Name
Brian Kerwin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1949-10-25 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. That same year he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum and played Nick in a highly praised revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow. He also played opposite Kathy Baker in the South Coast Repertory production of The Man from Nebraska in 2006. His most recent stage appearance was in the Broadway production August: Osage County.
Kerwin's feature films include Murphy's Romance, Hard Promises, 27 Dresses (as Katherine Heigl's character's father), Torch Song Trilogy, Love Field, Jack, King Kong Lives, The Myth of Fingerprints, and Debating Robert Lee. Kerwin has enjoyed an extensive career in television, beginning with the daytime serial The Young and the Restless in 1976. In addition to many television movies, his credits include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four 1979 episodes as Gideon Chisholm), Roseanne, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck and Big Love and guest appearances in The Love Boat, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Frasier, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. In 2007, he joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live. Brian was also in a television movie with Michelle Pfeiffer called Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson. He played her married lover. His name was spelled Brain Kerwin in the credits.
Kerwin has been married to Jeanne Marie Troy since September 2, 1990. They have three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. The family lives in New York City.
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- 1996 Jack as Brian Powell
- 1988 Torch Song Trilogy as Ed Reese
- 1986 King Kong Lives as Hank Mitchell
- 1996 Getting Away with Murder as Marty Lambert
- 1985 Murphy's Romance as Bobby Jack Moriarty
- 1995 Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain as Matt Hollinger
- 1992 Love Field as Ray Hallett
- 1984 Wet Gold as Ben Keating, the Diver
- 1982 Miss All-American Beauty as Michael Carrington
- 1992 Hard Promises as Walt
- 1996 Unlikely Angel as Ben Bartilson
- 1978 A Real American Hero as Til Johnson
- 1995 Abandoned and Deceived as Doug
- 1997 Flash as David Strong
- 2004 Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman as Nathan Lloyd
- 1995 It Came from Outer Space II as Jack Putnam
- 2015 Addiction: A 60's Love Story as Irv Bornstein
- 1986 King Kong! The Living Legend as Self
- 1997 Volcano: Fire on the Mountain as Buck Adams
- 1992 Spies, Inc. as Jim
- 1996 Critical Choices as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
- 1980 Getting Wasted as Brad
- 2004 Debating Robert Lee as Gary Mann
- 1987 Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson as Hal Graham
- 2000 Common Ground as Chuck Dawson
- 2014 You Must Be Joking as Sandy
- 2011 The Help as Robert Phelan
- 1996 Sins of Silence as Joey Finn
- 1990 Challenger as Captain Michael J. Smith
- 1984 Nickel Mountain as George
- 1979 Hometown U.S.A. as T. J. Swackhammer
- 1992 Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore as Jack Adkins
- 1998 Giving Up the Ghost as Kevin
- 1979 The Paradise Connection as Bruce Douglas
- 1997 The Myth of Fingerprints as Elliot
- 1996 Dear Diary as Tom
- 2006 The Exonerated as Cop #2
- 1983 Intimate Agony as Nick Todd
- 1998 Mr. Jealousy as Stephen
- 1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
- 1982 The Tragedy of King Lear
- 1982 St. Elsewhere ( 2 episodes ) as Terence O'Casey
- 2005 Medium ( 1 episode ) as Nathan Bradley
- 1968 One Life to Live ( 3742 episodes ) as Charlie Banks
- 2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 1 episode ) as Holden McKee
- 1979 B. J. and the Bear ( 1 episode )
- 2004 Desperate Housewives ( 2 episodes ) as Harvey Bigsby
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode )
- 2002 Monk ( 1 episode ) as Ben Glazer
- 1981 Simon & Simon ( 1 episode )
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Donald
- 1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode )
- 1988 Roseanne ( 4 episodes )
- 2003 Nip/Tuck ( 4 episodes ) as Eugene Alderman
- 2002 Without a Trace ( 1 episode ) as Randall Parker
- 2005 Close to Home ( 1 episode ) as Lee Towers
- 2006 Big Love ( 4 episodes ) as Eddie
- 2004 Boston Legal ( 1 episode ) as Jack Fleming
- 1976 Battle of the Network Stars ( 2 episodes )
- 1979 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo ( 37 episodes ) as Deputy Birdwell "Birdie" Hawkins
- 1983 The Hitchhiker ( 1 episode ) as Doctor Winters
- 1999 Beggars and Choosers ( 42 episodes ) as Rob Malone
- 1993 Angel Falls ( 6 episodes ) as Eli Harrison
- 1979 The Chisholms ( 4 episodes ) as Gideon Chisholm
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Evan Ramsey
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Stanley Billings
- 1977 Logan's Run ( 1 episode ) as Patrick
- 2012 Elementary ( 1 episode ) as Charles Cooper
- 1999 The West Wing ( 3 episodes ) as Ben Dryer
- 2014 The Knick ( 1 episode ) as Corky
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Roger Murray
- 1993 Frasier ( 2 episodes ) as Bob
- 2012 The Client List ( 3 episodes ) as Garrett Landry
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Ted Weldon
- 1999 The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer ( 2 episodes )
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Ted Lawrence
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 2 episodes ) as Hank Austin
- 1982 The Blue and the Gray ( 3 episodes ) as Malachy Hale
- 2000 Strong Medicine ( 2 episodes ) as Leslie Campbell
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Hal Graham
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Andy Townsend
- 1991 Switched at Birth ( 2 episodes ) as Robert Mays
- 1988 Bluegrass ( 2 episodes ) as Dancy Cutler
