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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 25, 1949
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Brain Kerwin
- Брайан Кервин
Brian Kerwin
0.7 Popularity
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Kerwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
4.2
Irv Bornstein
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
2015
7.8
Corky
The Knick
2014
5.8
Sandy
You Must Be Joking
2014
🎬
0.0
Senator Fontaine
Dangerous Liaisons
2014
7.6
Charles Cooper
Elementary
2012
6.6
Garrett Landry
The Client List
2012
8.2
Robert Phelan
The Help
2011
6.4
Hal Nichols
27 Dresses
2008
6.9
Eddie
Big Love
2006
7.2
Cop #2
The Exonerated
2006
Credits
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
as Irv Bornstein
2015
4.2
The Knick
as Corky
2014
7.8
You Must Be Joking
as Sandy
2014
5.8
🎬
Dangerous Liaisons
as Senator Fontaine
2014
0.0
Elementary
as Charles Cooper
2012
7.6
The Client List
as Garrett Landry
2012
6.6
The Help
as Robert Phelan
2011
8.2
27 Dresses
as Hal Nichols
2008
6.4
Big Love
as Eddie
2006
6.9
The Exonerated
as Cop #2
2006
7.2
Close to Home
as Lee Towers
2005
5.9
Grey's Anatomy
as Holden McKee
2005
8.2
Medium
as Nathan Bradley
2005
7.5
Desperate Housewives
as Harvey Bigsby
2004
7.9
Boston Legal
as Jack Fleming
2004
7.9
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
as Nathan Lloyd
2004
5.0
Debating Robert Lee
as Gary Mann
2004
6.3
Nip/Tuck
as Eugene Alderman
2003
7.2
Without a Trace
as Randall Parker
2002
7.2
Monk
as Ben Glazer
2002
8.0
Strong Medicine
as Leslie Campbell
2000
7.3
Common Ground
as Chuck Dawson
2000
4.7
The West Wing
as Ben Dryer
1999
8.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Evan Ramsey
1999
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Stanley Billings
1999
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Roger Murray
1999
7.9
Beggars and Choosers
as Rob Malone
1999
2.8
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
4.7
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
4.2
Giving Up the Ghost
as Kevin
1998
6.0
Mr. Jealousy
as Stephen
1998
5.8
Flash
as David Strong
1997
8.1
The Myth of Fingerprints
as Elliot
1997
5.0
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
as Buck Adams
1997
6.4
Unlikely Angel
as Ben Bartilson
1996
5.9
Dear Diary
as Tom
1996
6.5
Critical Choices
as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
1996
6.0
Jack
as Brian Powell
1996
6.3
Getting Away with Murder
as Marty Lambert
1996
4.6
Sins of Silence
as Joey Finn
1996
7.0
It Came from Outer Space II
as Jack Putnam
1995
3.1
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
as Matt Hollinger
1995
6.2
Abandoned and Deceived
as Doug
1995
6.6
Frasier
as Bob
1993
7.7
🎬
Angel Falls
as Eli Harrison
1993
8.0
Love Field
as Ray Hallett
1992
6.0
Spies, Inc.
as Jim
1992
4.3
Hard Promises
as Walt
1992
5.5
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Jack Adkins
1992
5.8
Switched at Birth
as Robert Mays
1991
0.0
Law & Order
as Ted Weldon
1990
7.4
Challenger
as Captain Michael J. Smith
1990
6.2
Tales from the Crypt
as Donald
1989
8.0
Torch Song Trilogy
as Ed Reese
1988
7.3
Roseanne
1988
6.8
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
as Hal Graham
1987
6.8
King Kong Lives
as Hank Mitchell
1986
5.1
🎬
King Kong! The Living Legend
as Self
1986
0.0
Murphy's Romance
as Bobby Jack Moriarty
1985
6.1
Wet Gold
as Ben Keating, the Diver
1984
4.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Andy Townsend
1984
7.5
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
Nickel Mountain
as George
1984
3.6
The Hitchhiker
as Doctor Winters
1983
6.1
Intimate Agony
as Nick Todd
1983
4.3
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
8.0
Miss All-American Beauty
as Michael Carrington
1982
1.5
The Blue and the Gray
as Malachy Hale
1982
6.6
St. Elsewhere
as Terence O'Casey
1982
5.6
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Power
as Jack Vanda
1980
2.0
Getting Wasted
as Brad
1980
4.7
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
as Deputy Birdwell "Birdie" Hawkins
1979
5.1
The Paradise Connection
as Bruce Douglas
1979
0.0
The Chisholms
as Gideon Chisholm
1979
6.2
B. J. and the Bear
1979
5.5
Hometown U.S.A.
as T. J. Swackhammer
1979
1.0
A Real American Hero
as Til Johnson
1978
3.0
The Love Boat
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Ted Lawrence
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Hank Austin
1977
6.3
Logan's Run
as Patrick
1977
6.7
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
6.0
Great Performances
as Hal Graham
1971
5.8
One Life to Live
as Charlie Banks
1968
7.0