Corbin Bernsen
Acting • Born 1954-09-07
Biography
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his roles as retired police detective Henry Spencer on USA Network's series Psych and it's subsequent TV movies, divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law and the TV movie, and Roger Dorn in the Major League trilogy. He also portrayed Jerry in Lay the Favorite (2012), Gil Gordon in The Big Year (2011), Harlan Dexter in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Dr. Alan Feinstone in The Dentist I & II, and Jason Chadman in Hello Again (1987). He starred as USAF Col. Henry 'Bull' Eckert on the series The Cape and Brett Sooner on the sitcom A Whole New Ballgame. He appeared recurring as Kyle Nevin on the FOX medical drama The Resident, Sinclair Dryden on Showtime's City on a Hill, Francis 'Icepick' Hofstetler on the Magnum P.I. reboot, Milt Leakey on the CBS series Tommy, Anderson Schultz on the Netflix series Marvel's The Punisher, Chief Cantuck on Sundance TV's series Hap and Leonard, Michael Longworth on A&E's police drama The Glades, Jack Sherwood on UPN's sitcom Cuts, Captain Owen Sebring on JAG, Ken Graham on Ryan's Hope, and has had intermittent appearances as John Durant on General Hospital and Father Todd Williams on The Young and the Restless. He is the eldest son of Harry Bernsen Jr., a Hollywood producer, and veteran soap actress Jeanne Cooper, who appeared on The Young and the Restless.
Filmography
263 credits
Shattered
Movie • 1991
Jeb Scott
Connective Tissue
Movie • 2019
Dr. Epstein
Midland
Movie • 2015
The Shepherd
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Movie • 2005
Harlan Dexter
Major League II
Movie • 1994
Roger Dorn
Disorganized Crime
Movie • 1989
Frank Salazar
The Great White Hype
Movie • 1996
Peter Prince
Quiet Kill
Movie • 2004
Jerry Martin
Radioland Murders
Movie • 1994
Dexter Morris
Atomic Twister
Movie • 2002
Sheriff C.B. Bishop
Dead Air
Movie • 2009
Dr. F
Tales from the Hood
Movie • 1995
Duke Metger (segment "KKK Comeuppance")
The Beldham
Movie • 2025
Major League: Back to the Minors
Movie • 1998
Roger Dorn
The Dentist
Movie • 1996
Dr. Alan Feinstone
Raptor
Movie • 2001
Dr. Hyde
Major League
Movie • 1989
Roger Dorn
S.O.B.
Movie • 1981
Unknown
Carpool Guy
Movie • 2005
Michael
Raging Sharks
Movie • 2005
Capt. Riley
Hello Again
Movie • 1987
Jason Chadman
The New Age
Movie • 1994
Kevin Bulasky
The Unseen Realm
Movie • 2019
Self (Host)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Movie • 2002
David Carver
Dead Above Ground
Movie • 2002
Mark Mallory
The Dentist 2
Movie • 1998
Dr. Feinstone / Dr. Caine
Depth Charge
Movie • 2008
Vipers
Movie • 2008
Burton
Tidal Wave: No Escape
Movie • 1997
John Wahl
The Hating Game
Movie • 2021
Bexley
Three the Hard Way
Movie • 1974
Boy
Love Comes Softly
Movie • 2003
Ben Graham
Rust
Movie • 2010
Beyond Suspicion
Movie • 1993
Stan Benderman
Weekend Warriors
Movie • 2021
Police Chief Baumgardner
Grey Knight
Movie • 1993
Col. Nehemiah Strayn
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
Movie • 2010
FBI Director Hill
Rodney Dangerfield's The Really Big Show
Movie • 1991
Self
For the Love of Grace
Movie • 2008
Captain Washington
Full Circle
Movie • 1996
Harrison Winslow
Suing The Devil
Movie • 2011
Barry Polk
The Fairy King
Movie • 1998
Rob Preston
Two of Hearts
Movie • 1999
Bruce Saunders
Pirate Camp
Movie • 2007
Hookbeard
Judgment
Movie • 2001
Mitch Kendrick
Rangers
Movie • 2000
Senator
Lay the Favorite
Movie • 2012
Jerry
Happy Endings Funeral Parlor
Movie
Marshmallow
Movie • 2025
Roy
Fangs
Movie • 2002
Carl Hart
25 Hill
Movie • 2011
Roy Gibbs
Young Hearts Unlimited
Movie • 1998
Brian
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
Movie • 2004
Steve
The Ascension
Movie • 2011
Carl
True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl
Movie • 2008
Nick Harvey
Riddler's Moon
Movie • 1999
George Brenner
Lizzie
Movie • 2013
Dr. Fredricks
Allison Sydney Harrison
Movie • 1983
Steve Malloy
The Soft Kill
Movie • 1994
Martin Lewis
Mary for Mayor
Movie • 2020
Pat
Herd
Movie • 2023
Robert Miller
