Kyle Ivan Secor (b. May 31, 1957 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American actor. In his teens he planned to become a professional basketball player, but was held back by extreme nearsightedness. Reconsidering his career options, he fell into acting.
In 1987-88, Secor had an eight episode guest arc on the acclaimed medical series St. Elsewhere as a sardonic AIDS patient. A few years later the former executive producer of SE, Tom Fontana, would offer Secor his Star-Making Role as Detective Tim Bayliss on Homicide: Life on the Street. Vulnerable and volatile, Bayliss played the foil to Andre Braugher's guarded and cerebral moral absolutist Frank Pembleton, also the show's breakout character.
Since Homicide ended Secor has continued to work steadily, and had a prominent recurring character on the cult teen mystery series Veronica Mars.
Works featuring Kyle Secor:
Film
- Heart Of Dixie: Charles Payton "Tuck" Tucker (1989)
- Sleeping with the Enemy: Fleishman (1991)
- Delusion: Chevy (1991)
- City Slickers: Jeff (1991)
- Untamed Heart: Howard (1993)
- Drop Zone: Swoop (1994)
- Beat: Dave Kammerer (2000)
- Endsville: Caleb Solar (2000)
- The Purge: Election Year: Minister Edwidge Owens (2016)
Television
- Santa Barbara: Brian Bradford (1986-87)
- St. Elsewhere: Brett Johnston (1987-88)
- Inherit the Wind: Bertram Cates (1988 TV movie)
- Tales from the Crypt: Devlin Cates (1990)
- In The Line of Duty: Siege at Marion: Adam Swapp (1992)
- Eerie, Indiana: Todd Ski (1992)
- Middle Ages Brian Conover (1992)
- Homicide: Life on the Street: Det. Tim Bayliss (1993-99)
- Also played the role on a 1996 crossover episode of Law & Order and the 2000 TV movie Homicide: The Movie.
- NYPD Blue: Dr. Danny Schrager (1994)
- Party of Five: Evan Stilman (1999)
- City Of Angels: Dr. Raleigh Stewart (2000)
- The Wonderful World of Disney: Lowell Lennox (2001)
- Crossing Jordan: Detective Collins (2001)
- Philly: Daniel X. Cavanaugh (2001-02)
- Without a Trace: Duncan Miller (2002)
- A Wrinkle in Time: The Man with the Red Eyes (2003 TV movie)
- CSI: Dr. Vincent Lurie (2004)
- Veronica Mars: Jake Kane (2004-19)
- Commander in Chief: Rod Calloway (2005-06)
- Hidden Palms: Alan "Skip" Matthews (2007)
- Women's Murder Club: Hanson North (2007)
- Boston Legal: Dr. Robert Brooks (2008)
- Ghost Whisperer: Doug Bancroft (2009)
- Dark Blue: FBI Agent Hollis (2009)
- White Collar: Dr. Wayne Powell (2010)
- The Deep End: Tom Lynch (2010)
- The Closer: Mark Wheeler (2010)
- The Gates: Thomas Bates (2010)
- Hawaii Five-0: Ambassador Michael Reeves (2010)
- Criminal Minds: Don Sanderson (2010)
- Private Practice: Adam Wilder (2010-11)
- The Mentalist: Father Peter DiBuono (2013)
- Castle: Anthony Freedman (2013)
- American Horror Story
- American Horror Story: Coven: Bill (2014)
- Scandal Dale (2014)
- Resurrection: Brian Addison (2014)
- Backstrom: Senator Tobias Percival II (2015)
- Aquarius: Leo Nankin (2015)
- Agent X: Stephen Maccabee (2015)
- Notorious: Dr. Govner (2016)
- Confess: Callahan Gentry (2017)
- The Flash (2014): Thomas "Icicle" Snow (2018-19)
- Grey's Anatomy: John Dickinson (2019)
- 9-1-1: Lone Star: Deputy Fire Chief Alden Radford (2020)
Tropes relating to Kyle Secor:
- One Head Taller: Remember the basketball thing. At a little over 6′ 4″ he's generally the tallest in any cast he's part of.
