work in theater and appeared in three different roles: Hilton Lasker, Swifty, and Lord Kitterson in The End of the Day: An Entertainment at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, in 1989 and 1990. Tighe continued to do plays in the 1990s at the Seattle Repertory Theatre including Hedda Gabler in 1992. 2000s Tighe continued to do episodic work on both cable and network television and appeared on Freaks and Geeks, Family Law, The West Wing portraying Governor of Indiana Jack Buckland, Strange World, Everwood, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The 4400, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Tighe appeared numerous times on ABC show, Lost, as Anthony Cooper, father of John Locke. His work included episodes of Numb3rs, Leverage, and Lie to Me. His work on television included two movies and mini-series. Tighe appeared in The Sight, and Nancy Drew. He has also continued to work heavily in film and has appeared in Fast Food High, The Deal, Today You Die, and My Bloody Valentine. Tighe portrayed William Gottschalk in three of the Tulse Luper films: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp, and A Life in Suitcases. Tighe worked in regional and repertory theater, with the bulk of his stage work in Seattle. Tighe played Mick Dowd, a gravedigger, in Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara at ACT Theatre in Seattle in 2000. Six months later, the production moved to New York, where it played at the Roundabout Theatre Company and Gramercy Theatre. He played Brigadier General Ezra Mannon in Mourning Becomes Electra and the play was initially performed at the ACT Theatre with Jane Alexander in 2001. The play was staged later in 2001 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Tighe and Alexander in the cast. Tighe worked with his daughter, Jennifer, in A Reckoning at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Tighe played Matt in Anna Christie, along with Sam Shepard's Buried Child, and Yuri Lubymov's production of Crime And Punishment on The Arena Stage at the Kreeger Theatre in Washington, D.C. Tighe played Salter in A Number, exploring the human consequences of cloning. at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. His character examines parent-child relationships in five concentrated scenes through his three cloned sons and the nature of human bonds. 2010 to present Tighe played Captain Channing on Trauma. His recent episodic television work includes Common