Kounterfeit
Movie • 1996
Marty Hopkins
Killer Instinct
Movie • 2001
Jennings Wilhite
Menno's Mind
Movie • 1997
Felix Medina
Sex and Consequences
Movie • 2006
John Wayne
Dangerous Intentions
Movie • 1995
Tim Williamson
Submission
Movie • 2006
The Tomorrow Man
Movie • 2001
Larry
Trapped
Movie • 2009
Edward Hutton
Stolen Child
Movie • 2012
George
Spacejacked
Movie • 1997
Barnes
Frozen Assets
Movie • 1992
Zach Shepard
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Movie • 1989
Jim Shirley
Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead
Movie • 1995
Neil Jones / Roy Francis Netter
An American Affair
Movie • 1997
District Attorney Sam Brady / Senator John Crawford
Surviving Theater 9
Movie • 2018
Tom
Pizza Man
Movie • 2011
Criswell
Miss December
Movie • 2011
District Attorney
Recipe for Revenge
Movie • 1998
Dr. Chester Winnifield
Borderline Normal
Movie • 2000
Benjiman Walling
Trigger Fast
Movie • 1994
Brent Mallick
Inhumanoid
Movie • 1996
Foster Carver
Voices from Within
Movie • 1994
Mark Reichard
Temptress
Movie • 1995
Nick
Guns of Honor
Movie • 1994
Brent Mallick
The Cold Heart of a Killer
Movie • 1996
Alex Jensen
Beyond the Heavens
Movie • 2013
Gus Henry
Doubletake
Movie • 1985
Tennis Pro
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
Movie • 1987
Self
Dead Aim
Movie • 1987
Webster
Born to Race: Fast Track
Movie • 2014
Liam
Final Mission
Movie • 1994
General Morgan Breslaw
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2002
Self
Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist
Movie • 2023
Steve Plank
Savage Land
Movie • 1994
Quint
Christmas at Keestone
Movie • 2023
Clint Baker
Game Changer
Movie • 2022
Iann Gabriel
Christian Mingle
Movie • 2014
Matt
Someone to Die For
Movie • 1995
Jack Davis
Dead on the Money
Movie • 1991
Carter Matthews
A Brilliant Disguise
Movie • 1994
Dr. Martin
Baja
Movie • 1996
John Stone
The Santa Trap
Movie • 2002
Chief Spivak
3 Day Test
Movie • 2012
Tom
Portrait of Love
Movie • 2015
Tyler Mason
House of Fallen
Movie • 2008
Rowland
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Movie • 1998
Celebrity Lawyer
The Dynasty That Almost Was
Movie • 2017
The Misadventures of Margaret
Movie • 1998
Art Turner
Repeater
Movie • 2023
Edgar Mann
Distortion
Movie • 2017
Dr. Eli Sutton
Ordinary Miracles
Movie • 2005
David Woodbury
Where Are My Children?
Movie • 1994
Tom Scott
Love Can Be Murder
Movie • 1992
Nick Peyton
Sensory Perception
Movie • 2015
Mr. Friedrich
God's Club
Movie • 2016
Max Graves
Prayer Never Fails
Movie • 2016
Joseph T. Harrington
Right to Die
Movie • 2007
Ira
L.A. Law: The Movie
Movie • 2002
Arnie Becker
There There
Movie
Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance
Movie • 2016
“Pops” Chapman
I Know My Son Is Alive
Movie • 1994
Mark Elshant
Eco Teens Save The World
Movie • 2015
Senator Jeremy Ryburn
It Had to Be You
Movie • 2015
Nolan Powell
In-Lawfully Yours
Movie • 2016
Father Grayson
Tow
Movie • 2026
Martin La Rosa
They Are Among Us
Movie • 2004
Norbert
Eat My Dust
Movie • 1976
Roy Puire
Kiss of a Stranger
Movie • 1999
Mason
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Movie • 1988
Arnie Becker
Donna on Demand
Movie • 2009
Ben Corbin
Bloodhounds II
Movie • 1996
Harrison Coyle
Bloodhounds
Movie • 1996
Harrison Coyle
Loyal Opposition
Movie • 1998
Secret Service agent John Gray
Larceny
Movie • 2017
Price
Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain
Movie • 2003
Fog Benson
The Naked Ape
Movie • 2006
Mr. Feldman
King Kong
Movie • 1976
Reporter
Fatal Inheritance
Movie • 1991
Woodward Dawes
Psych: The Movie
Movie • 2017
Henry Spencer
Paid
Movie • 2006
William Montague
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
Movie • 1991
Morris Dees
Love's Complicated
Movie • 2016
Dublin Senior
My Daddy is in Heaven
Movie • 2018
Vernon
The Russian Bride
Movie • 2019
Karl Frederick
Gordon Family Tree
Movie • 2013
Ron Goodson
Reach
Movie • 2018
Charles
When We Last Spoke
Movie • 2020
Walt
Alone We Fight
Movie • 2018
Colonel Bradley Armstrong
Roe v. Wade
Movie • 2021
Justice Blackmun
It Came From Connemara!
