1. Tige Andrews is best remembered for his law-enforcement roles as Captain Adam Greer and Lieutenant Johnny Russo in two ABC crime drama television series: The Mod Squad, and The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, respectively.
18 Facts About Tige Andrews
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Tige Andrews's parents, following Syrian custom, named him after a strong animal to ensure good health.
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Tige Andrews's mother died when he was three years old, and his father later remarried.
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Andrews moved with his family to Middlesex, New Jersey, where Andrews graduated from Bound Brook High School.
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Tige Andrews's father was in the fruit business, and Andrews worked for his father.
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Tige Andrews attended classes for a time at the University of Beirut medical school.
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Tige Andrews was medically discharged in 1944 for injuries sustained when his ship sank in the Mediterranean.
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Tige Andrews graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1946.
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Tige Andrews then appeared in the original 1948 cast of Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan's war comedy Mister Roberts, in which he played the roles of Schlemmer and Insigna.
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Tige Andrews changed his stage name from "Tiger" to "Tige" in 1954.
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Back in New York in 1955, Tige Andrews won critical acclaim as The Streetsinger in the long-running revival of Marc Blitzstein's translation of the Brecht-Weill musical, The Threepenny Opera, off-Broadway.
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Tige Andrews reprised the role in San Francisco and Los Angeles and went on to direct The Threepenny Opera in Arizona.
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Tige Andrews's best known roles were Lieutenant Johnny Russo on The Detectives and as Captain Adam Greer on The Mod Squad.
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Tige Andrews reunited with his fellow Mod Squad cast members for a 1979 made-for-television film, The Return Of Mod Squad; it was their last appearance together.
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Tige Andrews retired from acting in the early 1990s after having appeared in more than one hundred acting roles onstage, on film and on television.
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Tige Andrews collaborated with Sandy Matlowsky and Sid Kuller on two original songs on his Tiger Records label in Los Angeles, California.
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Tige Andrews was previously married to Josephine Phillips, whom he wed in 1944 after his medical discharge from the Army.
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Tige Andrews died of cardiac arrest at his home in Encino, California, on January 27,2007, aged 86.