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

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Life

Kenneth Leslie Tigar was born into a Jewish family in

Chelsea, Massachusetts Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. As of the 2020 census, Chelsea had a population of 40,787. With a total area of just 2.46 square miles, Chelsea is the ...

, and raised in the Greater Boston Area. He received his BA and Ph.D. in

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from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

. As an undergraduate, he was active in theater as both an actor and a director. He spent a year at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

and performed in Vienna and other European cities.

Career

He has appeared in numerous television shows, including starring as the short-tempered Captain Jensen in '' L.A. Heat'' from 1997 to 1999, appearing in a total of 47 episodes. He guest-starred in two episodes of ''

Cheers ''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association w ...

'', playing different characters – " The Boys in the Bar" in Season 1 as a gay character called Fred, and later in Season 4's " Don Juan Is Hell", as a professor of Diane's. Tigar's film roles include playing a bomb squad leader in '' Lethal Weapon 2'' (1989) and ''

Lethal Weapon 3 ''Lethal Weapon 3'' is a 1992 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner and written by Jeffrey Boam and Robert Mark Kamen. The sequel to '' Lethal Weapon 2'' (1989), it is the third installment in the ''Lethal Weapon'' film ser ...

'' (1992), and in '' The Avengers'' (2012), in which he has a brief but pivotal part as a German resister to

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Filmography

Television works (selected)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tigar, Kenneth 1942 births 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American translators 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male television actors German–English translators Harvard University alumni Living people Male actors from Massachusetts People from Chelsea, Massachusetts