Brian Kerwin
Acting • Born 1949-10-25
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.
Filmography
85 credits
27 Dresses
Movie • 2008
Hal Nichols
Jack
Movie • 1996
Brian Powell
King Kong Lives
Movie • 1986
Hank Mitchell
Torch Song Trilogy
Movie • 1988
Ed Reese
Getting Away with Murder
Movie • 1996
Marty Lambert
Murphy's Romance
Movie • 1985
Bobby Jack Moriarty
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Movie • 1995
Matt Hollinger
Love Field
Movie • 1992
Ray Hallett
Wet Gold
Movie • 1984
Ben Keating, the Diver
Miss All-American Beauty
Movie • 1982
Michael Carrington
Hard Promises
Movie • 1992
Walt
Unlikely Angel
Movie • 1996
Ben Bartilson
A Real American Hero
Movie • 1978
Til Johnson
Abandoned and Deceived
Movie • 1995
Doug
Flash
Movie • 1997
David Strong
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Movie • 2004
Nathan Lloyd
It Came from Outer Space II
Movie • 1995
Jack Putnam
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Movie • 2015
Irv Bornstein
King Kong! The Living Legend
Movie • 1986
Self
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Movie • 1997
Buck Adams
Spies, Inc.
Movie • 1992
Jim
Critical Choices
Movie • 1996
Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
Getting Wasted
Movie • 1980
Brad
Debating Robert Lee
Movie • 2004
Gary Mann
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Movie • 1987
Hal Graham
Common Ground
Movie • 2000
Chuck Dawson
You Must Be Joking
Movie • 2014
Sandy
The Help
Movie • 2011
Robert Phelan
Sins of Silence
Movie • 1996
Joey Finn
Challenger
Movie • 1990
Captain Michael J. Smith
Nickel Mountain
Movie • 1984
George
Hometown U.S.A.
Movie • 1979
T. J. Swackhammer
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie • 1992
Jack Adkins
Giving Up the Ghost
Movie • 1998
Kevin
The Paradise Connection
Movie • 1979
Bruce Douglas
The Myth of Fingerprints
Movie • 1997
Elliot
Dear Diary
Movie • 1996
Tom
The Exonerated
Movie • 2006
Cop #2
Intimate Agony
Movie • 1983
Nick Todd
Mr. Jealousy
Movie • 1998
Stephen
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Movie • 1999
The Tragedy of King Lear
Movie • 1982
Dangerous Liaisons
Movie • 2014
Senator Fontaine
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Terence O'Casey
Medium
TV • 2005
Nathan Bradley
One Life to Live
TV • 1968
Charlie Banks
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Holden McKee
B. J. and the Bear
TV • 1979
Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Harvey Bigsby
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Monk
TV • 2002
Ben Glazer
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Donald
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Roseanne
TV • 1988
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Eugene Alderman
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Randall Parker
Close to Home
TV • 2005
Lee Towers
Big Love
TV • 2006
Eddie
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Jack Fleming
Battle of the Network Stars
TV • 1976
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
TV • 1979
Deputy Birdwell "Birdie" Hawkins
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Doctor Winters
Beggars and Choosers
TV • 1999
Rob Malone
Angel Falls
TV • 1993
Eli Harrison
The Chisholms
TV • 1979
Gideon Chisholm
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Evan Ramsey
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Stanley Billings
Logan's Run
TV • 1977
Patrick
Elementary
TV • 2012
Charles Cooper
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Ben Dryer
The Knick
TV • 2014
Corky
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Roger Murray
Frasier
TV • 1993
Bob
The Client List
TV • 2012
Garrett Landry
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Ted Weldon
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
TV • 1999
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Ted Lawrence
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Hank Austin
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Malachy Hale
Strong Medicine
TV • 2000
Leslie Campbell
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Hal Graham
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Andy Townsend
Switched at Birth
TV • 1991
Robert Mays
Bluegrass
TV • 1988
Dancy Cutler