10.0
10.0
Face of a Stranger
1991
as Richard Foster
Kevin Tighe
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Southern California, USC School of Dramatic Arts, Pasadena High School
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Kevin Tighe (; born Jon Kevin Fishburn; August 13, 1944) is an American actor who has worked in television, film, and theater since the late 1960s. He is best known for portraying firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto, on the 1972–1977 NBC series Emergency! Tighe was cast in his first major film as an extra in 1967's The Graduate. After being under contract with Paramount and Universal, 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 appearances in television shows such as Ellery Queen, Cos, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, and The Six Million Dollar Man. Aside from The Graduate, some of Tighe's film credits include Road House, City of Hope, 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 America series Salem. In 2025, he had a brief role in the Paul Thomas Anderson action-thriller film One Battle After Another. Tighe has also been seen in a number of stage productions, including A Reckoning, Mourning Becomes Electra, Anna Christie, Other Desert Cities, and Curse of the Starving Class.
Filmography (41 movies)
9.0
9.0
The Mountain Runners
2012
as Narrator
8.3
8.3
Emergency!
1972
as Roy DeSoto
7.7
7.7
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
as Ken Carver
7.4
7.4
Matewan
1987
as Bill Hickey
7.3
7.3
One Battle After Another
2025
as Roy More
7.0
7.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990
as Steven Elliott
6.9
6.9
Eight Men Out
1988
as Sport Sullivan
6.7
6.7
Road House
1989
as Frank Tilghman
6.6
6.6
Double Cross
1994
as Brian Cody
6.6
6.6
Scorpion Spring
1996
as California County Sheriff Rawley Gill
6.6
6.6
I Love a Man in Uniform
1993
as Frank
6.6
6.6
City of Hope
1991
as O'Brien
6.5
6.5
Mumford
1999
as Mr. Crisp
6.5
6.5
School Ties
1992
as Coach McDevitt
6.3
6.3
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
as Brig. Gen. Nelson Miles
6.2
6.2
K-9
1989
as Lyman
6.1
6.1
Winchell
1998
as William Randolph Hearst
6.0
6.0
I Am I
2013
as Gene
6.0
6.0
Betrayal of Trust
1994
as Bill Carroll
6.0
6.0
Fast Food High
2003
as Dave Richter
6.0
6.0
Another 48 Hrs.
1990
as Blake Wilson
5.6
5.6
The Deal
2005
as John Cortland
5.6
5.6
Hello
2014
as Donald
5.6
5.6
Nancy Drew
2002
as Coach Jeffries
5.6
5.6
My Bloody Valentine
2009
as Ben Foley
5.5
5.5
Caught in the Act
1993
as Police Detective
5.4
5.4
Jade
1995
as D.A. Arnold Clifford
5.4
5.4
Escape to Witch Mountain
1995
as Sheriff Bronson
5.2
5.2
The Sight
2000
as Jake
5.1
5.1
Men of War
1994
as Colonel Merrick
5.1
5.1
Race the Sun
1996
as Jack Fryman
5.1
5.1
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
as William Gottschalk
4.8
4.8
Narcotics: Pit of Despair
1967
as John Scott
4.7
4.7
The Avenging Angel
1995
as Benjamin Rigby
4.4
4.4
The Darwin Conspiracy
1999
as Allan Hollingsworth
4.3
4.3
Today You Die
2005
as Max Stevens
3.8
3.8
Better Off Dead.
1993
as D.A. John Byron
3.5
3.5
The Big Day
1999
as Joe
3.3
3.3
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
2003
The Saint in Manhattan
1987
as Insp. John Fernack
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