I was surrounded by working people and was always proud of this fact." It emphasized the paramedic program."

The show ran six seasons (129 episodes), including a pilot film, The Wedsworth-Townsend Act, and averaged 30 million viewers per week. Tighe narrated four episodes of Emergency! "Gossip" (1974), "Inventions" (1974), "Tools (1975), and "Fair Fight" (1977). She wrote one episode for the show "Up All Night" (1977). In the beginnings of the show, Tighe and Mantooth did several of their own stunts. "If you could see our faces, it was us doing the stunts, it was us doing the stunts," Mantooth has said.

When Tighe was on Emergency!, he appeared as Roy DeSoto in two other shows created by Robert A. Cinader, Sierra, which featured the backdoor pilot as an Emergency. a new episode of "Lost and Found" from Adam-12 (the episode "Lost and Found"). On the animated spin-off Emergency +4, Tighe voiced Roy DeSoto. On NBC's Go! narrated an episode about paramedics in LA County.

Tighe became and remained friends with Mantooth, as well as co-stars Julie London and Bobby Troup during the series's run and after it was cancelled. At Mantooth's second wedding in 2002, Tighe was named as the best man. Tighe had the opportunity to meet well-known jazz musicians and artists before being cast on the show through his friendship with Troup and London, who were married to each other as well as recording artists.

Both Tighe and Mantooth appear in the video presentation The Pioneers of Paramedicine Story, a project implemented by the Los Angeles County Fire Museum in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Fire Museum. The video, which was shot in 2001 and then shot in 2013, is a record of pre-hospital medicine.

Tighe was an honorary committee member on Project 51 and its attempts to honor Emergency personnel. The past of the people who lived here. For the initiative, Tighe conducted interviews and assembled a brief history of American EMS. Roy DeSoto's uniform and some of the medical equipment on display were among the exhibits on display in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in the Public Services division in May 2000.

Tighe, as well as Mantooth, was given by the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 2012 as Honorary Fire Chief. The award was given for contributions to the fire service and emergency medicine by educating and inspiring others to work in firefighting and EMS.

After the cancellation of Emergency!, Tighe continued to work in episodic television, appeared on Ellery Queen, Cos, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Love Boat. In a 1979 adaptation of John Jakes' "Orphanage, Waifs, and Wards," he appeared on CBS Library's "Orphans, Waifs, and Wards" as Thomas Jefferson and Wards.

Tighe taught drama at the University of Washington, D.C. in the 80s. He took up acting, this time with Robert Lewis and Stella Adler in New York City, in order to keep his acting abilities sharpened. He spent time in summer stock as part of a firm founded by Alfred Christie at the Hampton Playhouse in 1980 and appeared in Come Blow Your Horn. Tighe appeared in Two for the Seesaw at William Putch's Totem Pole Playhouse in Caledonia, Pennsylvania, in 1983.

Tighe appeared in the play, Open Admissions, for the second week; the show was over after two weeks. He appeared at The Ballad of Soapy Smith in Princeton, NJ, later starring Mark Weller; The New York Shakespeare Festival was held at the Public Theatre in New York City. He received a NEA fellowship at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1989. In 1986, Tighe wrote and directed Homegirl for the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Tighe began working in television and films after returning to Los Angeles in 1986. His late 1980s film appearances were in Matewan, Eight Men Down, K-9, and as club boss Frank Tilghman in 1989's Road House with Patrick Swayze. "I've received more remarks on that film than I've ever seen," Tighe said during a 2006 interview. "Working class people like it, (college students), white people, and black people," the film's broad audience appeal has stunned him, he added. A lot of it's due to the music... the movie had great songs."

Tighe's work in the 1990s included articles on episodic television crime, drama, and science-fiction scripts. Tighe appeared on episodes of Murder, She Wrote, Tales from the Crypt, Under Suspicion, Chicago Hope, The Single Guy, The Outer Limits. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "11:59," he portrayed police detective David Blalock on the murder and legal drama, Murder One and Henry Janeway, an ancestor of Captain Kathryn Janeway.

