American actor
Jeffrey Brian Yagher (born January 18, 1961) is an American actor.
Personal life
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he graduated from Ohio State University and then attended the Yale School of Drama, where he appeared in productions of The Vultures, We Can't Pay, We Won't Play, and Las Madres. His younger brother Kevin Yagher is a special effects technician.[1] Yagher's second marriage is to actress Megan Gallagher, and they have two children together.[2]
Career
His television debut was in V: The Series as Kyle Bates. He starred in the pilot of 21 Jump Street as Tommy Hanson. He played both lead roles in The Twilight Zone episode "The Once And Future King", portraying both an Elvis impersonator and the real Elvis Presley, with a split screen used to allow him to appear alongside himself. He appeared in an episode of Newhart as Stoney and in the Seinfeld episode "The Rye" as John Jermaine, a jazz musician who dates Elaine Benes. He starred in the TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman along with Sandra Bullock in 1989. He appeared in several episodes of Six Feet Under, playing Hoyt Woodworth, in 2004. He appeared in Without a Trace (2007) and Bones (2009).
His film credits include Dead Man's Folly (1986), Big Bad Mama II (1987), Shag (1989), My Fellow Americans (1996), The Pandora Project (1998), and View from the Top (2003).
Filmography
Film
Television
Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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1984–1985
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V
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Kyle Bates
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Main role, 19 episodes
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1985
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Magnum, P.I.
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Lieutenant Andy Hawkes, USN
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Episode: "Blood and Honor"
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1986
|
Dead Man's Folly
|
Eddie South
|
Television movie
|
The Twilight Zone
|
Gary Pitkin / Elvis Presley
|
Episode: "The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness"
|
The New Gidget
|
Jerry
|
Episode: "Jeff's Anniversary"
|
Hotel
|
Tom
|
Episode: "Forsaking All Others"
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1987
|
Murder, She Wrote
|
Deputy Wayne Beeler
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Episode: "The Cemetery Vote"
|
1988
|
The Powers of Matthew Star
|
Brad
|
Episode: "The Road Rebels"
|
September Gun
|
Brian Brian
|
Television movie
|
The Jeffersons
|
Frank
|
Episode: "I Do, I Don't"
|
Newhart
|
Stoney
|
Episode: "Goonstruck"
|
1989
|
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
|
Jim Goldman
|
Television movie
|
Freddy's Nightmares
|
Rick Rake
|
Episode: "Silence is Golden"
|
1990
|
Tales from the Crypt
|
Enoch, The Two-Faced Man
|
Episode: "Lower Berth"
|
Shangri-La Plaza
|
George Bondo
|
Episode: "Pilot"
|
Murder, She Wrote
|
Scott Fielding
|
Episode: "The Big Show of 1965"
|
1991
|
Pros and Cons
|
Jackson
|
Episode: "Once a Kid"
|
1992
|
Civil Wars
|
John Beaver
|
Episode: "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense"
|
Jake and the Fatman
|
Peter Dymitrow
|
Episode: "Ain't Misbehavin"
|
Bodies of Evidence
|
Jack Houghton
|
Episode: "Nightmoves"
|
1992–1993
|
Room for Two
|
Keith Wyman
|
Main role, 26 episodes
|
1993
|
Doogie Howser, M.D.
|
Nathan Gage
|
Episode: "You've Come a Long Way, Babysitter"
|
Murder, She Wrote
|
Marcus Rule
|
Episode: "Killer Radio"
|
Mother of the Bride
|
Ken
|
Television movie
|
1994
|
One of Her Own
|
Heller
|
Television movie
|
Madonna: Innocence Lost
|
Paul
|
Television movie
|
1995
|
Columbo
|
Teddy McVeigh
|
Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
|
Live Shot
|
Alex Rydell
|
Main role, 13 episodes
|
1996
|
Seinfeld
|
John
|
Episode: "The Rye"
|
A Kidnapping in the Family
|
Jack Taylor
|
Television movie
|
1998
|
House Rules
|
Patrick
|
Episode: Pilot
|
A Wing and a Prayer
|
Jack Lowe
|
Television movie
|
The Net
|
Tim Daniels
|
Episode: "North by Northwestern"
|
Millennium
|
Mark Bianco
|
Episode: "...Thirteen Years Later"
|
1999
|
The Practice
|
Reporter Michael Sawyer
|
Episode: "Lawyers, Reporters and Cockroaches"
|
Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane
|
Kent
|
Episode: "Under Mom's Thumb"
|
Action
|
Marty
|
Episode: "Mr. Dragon Goes to Washington"
|
Oh Baby
|
Noah
|
Episode: "Friendship"
|
2000
|
It's Like, You Know...
|
Frank Wills
|
Episode: "Heat"
|
Profiler
|
Jason Bendross
|
Episode: "Besieged"
|
Family Law
|
N/A
|
Episode: "Metamorphosis"
|
7th Heaven
|
Prof. Gene Hatch
|
Episode: "Losers"
|
Star Trek: Voyager
|
Iden
|
Episode: "Flesh and Blood" (2-part episode)
|
2001
|
Mysterious Ways
|
Cal Montgomery
|
Episode: "Strike Two"
|
Walker, Texas Ranger
|
Hawkins
|
Episode: "Medieval Crimes"
|
Touched by an Angel
|
Mike Rice
|
Episode: "Netherlands"
|
2002
|
Crossing Jordan
|
Ross Larken
|
Episode: "As if by Fate"
|
2003
|
Reba
|
Terry Holliway
|
Episode: "Terry Holliway"
|
2004
|
Angel
|
Fell Leader
|
Episode: "Time Bomb"
|
2004–2005
|
Six Feet Under
|
Hoyt
|
Recurring role, 6 episodes
|
2005
|
Alias
|
Greyson Wells
|
Episode: "The Descent"
|
2007
|
Day Break
|
N/A
|
Episode: "What If He's Not Alone?"
|
The Game
|
Mike
|
Episode: "The Big Chill?"
|
Without a Trace
|
Gary Sedgwick
|
Episode: "The Beginning"
|
2009
|
Bones
|
Sean Mortenson
|
Episode: "The Critic in the Cabernet"
|
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
|
Brett McDowell
|
Episode: "The Lost Girls"
|
2011
|
Body of Proof
|
Dr. Adam Farber
|
Episode: "Your Number's Up"
|
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