Michael Hogan (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian actor best known for playing Colonel Saul Tigh in the 2004 ''

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'' series. Other notable roles include Billy in '' The Peanut Butter Solution'' and villainous werewolf hunter Gerard Argent in ''

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''. He also lent his voice to Armando-Owen Bailey in the ''

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'' series, General Tullius in '' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'' game, and Doc Mitchell in the videogame '' Fallout: New Vegas''.

Biography

Michael Hogan was born in

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in 1949, raised in

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and studied at National Theatre School of Canada.

Career

Hogan began his career in 1978 and has starred in numerous TV shows, plays, radio dramas and operas. He started in plays at the Shaw Festival. He made his film debut in the Peter Fonda trucker picture '' High-Ballin''' (1978). He and his wife soon became a popular television couple, as the stars of the 1983 Canadian series ''Vanderberg'' and the 1986 Canadian-German series '' The Little Vampire''. In 1985, he also starred in the children's film '' The Peanut Butter Solution''. Hogan portrayed Jack Budyansky in ''Diplomatic Immunity'' (1990) and in ''Solitaire'' (1991). He was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for the former role and won it for the latter. In 1998, he portrayed Tony Logozzo in '' Cold Squad'' (1998). Hogan was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries, for the 2003 telefilm ''Betrayed''. From 2003 to 2009, Hogan starred as Colonel Saul Tigh, Executive Officer of the Battlestar ''Galactica'' on the Sci Fi Channel television program ''Battlestar Galactica''. He portrayed Irwin Fairbanks in ''

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'' (2004–2006). He also had a recurring role on the hit MTV show ''

'' (2012-2017) as Gerard Argent, the werewolf-hunting grandfather of Allison Argent and the latest nemesis of main protagonist, Scott McCall. He made guest appearances on ''

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'' (1997), '' The Outer Limits'' (1997), ''Andromeda'' (2002), in the two-hour premiere of ''

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'' (2002), '' Dollhouse'' (2009), ''

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'' (2009), ''

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'' (2009), ''

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'' (2010), ''

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'' (2011), and the third season of the sitcom '' Husbands''. Hogan's movies include ''Road to Saddle River'', ''Clearcut'', ''Stella'', ''Cowboys Don't Cry'' and ''The Cutting Edge'' and the telefilms ''Dead Man's Gun'', ''Shadow Lake'', ''Scorn'', ''Shadow Realm'' and ''Nights Below Station Street'', for which he received the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association's Blizzard Award for Best Leading Actor. He appeared in the romance horror film '' Red Riding Hood'' (2011). Hogan has also lent his voice to the video game industry, providing the voice of Captain Armando-Owen Bailey in the

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s (RPG) '' Mass Effect 2'' and ''

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'', as well as the opening character, Doc Mitchell, in '' Fallout: New Vegas''. Hogan also voiced the character General Tullius in the RPG, '' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim''.Rubin, Brian P. (September 27, 2011
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Inside Gaming Daily. Most recently, he lent his voice as Samael in the American release of the Korean multiplayer role-playing game '' TERA'' (2012).

Personal life

On February 17, 2020, Hogan sustained a

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after falling and hitting his head. This caused

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of his left side,

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, and

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. The slip and fall accident happened at a dinner event following a ''Battlestar Galactica'' fan convention.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hogan, Michael 1949 births Living people Canadian male television actors Canadian male film actors Canadian male voice actors Best Supporting Actor Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 20th-century Canadian male actors 21st-century Canadian male actors People from Kirkland Lake People with traumatic brain injuries Male actors from Ontario