Brian Kerwin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 25, 1949 (age 77)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Kerwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Movie · as Irv Bornstein
You Must Be Joking
Movie · as Sandy
The Knick
TV · as Corky · 1 ep
Elementary
TV · as Charles Cooper · 1 ep
The Client List
TV · as Garrett Landry · 3 eps
The Help
Movie · as Robert Phelan
27 Dresses
Movie · as Hal Nichols
The Exonerated
Movie · as Cop #2
Big Love
TV · as Eddie · 4 eps
Medium
TV · as Nathan Bradley · 1 ep
Grey's Anatomy
TV · as Holden McKee · 1 ep
Close to Home
TV · as Lee Towers · 1 ep
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Movie · as Nathan Lloyd
Debating Robert Lee
Movie · as Gary Mann
Desperate Housewives
TV · as Harvey Bigsby · 2 eps
Boston Legal
TV · as Jack Fleming · 1 ep
Nip/Tuck
TV · as Eugene Alderman · 4 eps
Monk
TV · as Ben Glazer · 1 ep
Without a Trace
TV · as Randall Parker · 1 ep
Common Ground
Movie · as Chuck Dawson
Strong Medicine
TV · as Leslie Campbell · 2 eps
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Movie
Beggars and Choosers
TV · as Rob Malone · 42 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Evan Ramsey, Stanley Billings, Roger Murray · 1 ep
The West Wing
TV · as Ben Dryer · 3 eps
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
TV · 2 eps
Giving Up the Ghost
Movie · as Kevin
Mr. Jealousy
Movie · as Stephen
Flash
Movie · as David Strong
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Movie · as Buck Adams
The Myth of Fingerprints
Movie · as Elliot
Jack
Movie · as Brian Powell
Getting Away with Murder
Movie · as Marty Lambert
Unlikely Angel
Movie · as Ben Bartilson
Critical Choices
Movie · as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
Sins of Silence
Movie · as Joey Finn
Dear Diary
Movie · as Tom
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Movie · as Matt Hollinger
Abandoned and Deceived
Movie · as Doug
It Came from Outer Space II
Movie · as Jack Putnam
Angel Falls
TV · as Eli Harrison · 6 eps
Frasier
TV · as Bob · 2 eps
Love Field
Movie · as Ray Hallett
Hard Promises
Movie · as Walt
Spies, Inc.
Movie · as Jim
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie · as Jack Adkins
Switched at Birth
TV · as Robert Mays · 2 eps
Challenger
Movie · as Captain Michael J. Smith
Law & Order
TV · as Ted Weldon · 1 ep
Tales from the Crypt
TV · as Donald · 1 ep
Torch Song Trilogy
Movie · as Ed Reese
Roseanne
TV · 4 eps
Bluegrass
TV · as Dancy Cutler · 2 eps
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Movie · as Hal Graham
King Kong Lives
Movie · as Hank Mitchell
King Kong! The Living Legend
Movie · as Self
Murphy's Romance
Movie · as Bobby Jack Moriarty
Wet Gold
Movie · as Ben Keating, the Diver
Nickel Mountain
Movie · as George
Highway to Heaven
TV · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Andy Townsend · 1 ep
Intimate Agony
Movie · as Nick Todd
The Hitchhiker
TV · as Doctor Winters · 1 ep
Miss All-American Beauty
Movie · as Michael Carrington
The Tragedy of King Lear
Movie
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Terence O'Casey · 2 eps
The Blue and the Gray
TV · as Malachy Hale · 3 eps
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
Getting Wasted
Movie · as Brad
Hometown U.S.A.
Movie · as T. J. Swackhammer
The Paradise Connection
Movie · as Bruce Douglas
B. J. and the Bear
TV · 1 ep
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
TV · as Birdie Hawkins · 37 eps
The Chisholms
TV · as Gideon Chisholm · 4 eps
A Real American Hero
Movie · as Til Johnson
The Love Boat
TV · as Ted Lawrence, Hank Austin · 1 ep
Logan's Run
TV · as Patrick · 1 ep
Battle of the Network Stars
TV · as Self - NBC Team · 2 eps
Great Performances
TV · as Hal Graham · 1 ep
One Life to Live
TV · as Charlie Banks · 3742 eps