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DeutschMichael Hogan (Canadian actor)
Michael Hogan | |
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 Hogan at the 2018 FedCon | |
| Born | 13 March 1949 Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | National Theatre School of Canada |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse | Susan Hogan |
| Children | 4, including Gabriel |
Michael Hogan (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian actor best known for playing Colonel Saul Tigh in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series. Other notable roles include Billy in The Peanut Butter Solution and villainous werewolf hunter Gerard Argent in Teen Wolf. He also lent his voice to Armando-Owen Bailey in the Mass Effect series, General Tullius in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game, and Doc Mitchell in the videogame Fallout: New Vegas.
Biography
[edit]Michael Hogan was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario in 1949, raised in North Bay, Ontario and studied at National Theatre School of Canada.[1]
Career
[edit]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.[2]
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 The L Word (2004–2006). He also had a recurring role on the hit MTV show Teen Wolf (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 Millennium (1997), The Outer Limits (1997), Andromeda (2002), in the two-hour premiere of Monk (2002),[3] Dollhouse (2009), Numb3rs (2009), Warehouse 13 (2009), Psych (2010), Supernatural (2011), and the third season of the sitcom Husbands.[4][5]
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.[6] He appeared in the romance horror film Red Riding Hood (2011).[7]
Hogan has also lent his voice to the video game industry, providing the voice of Captain Armando-Owen Bailey in the role-playing games (RPG) Mass Effect 2[8] and Mass Effect 3, as well as the opening character, Doc Mitchell, in Fallout: New Vegas.[9] Hogan also voiced the character General Tullius in the RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.[10] Most recently, he lent his voice as Samael in the American release of the Korean multiplayer role-playing game TERA (2012).[11]
Personal life
[edit]On February 17, 2020, Hogan sustained a brain injury after falling and hitting his head. This caused paralysis of his left side, memory loss, and dysphagia.[12] The slip and fall accident happened at a dinner event following a Battlestar Galactica fan convention.[13]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | High-Ballin' | Reggie | |
| 1980 | Klondike Fever | Will Ryan | |
| 1981 | Gas | Guido Vespucci | |
| 1982 | Deadly Eyes | Cop in Subway | |
| 1983 | Candy the Stripper | Larry | Direct-to-video |
| 1985 | The Peanut Butter Solution | Billy | |
| 1986 | Lost! | Bob | |
| 1988 | Palais Royale | Sergeant Leonard | |
| Cowboys Don't Cry | Ron Grady | ||
| 1990 | Stella | Billy | |
| 1991 | Diplomatic Immunity | Jack Budyansky | |
| Solitaire | Al | ||
| Clearcut | Bud Rickets | ||
| 1992 | The Visit | Bristol | Short film |
| The Cutting Edge | Doctor | ||
| 1994 | I Love a Man in Uniform | Detective Itch | |
| Road to Saddle River | Louis | ||
| 1995 | Soul Survivor | Donald | |
| 2000 | Marine Life | Humphrey | |
| 2001 | Gasline | Kenny | Short film |
| 2005 | A Simple Curve | Jim | |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | General | |
| 2010 | Confined | Fitz Wolfram | |
| Hunt to Kill | Lawson | ||
| 2011 | Under | Frank | Short film |
| Pleased to Meet You | Bob | ||
| Red Riding Hood | The Reeve | ||
| Hypoxia | Captain | Short film | |
| Searching for Sonny | Principal Faden | ||
| 2012 | By My Side | Russell Grant | Short film |
| 2014 | Balls Out | Mr. Albrecht | |
| 2019 | The Devil Has a Name | Judge | |
| 2020 | Sonic the Hedgehog | Air Force Chief of Staff |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980–1984 | The Littlest Hobo | Chuck/Lucky/Policeman | Guest role; 3 episodes |
| 1981 | The Intruder Within | Chili | Television film |
| 1983 | Vanderberg | Hank Vanderberg | |
