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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 is known as Firefighter-Paramedic Roy DeSoto on the NBC series Emergency!.

Tighe was cast in his first major film as an extra in 1967's The Graduate. After a stint in the United States Army, he was put under contract with Paramount and then with Universal in 1971. Tighe's career took a turn from bit parts and extra work when he was cast as Roy DeSoto in a new 1972 television series, Emergency!, which ran until 1977. Following Emergency!, Tighe made numerous guest television appearances in shows such as Ellery Queen, Cos, and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. Aside from The Graduate, some of Tighe's film credits include Road House, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Jade. Tighe won a 1994 Genie Award for best supporting actor in I Love a Man in Uniform. In the 2000s he played Anthony Cooper on the ABC television series, Lost as well as Giles Corey in the premiere episode of the original WGN series, Salem.

Tighe has also been seen in a number of stage productions including A Reckoning, Other Desert Cities, Curse of the Starving Class, and A Skull in Connemara.

Biography

Tighe was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of an actor, his family ancestry being Czech-Bohemian and Irish. When he was five, Tighe moved with his family from Los Angeles to nearby Pasadena. It was there that he began acting at an early age, auditioning for juvenile leads at the Pasadena Playhouse. Tighe later attended and then graduated in 1962 from Pasadena High School. Following high school, he went on to attend Pasadena City College before receiving an undergraduate degree from USC and then an MFA for acting in 1967. After USC, Tighe was drafted in the United States Army. Because of an injury to his finger, he was stationed for two years at Fort Knox rather than being sent to Vietnam.

Since 1985, Tighe has resided in Skagit County, Washington with his wife, artist Rebecca Fletcher. From there he travels to New York and Los Angeles to do work in theater, film, and television. Tighe has a daughter from his first marriage, Jennifer Tighe, an actress with whom he has appeared in the stage production, A Reckoning.

Career

Early work (1970s)

Tighe's his first film appearance was in 1967 as an extra in The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman. Following The Graduate, Tighe did two more films: Narcotics: Pit of Despair and Yours, Mine and Ours.

After being discharged from the Army, Tighe appeared at the Taper Theater in Los Angeles in "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine" and in Noël Coward's "Design for Living" at the Ahmanson Theatre, also in Los Angeles. After this, he went on to perform in "Design for Living" with the National Theatre of Great Britain. It was during this time period that Tighe worked with a number of well-known actors including Lorne Greene, Maggie Smith, and Michael Landon before signing a contract with Universal Studios. During Tighe's tenure at Paramount, he appeared on NBC's Bonanza in the episode, "The Weary Willies".

Emergency! (1972–1979)

Prior to leaving for Europe, he auditioned for a new Jack Webb television series, Emergency!. He landed the role and was signed to play paramedic Roy DeSoto, opposite Randolph Mantooth, Robert Fuller, Julie London, and Bobby Troup. The show ran for six seasons, 1972–1977. The onscreen camaraderie between Tighe and Mantooth, as well as with Troup and London carried over to real life outside of the show. All four remained close friends long after the series came to a close, and Tighe served as best man at Mantooth's second wedding in 2002.

Producer Robert A. Cinader saw Mantooth in a small role on The Bold Ones opposite Hal Holbrook that led to his decision to cast him as Firefighter/Paramedic John Gage on the long-running TV series, Emergency! and Mantooth was paired with Tighe's character, Roy DeSoto, opposite actors-singers Julie London and Bobby Troup. Tighe and actor Randolph Mantooth as Firefighter/Paramedic John Gage were part of a paramedic team assigned to Squad 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Responding to accidents or dangerous rescues in an “emergency room on wheels” with directions via biophone from medical personnel back at the hospital, the paramedics performed Advance Lifesaving (ALS) techniques to stabilize injured, ill, and dying patients before transporting them to a medical facility.

To train for their parts, the actors, Tighe along with Randolph Mantooth, "...sat in on paramedic classes" (although they never took any written exams) "and rode out on extensive ride-a-longs with LACoFD". In an interview with Tom Blixa of WTVN, Mantooth said that the producer wanted them to train so that they would at least know the fundamentals and look like they knew what they were doing on camera. Mantooth mentioned that unless you take the written course you are not a paramedic.

According to authors Richard Yokley and Roxane Sutherland who wrote the book, Emergency! Behind the Scenes, the show Emergency! is an important chapter in television history. When the world premiere was first broadcast in 1972, there were only 12 paramedic units in all of North America. Ten years later, more than half of all Americans were within ten minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit, due to the influence of the show. The program introduced audiences from all over the world to the concept of pre-hospital care, along with fire prevention and CPR. In a 2006 Seattle radio interview, Tighe cited that Emergency! was something they could see in their own lives. "It resonated with working people and I was always very proud of that fact. It promoted the paramedics program."

