Kenneth Tigar

Kenneth Tigar
Born	(1942-09-24) September 24, 1942 Chelsea, Massachusetts
Occupation(s)	Actor, translator
Years active	1975–present

Kenneth Tigar (born September 24, 1942) is an American actor, primarily on American television, and translator.

Life

Tigar was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and raised in the Boston area. His Jewish family went to Beth El Temple Center in Belmont, Mass.

He received his BA and Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, he was active in theater as both an actor and a director. He spent a year at the University of Göttingen and performed in Vienna and other European cities.

Career

Tigar's most notable film roles were in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), as a bomb squad leader, and in The Avengers (2012), in which he has a brief but pivotal part as a German resister to Loki.

He starred as the short-tempered Captain Jensen in L.A. Heat from 1997 to 1999, appearing in a total of 47 episodes.

Tigar appeared in the TV movies The Hemingway Play (1976), The Rock Rainbow (1978), The Golden Gate Murders (1979), The Babysitter (1980), The Big Black Pill (1981), Thursday's Child (1983), Special Bulletin (1983), Missing Pieces (1983), Great Day (1983), Dirty Work (1985), Second Serve (1986), The Betty Ford Story (1987), Roe vs. Wade (1989). He portrayed Thomas Dewey in the TV mini-series The Gangster Chronicles (1981), and portrayed Heinrich Himmler in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (2016–2019).

Since 1976 Tigar has appeared in dozens of popular American television series, including Kojak, The Waltons, Police Woman, Man from Atlantis (3 episodes), Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files, Wonder Woman (twice), Barnaby Jones, Eight is Enough, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller (6 episodes), CHiPS, Lou Grant (3 episodes), The Facts of Life, Knight Rider, One Day at a Time, Hart to Hart, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Simon & Simon, Cheers (twice), Hill Street Blues (twice), Magnum, P.I., Hunter, Webster, Mr. Belvedere, Night Court (twice), Dallas (4 episodes in 1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dynasty (5 episodes in 1988-1989), Who's the Boss?, ALF, Amen, Growing Pains (5 episodes), Knots Landing, Baywatch, Newhart, Quantum Leap, Murphy Brown, Family Law ,The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, L.A. Law (twice), The Commish, Mad About You, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Murder She Wrote, ER, the pilot episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The X-Files, The West Wing, Judging Amy, Touched by an Angel, NYPD Blue, NCIS, Will & Grace, Law & Order (twice), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife (3 episodes), Madam Secretary, House of Cards (4 episodes) and Bull.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	The Happy Hooker	Steve	Screen debut
1978	The Gypsy Warriors	SS Captain Schullman
1981	Gangster Wars	Thomas E. Dewey
1985	Just One of the Guys	Mr. Raymaker
	Creator	Pavlo
1987	Jake's M.O.	Sol Godlman
1988	18 Again!	Professor Swivet
	Phantasm II	Father Meyers
1989	Lethal Weapon 2	Becker (bomb squad leader)
	The Runnin' Kind	Stan Shank
1992	Lethal Weapon 3	Becker (bomb squad leader)
1993	My Life	Dr. Califano
	Snapdragon	Captain
1995	Jade	Corporate Man
	Rage	Harry
1996	Cadillac Ranch	Clown	(as Ken Tigar)
	Primal Fear	Weil
	Riot	Harry Johansen
1997	Little Bigfoot	Largo
	Conspiracy Theory	Lawyer
	Hollywood Safari	Sheriff Todd
	A Thousand Acres	Doctor
	The Underground	Tim Scully
2000	Blessed Art Thou	Robert
2005	Time of Fear	Coroner
2012	The Avengers	Old German Man
2014	The Union	Earl
2015	Hell's Heart	Father Francis

Television

Year	Production	Role	Notes
2017	The Show	Himself	References External links Kenneth Tigar at IMDb