Jeffrey David Fahey (born November 29, 1952) is an American film and television actor.

Biography

Career

Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance with the Joffrey Ballet at the age of 25; he performed in theaters across the country and on Broadway. He landed his first major role in television playing Gary Corelli on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. In 1985, he received his first major role in film, playing the villain Tyree in Silverado. In 1986, he played a gun dealer named Eddie Kaye in Miami Vice; his character is best known for destroying the Ferrari sports car the two lead characters drove. Also in 1986, he starred in Psycho III.

Since then, he has appeared in a handful of films, most notably playing the title role of Jobe alongside Pierce Brosnan in the cult classic The Lawnmower Man. In 1995 he took the spotlight starring as Winston McBride in ABC's The Marshal. He also appeared in a fake trailer for a film called Machete in Grindhouse: Planet Terror as Machete's employer and as a heroic barbecue cook in Planet Terror. Although it was intended to only be a fake trailer, it has been announced that Robert Rodriguez intends make a feature length film version of Machete.