The show ran six seasons (129 episodes) with seven two-hour television movie specials including the pilot film (The Wedsworth-Townsend Act). with a national audience that averaged 30 million viewers each week. Tighe directed four episodes of Emergency!: "Gossip" (1974), "Inventions" (1974), Equipment (1975), and "Fair Fight" (1977). In addition to directing, Tighe also wrote one episode for the show, "Up all Night" (1977). Tighe and Mantooth did many of their own stunts in the early years with the rule of thumb, "if you could see our faces, it was us doing the stunts, if you couldn't, it was our stunt double."

Nearly 30 years after Emergency! debuted, the Smithsonian Institute accepted Emergency! memorabilia into its American History Museum in the public service division and not entertainment on May 16, 2000. Items inducted at the Smithsonian included their uniforms, scripts, helmets, turnouts, biophone, and defibrillator. In conjunction to the induction of the equipment from Emergency! at the Smithsonian, Project 51 was created as a way to raise funds for a children's burn charity, and show the restored squad around the country. Mantooth along with Marco Lopez, Tim Donnelly, Ron Pinkard, and Mike Stoker embarked on a 10-city tour with the squad to raise funds for charity on their way to Washington, DC, with their final destination being the Smithsonian. Project 51 folded after the equipment was inducted into the Smithsonian and the funds were distributed to burn centers, fire education projects, and museums. Tighe was unable to attend the events due to filming in Europe, but he did participate in Project 51 by interviewing several of the doctors connected to the beginnings of paramedicine for Project 51's website.

In 2012, Tighe and Mantooth were presented with the traditional white leather cairns helmets by the Los Angeles County Fire Department as Honorary Fire Chiefs of the department. The honor was bestowed on the men for their contributions to the fire service and emergency medicine through educating and inspiring kids and adults to be firefighters, EMTs, or paramedics. The show contributed to the revolution in emergency medicine and mobile health across the country.

Tighe, along with Mantooth, appear in a video presentation The Pioneers of Paramedicine Story, a project done in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Fire Museum. It is an effort to document and record the history of the paramedicine program. Originally filmed in 2001, with additional scenes filmed in 2013, discussions include four doctors: Eugene Nagel, MD from Miami; Leonard Cobb, MD, Seattle; J. Michael Criley, MD, Los Angeles; and Walter Graf, MD, in Los Angeles. These doctors pioneered the idea of mobile medicine and paramedics based on early ideas in Northern Ireland and Russia.

The series was sold into syndication in 1977 as Emergency! One to some local stations in the late 1970s. It was called Emergency! One because the show was still filming in the United States. After the show ended filming, the name reverted to Emergency! The show was sold overseas and aired in a number of countries, including Italy, Peru, Spain, Argentina, Sweden, and Germany. In Germany, it was renamed Notruf California, in addition to being dubbed in Spanish in the United States. In the late 1990s and 2000s, Emergency! began airing cable and digital sub-channels networks that included TV Land, RTV, and MeTV. Emergency! spun off an animated version called Emergency +4 which ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1976, of which Tighe's voice was used, along with Randolph Mantooth's. Starship Rescue aired in 1973 to promote NBC's fall lineup of Saturday morning programs focusing on Emergency! and Star Trek: The Animated Series and it was hosted by Mantooth and Tighe. Tighe and Mantooth also presented the work of firefighters and paramedics from the Los Angeles County Fire Department on the NBC Saturday morning's children's show, Go!.

Tighe's and Randolph Mantooth's likeness were used for games, puzzles, lunch boxes, action figures, and comic books connected to the show. The comic books for Emergency focused on the primary actors from Rampart Hospital, along with Johnny and Roy. The four comic books and four magazines were issued by Charlton Comics in 1976. Some of the issues were drawn by John Byrne and Neal Adams. Emergency! +4 and Emergency! both had coloring books that were created to promote the show to young viewers using the likenesses of the five principal characters. Viewmaster released a series of reels that had film stills of the show arranged in a story or photo montage.

The onscreen camaraderie between Tighe and Mantooth, as well as with both Julie London and Bobby Troup (who played Nurse Dixie McCall and Dr. Joe Early respectively) carried over to real life as well. Through his friendship with Troug and London, Tighe had the opportunity to many Jazz musicians and artists. Before London's and Troup's deaths, all four remained close friends after the series came to a close, and Tighe served as a best man at Mantooth's second wedding in 2002.