| 1984 | He's Fired, She's Hired | Freddie's Ad Man | Television film |
| 1985 | The Suicide Murders | Bill Ward | |
| 1986 | Kay O'Brien | Sean McCandliss | Episode: "Big Vacation" |
| Adderly | Shankill | Episode: "Adderly with Eggroll" | |
| 1986–1987 | The Little Vampire | Robert Besker | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 1988 | The Twilight Zone | Sheriff Roy | Episode: "The Hunters" |
| 1988–1991 | Street Legal | Warden Vanderklat/Brent Elliot | Guest role; 3 episodes |
| 1989 | E.N.G. | Crothers | Episodes: "E.N.G. Pilot: Part 1" and "Part 2" |
| 1990 | Mom P.I. | Vic Stevens | Episode: "Spinal Trap" |
| War of the Worlds | Nash | Episode: "The True Believer" | |
| Counterstrike | Father Milady | Episode: "Now and at the Hour of Our Death" | |
| The Last Best Year | Billy Haller | Television film | |
| 1991 | African Skies | Hooker | Episode: "Crocodile Tears" |
| 1992 | Beyond Reality | Jebidiah Smith | Episode: "The Burning Judge" |
| I'll Fly Away | Eddie | Episode: "Ruler of My Heart" | |
| Hearts Afire | Tom Dybala Jr. | Episode: "Smithersgate" | |
| 1993 | Road to Avonlea | Mr. Dunn | Episode: "Home Movie" |
| Matrix | Dr. Martin Sands | Episode: "Conviction of His Courage" | |
| Lifeline to Victory | Chief Engineer | Television film | |
| 1994 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Duncan | Episode: "The Innocent" |
| 1995 | End of Summer | The General | Television film |
| 1996 | Jake and the Kid | Gate | Episodes: "Full Circle" and "Looks Can Be Deceiving" |
| For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down | Alvin | Television film | |
| The Boys Next Door | Dr. Racine | ||
| A Kidnapping in the Family | |||
| 1997 | Millennium | Captain Bigelow | Episode: "The Wild and the Innocent" |
| Two | Officer Pierce | Episode: "Leap of Faith" | |
| The Outer Limits | Dr. Lawrence Sinclair | Episode: "Last Supper" | |
| Ellen Foster | Principal | Television film | |
| 1997–1998 | Dead Man's Gun | Flagg/Sheriff Haynes | Episodes: "My Brother's Keeper" and "Ties That Bind" |
| 1998 | Due South | George | Episode: "Mountie Sings the Blues" |
| Nights Below Station Street | Joe Walsh | Television film | |
| 1998–1999 | Cold Squad | Detective Tony Logozzo | Series regular (seasons 1-2); 24 episodes |
| 1998 | Nothing Sacred | Television film | |
| 1999 | Shadow Lake | ||
| First Wave | Mr. Bennett | Episode: "Normal, Illinois" | |
| 2000 | Earth: Final Conflict | Detective | Episode: "Apparition" |
| Scorn | Ralph | Television film | |
| 2001 | UC: Undercover | Sergeant Drake | Episode: "City on Fire" |
| Night Visions | Larry | Episode: "Harmony" | |
| So Weird | Sam Hardy | Episode: "Gone Fishin" | |
| 2002 | The Eleventh Hour | Milt | Also known as Bury the Lead Episode: "The 37-Year-Itch" |
| Mysterious Ways | Andy Anderson | Episode: "Logan Miller" | |
| Monk | Warren St. Claire | Episodes: "Mr. Monk and the Candidate: Part 1" and "Part 2" | |
| Andromeda | Crescent | Episode: "The Leper's Kiss" | |
| Just Cause | Dane's Lawyer | Episode: "Lies, Speculation & Deception" | |
| The Investigation | Ray | Television film | |
| Shadow Realm | Larry | ||
| 2003 | Betrayed | Doug Bryce | |
| Battlestar Galactica | Colonel Saul Tigh | Television mini-series | |
| 2004 | Blue Murder | Colin Gladden | Episode: "Spooks" |
| 2004–2006 | The L Word | Irwin Fairbanks | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| 2004–2009 | Battlestar Galactica | Colonel Saul Tigh | Main role; 69 episodes |
| 2006 | Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance | Webseries; 6 episodes | |
| 2007 | Robot Chicken | Colonel Saul Tigh (voice)/Matt Trakker (voice) | Episode: "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" |
| Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Colonel Saul Tigh | Television film | |
| 2008–2009 | Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy | Webseries; 3 episodes | |
| 2009 | Warehouse 13 | Warren Bering | Episode: "Nevermore" |
| Dollhouse | Bradley Karrens | Episode: "Belle Chose" | |
| Numb3rs | Ray Till | Episode: "Old Soldiers" | |
