Introduction
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. 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 resistor.
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, 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.