1970s and 1980s

While on Emergency!, Tighe appeared as his character, Roy DeSoto, from the show appeared on two other shows created by Robert A. Cinader, Sierra on the episode, "The Urban Rangers", in the high Sierras ranger station. Tighe also appeared as his Emergency! character on the episode, "Lost and Found" on Adam-12.

After Emergency!'s run on television ended, Tighe continue to do episodic television and appeared as Detective Jim MIllay on Ellery Queen, Cos, Steve on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Root on The Six Million Dollar Man, and Chris on The Love Boat. Tighe also appeared on the CBS Library production of "Orphans, Waifs, and Wards". In 1979, Tighe appeared as Thomas Jefferson in the adaptation of the John Jakes's novel, The Rebels, part of The Kent Family Chronicles.

Tighe taught drama at USC and returned to acting study in order to refresh his acting skills during the slow "post-Emergency" period and worked in summer stock theater in the east. During this time, Tighe studied acting with Robert Lewis and Stella Adler in New York City. Tighe was also in the summer stock company directed by Alfred Christie at the Hampton Playhouse in 1980 in Hampton, N.H. Tighe also did summer stock work at William Putch's Totem Pole Playhouse in Caledonia, Pennsylvania in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The plays Tighe did at the Hampton Playhouse and Totem Pole included "Come Blow Your Horn" and "Two for the Seesaw." Tighe made his Broadway debut at the Music Box Theatre in the play, Open Admissions, that closed after two weeks. During the early and mid 1980's, Tighe continued to do theater on both coasts. Tighe acted in "Night of the Iguana" with McCarter Theatre Company, in Princeton, NJ; Mark Weller's "The Ballad of Soapy Smith" in 1983 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle; and the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public Theatre in New York City. He also received a NEA fellowship for directing 1989 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Tighe also wrote and directed "Homegirl" for the Seattle Repertory theater in 1986.

In 1986, he returned to Los Angeles and began working in television and movies. He appeared as Hickey in Matewan in 1987; Joseph "Sport" Sullivan on Eight Men Out, a 1988 drama focusing in the infamous Black Sox scandal in 1911; Dr. Gaeyl in Lost Angels; Lyman in K-9; and Tilghman in Road House with Patrick Swayze. Tighe's character, Tilghman wanted to turn the Road house bar into a higer class establishment and target a different class of people. In a 2006 interview for a theatrical production, Meyers suggested that Road House was a mixture of absurdism and realism similar to a Shepard play. Tighe responded with "I've gotten more comments on that movie than any other film I've ever done," Tighe is constantly amazed by its broad audience appeal, "Working class people like it, (college kids), white people, black people. I think a lot of that is due to the music ... the movie had great music." His return to acting in film and television also included an appearance on an anthology program, CBS Playhouse.

1990s

During the 1990s, Tighe emerged as character actor with depth and experience. He specialized in characters with an edge or authority figures. Tighe's work in the 1990s included work on episodic television and television movies. His work on episodic television in crime, drama, and science-fiction on the networks and cable channels. Tighe appeared on episodes of Murder, She Wrote, Tales from the Crypt, Under Suspicion, Chicago Hope, The Single Guy, ER, The Outer Limits. Tighe appeared as police detective, David Blalock, on the crime and legal drama, Murder One for six episodes. Tighe appeared as Henry Janeway, an ancestor of Captain Janeway, on Star Trek:Voyager.

Tighe made appearances in a number different television movies during the 1990s. Tighe had roles on Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter Face of a Stranger, Yesterday Today, Better Off Dead, Caught in the Act, Betrayal of Trust, The Avenging Angel, the remake of Escape to Witch Mountain, The 119, In Cold Blood, The Darwin Conspiracy, and portrayed the newspaper legend William Randolph Hearst in Winchell.

Tighe continued to expand his body of work in film and appeared a number of well received films. Tighe's roles in film included lawyers, cops, and military figures. Tighe played Blake Wilson on Another 48 Hrs. with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte; The Man in Bright Angel; O'Brien in City of Hope; Snyder in Newsies a dramatic musical about newspaper boys; Coach Devitt in School Ties; Brian Cody inDouble Cross; Colonel Merrick in Men of War with Dolph Lundgren; D. A. Arnold Clifford in Jade; Mr. Kessler in The Ticket; Jack Fryman inRace the Sun with Halle Berry and the movie based on a true story; California County Sheriff Rawley Gill in Scorpion Spring; The Wetonkawa Flash; and Mr. Crisp in Mumford.

Tighe is remembered for his role as Ken Carver in What's Eating Gilbert Grape with Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio; Brigadier General Nelson Miles Geronimo: An American Legend with Wes Studi, Jason Patric, and Matt Damon; and as Frank in I Love a Man in Uniform for which he won a Genie Award for best supporting actor in 1994.

