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

. 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'', playing different characters – "

The Boys in the Bar "The Boys in the Bar" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American situation comedy television series ''Cheers''. It originally aired on January 27, 1983, on NBC. It is co-written by Ken Levine and David Isaacs and directed by ...

" 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 ''Lethal Weapon 2'' is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit. It is a sequel to the 1987 film ''Lethal Weapon'' ...

'' (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 Loki.

Filmography

Television works (selected)

References

External links

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