Hogan began his career in 1978 and has starred in numerous TV shows, plays, radio dramas and operas. He started in plays at the Shaw Festival. He made his film debut in the Peter Fonda trucker picture ''
High-Ballin' (1978). He and his wife soon became a popular television couple, as the stars of the 1983 Canadian series Vanderberg
and the 1986 Canadian-German series The Little Vampire''. In 1985, he also starred in the children's film
The Peanut Butter Solution. Hogan portrayed Jack Budyansky in
Diplomatic Immunity (1990) and in
Solitaire (1991). He was nominated for a
Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for the former role and won it for the latter. In 1998, he portrayed Tony Logozzo in
Cold Squad (1998). Hogan was nominated for the
Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries, for the 2003 telefilm
Betrayed. From 2003 to 2009, Hogan starred as
Colonel Saul Tigh, Executive Officer of the Battlestar
Galactica on the
Sci Fi Channel television program
Battlestar Galactica. He portrayed Irwin Fairbanks in
The L Word (2004–2006). He also had a recurring role on the hit MTV show
Teen Wolf (2012–2017) as Gerard Argent, the werewolf-hunting grandfather of Allison Argent and the latest nemesis of main protagonist, Scott McCall. He made guest appearances on
Millennium (1997),
The Outer Limits (1997),
Andromeda (2002), in the two-hour premiere of
Monk (2002),
Dollhouse (2009),
Numb3rs (2009),
Warehouse 13 (2009),
Psych (2010),
Supernatural (2011), and the third season of the sitcom
Husbands. Hogan's movies include
Road to Saddle River,
Clearcut,
Stella, ''Cowboys Don't Cry
and The Cutting Edge
and the telefilms Dead Man's Gun
, Shadow Lake
, Scorn
, Shadow Realm
and Nights Below Station Street'', for which he received the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association's Blizzard Award for Best Leading Actor. He appeared in the
romance horror film Red Riding Hood (2011). Hogan has also lent his voice to the video game industry, providing the voice of Captain Armando-Owen Bailey in the
role-playing games (RPG)
Mass Effect 2 and
Mass Effect 3, as well as the opening character, Doc Mitchell, in
Fallout: New Vegas. Hogan also voiced the character General Tullius in the RPG,
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Most recently, he lent his voice as Samael in the American release of the Korean multiplayer role-playing game
TERA (2012). ==Personal life==