Tighe still found time during the 1990s to continue his work in theater. Tighe appeared in three different roles: 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 do plays in the 1990s at the Seattle Repertory Theatre including "Hedda Gabler" in 1992.

2000s to present

Tighe continued to do episodic work on both cable and network television by appearing on Freaks and Geeks, Family Law, The West Wing where he portrayed Governor Jack Buckland, Strange World, Everwood, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The 4400, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the early 2000s. On Lost, he appeared numerous times (2005–2010) as Anthony Cooper, father of John Locke. Tighe has also made appearances on the following shows: Numb3rs as Keith Watts (2008), Leverage for two episodes as Ian Blackpoole (2009), Lie to Me as Fletcher Bellwood (2009), and Trauma as Captain Channing (2010), which was intended as a nod to Emergency!. Tighe's most recent episodic television work includes Common Law, Complications, and Salem.

Tighe's body of work during the 2000s on television includes two movies and mini-series. Tighe appeared as Jake in the The Sight, and Coach Jeffries on Nancy Drew. Tighe also appeared as Victor Kandinsky in a mini-series based on Stephen King's novel, Rose Red.

Tighe did voice work as a narrator for the documentary, The Mountain Runners, examining the mountain marathon runners at Mt Hood in the early 1900s. Tighe was interviewed for America on Stage which examined the development of new plays funded by the National Endowment for the Arts or NEA. Tighe also appeared on the documentary that was aired on the PBS program, Independent Lens. The documentary examined the development and staging of a new play in "Playwright: From Page to Stage".

Tighe continued to work heavily in film and has appeared as Joe in The Big Day, Dave Richter in Fast Food High, Donald inHello, John Cortland inThe Deal, Max Stevens in Today You Die and Ben Foley in My Bloody Valentine. Tighe also appeared as William Gottschalk in three of the Tulse Luper films: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story; The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp; and A Life in Suitcases. Tighe's most recent film appearance is Gene in I am I.

Tighe continued to work in regional and repertory theater since 2000 on the east coast, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The bulk of his work has been done in Seattle near his home. Tighe played Mick Dowd, a gravedigger, in Martin McDonagh's "A Skull in Connemara" at ACT Theatre in Seattle in 2000. The production eventually moved to New York in 2001, where it was performed at the Roundabout Theatre Company and Gramercy Theatre in New York six months later. The production proved to be popular with the audience and resonated with the young people. Tighe cited that the extra time for rehearsals and preparation "provides a heightened reality and brings out comic qualities so essential to the work." Tighe played Brigadier General Ezra Mannon in "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays by Eugene O'Neill connected to "Homecoming", "The Hunted", and "The Haunted". It was initially performed at the ACT Theatre in early 2001 with actress, Jane Alexander. The play was was staged later in 2001, with Tighe and Alexander in the cast, at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.

Tighe also did plays in San Francisco where he worked with his daughter, Jennifer in "A Reckoning" in 2005 at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Tighe played Matt in "Anna Christie" along with Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" and Yuri Lubymov’s production of "Crime And Punishment" on The Arena Stage at the Kreeger Theatre in Washington, D.C. Theatre is known for examining social ideas and issues and that was not an exception regarding role of Salter in "A Number" performed at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. Tighe's character, Salter, examines parent-child relationships in five concentrated scenes through his three cloned, but very different sons and the nature of human bonds. The play explores the human consequences of human cloning.

Tighe played the title role in Rajiv Joseph's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," a dark, surreal drama about the lives of American soldiers who guard a philosophical tiger (Tighe) while on duty in the Iraq War. Tighe played the role in both the New York and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles productions, replacing Robin Williams, Tighe won positive reviews for his performance of the Tiger. Backstage Magazine's Garland awarded best Performance in a Play, winning for his performance as Tiger in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.

Tighe played Fredrik in "Anatomy of Pain" on the Mirror Stage at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in Seattle in 2012. In a Sam Shepard play, Tighe played Weston in "Curse of the Starving Class" in 2013 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT with Judith Ivey, in an absurdist examination of family life and struggles. Tighe had the following thoughts in his approach to doing Shepard's play, "You have to beware of naturalism, which is the place actors tend to go into. You have to leave the ground for awhile and then hope you land." Later in 2013, Tighe played Lyman Wyeth in Other Desert Cities with Pamela Reed at ACT Theatre in Seattle.

Filmography

Main article Kevin Tighe filmography

TV series and appearances

TV movies

Feature Films

Documentaries

• The Mountain Runners narrator (2012)
• America on Stage himself (2013)
• Independent Lens presents "Playwright: From page to stage" (2013)

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External links

• Kevin Tighe at IMDb

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• 1944 births
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