His twin brother is fellow Star Trek stuntman Bob McGovern. McGovern has also performed stunts in films such as Rocky III (1982, with Bob Minor, Tony Brubaker, Rex Pierson, Jophery C. Brown, Tom Lupo, Billy Hank Hooker, Jim Halty, and stunts by Branscombe Richmond, Mark De Alessandro, and Freddie Hice), Back to School (1986, with Sally Kellerman, Terry Farrell, Robert Picardo, Adrienne Barbeau, Michael McGrady, and stunts by Gregory J. Barnett, Todd Bryant, Gary Epper, Allan Graf, Noon Orsatti, Manny Perry, and Spike Silver), Best of the Best (1989), Die Hard 2 (1990), Demolition Man (1993, with Bob Gunton and Bill Cobbs), Mulholland Falls (1996), The Glimmer Man (1996), Con Air (1997, with Colm Meaney), and BASEketball (1998, with Ray Xifo, Stephen McHattie, Raphael Sbarge, and stunts by