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Jeff Fahey
Fahey in 2004
Born	Jeffrey David Fahey (1952-11-29) November 29, 1952 (age 59) Olean, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present

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[link]

Fahey was born in Olean, New York, the sixth of thirteen siblings in an Irish American family.^[1] His mother, Jane, was a homemaker, and his father, Frank Fahey, worked at a clothing store.^[2] 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.^[3]

Career[link]

Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25.^[4] 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 a fake trailer for a film called Machete in Grindhouse, which Robert Rodriguez made as a feature length film, although it was initially only created as a fake trailer.^[5] He also appeared in the 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.^[6] His character has been praised by critics and fans for his one liners and likability factor, but he remains one of the few members of the main cast not to have been given attention in terms of character development. In 2010, he had a major role in the Robert Rodriguez action film, Machete.

Humanitarian efforts[link]

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.^[4]

Fahey's recent humanitarian work has revolved around the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, where 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. Mr. Fahey's work has specifically addressed the subject of warehoused Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.^[7]

Filmography[link]

• 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)

References[link]

External links[link]

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