Movie • 2014
Self
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Movie • 2020
Henry Spencer
Closets
Movie • 2010
Grant Erickson
The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger
Movie • 2010
Self
Faith, Hope & Love
Movie • 2019
Brian Fuller
Breaking Point
Movie • 1989
Pike
Cover Me
Movie • 1995
Andre Solloway
Swell
Movie • 2019
Harold
Death and Texas
Movie • 2004
Coach Loren Stanley
All Good Things
Movie • 2019
Pop-pop
Gentle Ben
Movie • 2002
Fog Benson
Bad Actress
Movie • 2011
Corbin Bernsen
Sunrise in Heaven
Movie • 2019
Jim
First Lady
Movie • 2020
King Max
Final Payback
Movie • 2001
Mayor Richardson
Grass Roots
Movie • 1992
Will Lee
Life with Dog
Movie • 2018
Joe Bigler
The Big Year
Movie • 2011
Gil Gordon
A Deadly Legend
Movie • 2020
Matthias Leary
The Elvis Room
Movie • 2016
Harker
Cadia: The World Within
Movie • 2020
George
The Farmer and the Belle: Saving Santaland
Movie • 2020
Gran'Poppy
A Bennett Song Holiday
Movie • 2020
Aiden Neville
The Christmas Project Reunion
Movie • 2020
Grandpa George
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Movie • 1995
Flight Engineer Murphy
Boone: The Bounty Hunter
Movie • 2017
Cage Bickle
The Commission
Movie • 2003
Rep. Gerald R. Ford
Dead Man Rising
Movie • 2017
Buck
Clambake
Movie • 1967
Boy at Playground (uncredited)
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
Movie • 1995
Frank Cole
L.A. Law: Pilot
Movie • 1986
Arnold Becker
Psych 3: This Is Gus
Movie • 2021
Henry Spencer
Murderous Intent
Movie • 1995
Brice
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie • 1994
Arnie
The Last Straw
Movie • 2014
Mr. G
Past Shadows
Movie • 2021
Lewis Samuels
Taking the Reins
Movie • 2021
Preston
Memory Box
Movie • 2024
Father (voice)
The Yeti
Movie • 2026
Merriell Sunday Sr.
Kali
Movie
Old Man
Laura Louise
Movie
Edward Brannock
Web of Life
Movie • 2025
Keith
In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999
Movie • 2025
Self
Woodstockers
Movie • 2026
Lenny
Cuts
TV • 2005
Jack Sherwood
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Arnie Becker
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Carter Savage
Son of the Beach
TV • 2000
Castle
TV • 2009
Lance Hastings
Psych
TV • 2006
Henry Spencer
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Q2
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Glen Mitchell
V.I.P.
TV • 1998
Zack Henley
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Masters of Horror
TV • 2005
Ira
Hi-Jinks
TV • 2005
Twins
TV • 2005
JAG
TV • 1995
Captain Owen Sebring
Baywatch
TV • 1989
The Cape
TV • 1996
USAF Col. Henry 'Bull' Eckert
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Attorney Eli Granger
Love & War
TV • 1992
A Whole New Ballgame
TV • 1995
Brett Sooner
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Corbin Bernsen
NCIS: New Orleans
TV • 2014
Adam Huntley
White House Plumbers
TV • 2023
Richard Kleindienst
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Henry Shallick
Motive
TV • 2013
Dr. Stan Matthews
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Corbin Bernsen
Switched at Birth
TV • 2011
Just Shoot Me!
TV • 1997
Corbin Bernsen
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Virgil Nygard
Powerless
TV • 2017
Vanderveer Wayne Sr.
Twice in a Lifetime
TV • 1999
Roger Stovall / Bill Water
Scorpion
TV • 2014
Bob Connelly
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Self
The Curse
TV • 2023
Paul
Roc
TV • 1991
Jim Larson
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Jerry Grandin
Celebrity Family Feud
TV • 2008
Self
City on a Hill
TV • 2019
Sinclair Dryden
The League
TV • 2009
Bruce
Magnum P.I.
TV • 2018
Francis 'Icepick' Hofstetler
Marvel's The Punisher
TV • 2017
Anderson Schultz
Clipped
TV • 2024
Pierce O'Donnell
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Dear John
TV • 1988
Blake McCarron
The Resident
TV • 2018
Kyle Nevin
The Kominsky Method
TV • 2018
Himself
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
William Hendry
Grace and Frankie
TV • 2015
Dr. Paul Mason
Tommy
TV • 2020
Milt Leakey
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Ted Grant
Fresh Off the Boat
TV • 2015
Mervin
The New Adventures of Old Christine
TV • 2006
Howard
American Gods
TV • 2017
Vulcan
Ring of the Musketeers
TV • 1992
Harry
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Eric Weiss
Battery Park
TV • 2000
Michael
Miss Match
TV • 2003
Stu 'Dr. Love' Scott
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Anger Management
TV • 2012
Roger
East New York
TV • 2022
Duke Jacobs
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Audience Member
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Henry Upton
Your Friends & Neighbors
TV • 2025
Jack Bailey
Duster
TV • 2025
Wade Ellis
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Casey
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Edward Jansen
Matlock
TV • 1986
Corbin Bernsen
Flying High
TV • 1978
Dan Ellison
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
TV • 2026
Duck Donovan