| Battlestar Galactica: The Plan | Colonel Saul Tigh | Television film | |
| 2010 | Psych | William Tanner | Episode: "The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode" |
| Smallville | General Slade Wilson | Episodes: "Patriot" and "Icarus" | |
| 2011 | Heartland | Archie Morris | Episode: "What's in a Name?" |
| Supernatural | Sheriff Osbourne | Episode: "Slash Fiction" | |
| Ice Road Terror | Terry Lowman | Television film | |
| Snowmageddon | Fred Baker | ||
| 2012 | Fairly Legal | George Algers | Episode: "Satisfaction" |
| 2012–2013 | Arctic Air | Doc Hossa | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| 2012–2013, 2016–2017 | Teen Wolf | Gerard Argent | Main Role (Season 2), Recurring role (Seasons 3, 5-6); 22 episodes |
| 2013 | Republic of Doyle | Phonse | Episode: "Gimme Shelter" |
| The Mentalist | Sean Barlow | Episode: "Red John's Rules" | |
| Falling Skies | General Donovan | Episode: "At All Costs" | |
| Cult | Dr. Robert Kimble | Episode: "Flip the Script" | |
| Husbands | Scott | Recurring role; 5 episodes | |
| Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story | Terry Kindlon | Television film | |
| Haven | Lincoln Harker | S4E12: "When the Bough Breaks" | |
| 2014 | The Tomorrow People | Senator Kelsey | Episodes: "Kill Switch" and "Son of Man" |
| The Christmas Secret | Marshal Wilson | Television film | |
| 2015 | Fargo | Otto Gerhardt | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 2016 | 12 Monkeys | Dr. David Eckland | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Hagan / Ex-Preacher | Guest role; 4 episodes | |
| 2017 | You Me Her | Emma's father | Guest role; 2 episodes |
| Zoo | IADG Officer Grissam | Guest role; 4 episodes | |
| 2018 | Criminal Minds | Benjamin David Merva | Guest role; 2 episodes |
| The Magicians | Edwin | Episode: "The Art of the Deal" | |
| No Easy Days | Bob Carson | 8 episodes | |
| Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Grandfather Kinkle | Episode: "Chapter 7: Feast of Feasts" | |
| 2020 | When Calls the Heart | Archie Grant | Guest role; 2 episodes |
Video games
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mass Effect 2 | Captain Bailey (voice) | |
| Red Dead Redemption | The Local Population | ||
| Fallout: New Vegas | Doc Mitchell (voice) | ||
| 2011 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | General Tullius (voice) | |
| 2012 | Mass Effect 3 | Commander Armando-Owen Bailey (voice) | |
| TERA: Rising | Commander Samael (voice) | ||
| 2021 | Mass Effect Legendary Edition | Commander Armando-Owen Bailey (voice) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Michael Hogan". www.nndb.com.
- ^ Dahlen, Chris (January 13, 2009). Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan. The A.V. Club
- ^ "Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan Suits Up For Red Riding Hood". June 16, 2010.
- ^ Wright, Eddie (July 19, 2013), SDCC 2013: First Look At 'Husbands' Season 3 Guest Stars [EXCLUSIVE], mtv.com, archived from the original on July 26, 2013, retrieved July 21, 2013
- ^ La Rosa, Erin (July 20, 2013), 9 Things You Missed At The Comic-Con BuzzFeed Bash, buzzfeed.com, retrieved July 21, 2013
- ^ "Exclusive: 'Battlestar' Vet Michael Hogan Joins WB's 'Red Riding Hood'". Thewrap. June 15, 2010.
- ^ Miska, Brad (June 15, 2010). "'Battlestar Galactica' Vet Joins Hardwick's 'Red Riding Hood'".
- ^ "Gamespot Video: Mass Effect 2 Voice Cast Revealed".
- ^ "Gamingtrend.com review".
- ^ Rubin, Brian P. (September 27, 2011) "Skyrim Voice Cast Revealed". Inside Gaming Daily.
- ^ Nate Rios (April 10, 2012). "En Masse Announces Michael Hogan, Claudia Black to Head TERA Voice Cast". Curse.
- ^ "'Battlestar Galactica' Cast Voices Support for Co-Star Michael Hogan After 'Massive' Brain Injury". www.msn.com. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "Battlestar Galactica Star Michael Hogan's Wife Shares Holiday Update After Post-Convention Accident Left Actor Partially Paralyzed". cinemablend.com. January 11, 2022. Retrieved March 23, 2023.
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