Jeff Kober (born 18 December 1953; age 71) is the actor who played Iko in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Repentance" and Traeg in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Shadows of P'Jem".
He is best known for his role as Sergeant Evan "Dodger" Winslow on China Beach, in which he co-starred with future Voyager star Robert Picardo and fellow Voyager guest stars Concetta Tomei and Megan Gallagher from 1988 through 1991.
The year before China Beach debuted, Kober had a supporting role in the made-for-television movie Laguna Heat. Co-starring in this film were Catherine Hicks and Peter Brocco. In 1988, besides starring in China Beach, Kober had major roles in Viper, Lucky Stiff (1988, co-starring W. Morgan Sheppard, Leigh J. McCloskey, Bill Quinn, and Larry Cedar), and Alien Nation (1988, featuring Brian Thompson, Frank Collison, Tom Morga, Leslie Bevis, Roger Aaron Brown, Earl Boen and Keone Young).
Kober has had steady work on television since China Beach came to an end, having made several guest appearances on series such as The X-Files (1993, starring Gillian Anderson, with Sonny Surowiec), Walker, Texas Ranger and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with Dominic Keating and Harris Yulin), and starring in the short-lived TV series Higher Education and Kindred: The Embraced. He has also appeared in several films, including Tank Girl (1995, starring Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell, with Reg E. Cathey, Ann Magnuson, Ann Cusack, Doug Jones, James Hong, Charles Lucia and Iggy Pop), Enough (2002, starring Billy Campbell, with Bill Cobbs, Bruce French, and Sandra Nelson), and A Man Apart (2003, starring Timothy Olyphant, with Thomas Kopache, Marco Rodriguez, Jim Boeke, Geno Silva, Ben Bray, Michael Papajohn, Dean Rubin, Azalea Davila and Charlie Curtis). He also made an appearance in Hidalgo (2004, featuring Malcolm McDowell). Kober later appeared in the multi-award winning 2006 independent short film Lucid and was seen in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007, co-starring Michael Bailey Smith).
He also had a small but important guest role on 24 playing the assassin who kills former President David Palmer. His "Shadows of P'Jem" co-star Gregory Itzin was a regular on that show at the time, as were Jude Ciccolella and Roger Cross. Kober later appeared in Supernatural as the inmate Randall. Kober was next seen in Multiple, in 2007.
External links[]
- Jeff Kober at Wikipedia
- Jeff Kober at the Internet Movie Database