Jeff Fahey Biography

Jeffrey David "Jeff" Fahey (born November 29, 1952) is an American film and television actor. He has portrayed Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost and the title role of Deputy Marshal Winston MacBride on The Marshal.

Early life

Fahey was born in Olean, New York, the sixth of 13 siblings in an Irish American family. His mother, Jane, was a homemaker, and his father, Frank Fahey, worked at a clothing store. Fahey was raised in Buffalo, New York, from the age of ten and attended Father Baker's High School there. Fahey left home at the age of 17, subsequently hitchhiking to Alaska. He later backpacked through Europe, and worked on an Israeli kibbutz.

Career

Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25. He performed in theaters across the United States and on Broadway. He landed his first major role in television playing Gary Corelli on the soap opera One Life to Live.

In 1985 he received his first major role in film, playing "Tyree" in Silverado. In 1986 he starred in Psycho III as Duane Duke, a money desperate guitarist. That same year, Fahey guest starred on the Season 3 premiere of Miami Vice as gun dealer "Eddie Kaye", famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona.

He played "Thorold Stone" in the film Revelation. Fahey later starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in The Lawnmower Man.

In 1990 he starred alongside Marisa Tomei in Parker Kane and Clint Eastwood in the Eastwood directed White Hunter, Black Heart. In 1995 he starred as "Winston McBride" on ABC's The Marshal. He appeared in the Robert Rodriguez film Planet Terror. In 2007 he starred in Messages with Bruce Payne.

Fahey appeared as daredevil "Dutch the Clutch" in an episode of Psych in the beginning of the third season of the show.

Fahey played recurring character, Frank Lapidus, the airplane and helicopter pilot of the research team sent to the island in the fourth, fifth, and as a regular character for the sixth season of Lost.

In 2010 he had a major role in the Robert Rodriguez action film Machete.

Humanitarian efforts

In 2006 and 2007 Fahey spent time in Afghanistan assisting the newly established American University of Afghanistan, and launching a project to assist orphans in Kabul.

Fahey's recent humanitarian work has revolved around the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, in which he has been focusing on the subject of warehousing, a practice in which the rights and mobility of refugees is restricted by a host country. Fahey's work specifically has addressed the subject of warehoused Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.

Filmography

• One Life to Live (1982"1985, TV)
• Silverado (1985)
• The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985)
• The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1986, TV)
• Psycho III (1986)
• Miami Vice (1986, TV)
• Riot on 42nd St. (1987)
• Backfire (1988)
• Split Decisions (1988)
• The Serpent of Death (1989)
• True Blood (1989)
• Minnamurra (aka Wrangler) (1989)
• The Last of the Finest (1990)
• Impulse (1990)
• White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
• Curiosity Kills (1990)
• Parker Kane (1990)
• Iron Maze (1991)
• Body Parts (1991)
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Sketch Artist (1992)
• Woman of Desire (1993)
• In the Company of Darkness (1993)
• The Hit List (1993)
• Blindsided (1993)
• Quick (1993)
• Freefall (1994)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• Temptation (1994)
• Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
• Virtual Seduction (1995)
• Serpent's Lair (1995)
• The Marshal (1995, TV)
• Time Under Fire (1996)
• The Sweeper (1996)
• Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
• Every Woman's Dream (1996)
• Small Time (1996)
• Lethal Tender (1997)
• Catherine's Grove (1997)
• Perversions of Science (1997, TV)
• Operation Delta Force (aka Great Soldiers) (1997)
• The Underground (1997)
• On the Line (1998)
• Extramarital (1998)
• Johnny 2.0 (1998)
• Detour (1998)
• Apocalypse II: Revelation (aka Revelation: The Book Has Been Opened) (1999)
• Dazzle (1999)
• No Tomorrow (1999)
• The Seventh Scroll (1999)
• Time Served (1999)
• The Last Siege: Never Surrender (aka Hijack) (1999)
• When Justice Fails (1999)
• The Newcomers (2000)
• Spin Cycle (2000)
• Epicenter (2000)
• The Sculptress (2000)
• Choosing Matthias (2001)
• Outlaw (2001)
• Out There (2001)
• Cold Heart (2001)
• Nash Bridges (2001, TV)
• Maniacts (2001)
• The Contract (2002)
• Inferno (aka California Firestorm) (2002)
• Blind Heat (2002)
• Unspeakable (2002)
• Fallen Angels (2002)
• Day of Redemption (2004)
• Killing Cupid (aka Warrior or Assassin) (2004)
• Crossing Jordan (2004, TV)
• No Witness (2004)
• Close Call (2004)
• Darkhunters (2004)
• Ghost Rock (2004)
• Corpses (2004)
• American Dreams (2004, TV)
• Blue Demon (2004)
• Absolute Zero (2005)
• Icon (2005)
• Crimson Force (2005)
• Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
• Manticore (2005)
• The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)
• Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
• The Eden Formula (2006)
• Only the Brave (2006)
• Diablita (2007)
• Planet Terror (2007)
• Messages (2007)
• Psych (2008) (TV)
• The Cleaner (2008, TV)
• Matchmaker Mary (2008)
• Criminal Minds (2008, TV)
• Lost (2008"2010, TV)
• Cold Case (2009, TV)
• CSI: Miami (2009, TV)
• Easy Rider: The Ride Back (2009)
• Bed and Breakfast (2010)
• Machete (2010)
• Terror Trap (2010)
• Law & Order: LA (2011, TV)
• Chuck (2011, TV)
• Marriage Retreat (2011)
• Workaholics (2011, TV)
• Eldorado (2012)
• Common Law (2012, TV; season 1, episode 10)
• Alien Tornado (2012, TV)
• Sushi Girl (2012)
• Revolution (2012, TV)
• Hawaii Five-0 (2013, TV; season 3, episode 12: "Kapu")
• Under the Dome (2013, TV)