Tighe appeared in a number of television films during the 1990s, including Perry Mason's The Defiant Daughter, the sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain, and slain Kansas father and farmer Herb Clutter in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood's 1996 miniseries version of In Cold Blood. In Winchell, Tighe also portrayed newspaper legend William Randolph Hearst.

Tighe's film appearances included lawyers, law enforcement officers, and military figures, including Blake Wilson in the Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte car. During this time, Bright Angel, City of Hope, Newsies, School Ties, and Mumford were all film roles. Ken Carver was portrayed by Tighe in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Brigadier General Nelson Miles Geronimo: An American Legend." In 1994, he received the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor in the role of "Frank" in Uniform's "I Love a Man."

Tighe stayed in theater and appeared in three different capacities: Hilton Lasker, Swifty, and Lord Kitterson in The End of the Day: An Entertainment at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1989 and 1990. Tighe continued to perform at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in the 1990s, including Hedda Gabler in 1992.

Tighe continued to do episodic television and network television, as well as appearing on Freaks and Geeks, Family Law, The West Wing portraying Governor of Indiana Jack Buckland. Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: The 4400 unit. Tighe appeared on ABC's Lost as Anthony Cooper, father of John Locke. His appearances included episodes of Numb3rs, Leverage, and Lie to Me.

He had worked on television as well as two films and a mini-series. Tighe appeared in The Sight and Nancy Drew. He has also worked in film, including appearances in Fast Food High, Today You Die, and My Bloody Valentine. In three of Tulse Luper's films, Tighe portrayed William Gottschalk: Part 1: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Antwerp, and A Life in Suitcases.

With the bulk of his stage experience in Seattle, Tighe appeared in regional and repertory theater. In Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara, Tighe played Mick Dowd, a gravedigger, in the ACT Theatre in Seattle in 2000. The company then travelled to New York, where it appeared at the Roundabout Theatre Company and Gramercy Theatre.

In Mourning Becomes Electra, Brigadier General Ezra Mannon played Brigadier General Ezra Mannon, and the play was first performed at the ACT Theatre with Jane Alexander in 2001. Tighe and Alexander were in the cast later in 2001 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Jennifer Tighe and his daughter Jennifer were working at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. In Anna Christie, Tighe appeared in many roles, Sam Shepard's Buried Child, and Yuri Lubymov's production of Crime And Punishment on the Kreeger Theatre in Washington, D.C.

In A Number, Tighe played Salter, investigating the psychological consequences of cloning. at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. In five scenes from his three cloned sons and the nature of human bonds, his character explores parent-child relationships.

On Trauma, Tighe played Captain Channing. Common Law, Complications, and Salem are among his latest episodic television programs. I am I, his most recent film appearance, was released in June 2014.

The Mountain Runners, a Tighe-narrated documentary that focuses on the mountain marathon runners at Mount Hood in the early 1900s, was narrated by Tighe. Tighe was interviewed for America on Stage, discussing the development of new plays funded by the National Endowment for the Performing Arts. Tighe appeared on the PBS program, Independent Lens, during a documentary. In "Playwright: From Page to Stage," the documentary explored the growth and staging of a new play.

Tighe appeared in Rajiv Joseph's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo about American soldiers who guard a philosophical tiger while on active service in the Iraq War. Tighe appeared in both the New York and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles productions, replacing Robin Williams. He received accolades for his Tiger appearances. He was named in a Best Performance in a Play award by the Garland Award in 2010.

On the Mirror Stage of the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in Seattle in 2012, Tighe played Fredrik in Anatomy of Pain. Tighe appeared in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class in 2013 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven with Judith Ivey. In his approach to Shepard's performance, he had the following thoughts: "You must be aware of naturalism," the actor says. You'll have to wait for a while before trying to land." Tighe appeared with Pamela Reed at ACT Theatre in Seattle later this year.

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