Brian Kerwin
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1949-10-25 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Brian Kerwin
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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Acting
(2015)
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
as Irv Bornstein
(2014)
You Must Be Joking
as Sandy
(2014)
Dangerous Liaisons
as Senator Fontaine
(2011)
The Help
as Robert Phelan
(2008)
27 Dresses
as Hal Nichols
(2006)
The Exonerated
as Cop #2
(2004)
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
as Nathan Lloyd
(2004)
Debating Robert Lee
as Gary Mann
(2000)
Common Ground
as Chuck Dawson
(1999)
(1998)
Giving Up the Ghost
as Kevin
(1998)
Mr. Jealousy
as Stephen
(1997)
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
as Buck Adams
(1997)
The Myth of Fingerprints
as Elliot
(1997)
Flash
as David Strong
(1996)
Jack
as Brian Powell
(1996)
Critical Choices
as Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
(1996)
Unlikely Angel
as Ben Bartilson
(1996)
Getting Away with Murder
as Marty Lambert
(1996)
Sins of Silence
as Joey Finn
(1996)
Dear Diary
as Tom
(1995)
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
as Matt Hollinger
(1995)
Abandoned and Deceived
as Doug
(1995)
It Came from Outer Space II
as Jack Putnam
(1992)
Love Field
as Ray Hallett
(1992)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Jack Adkins
(1992)
Spies, Inc.
as Jim
(1992)
Hard Promises
as Walt
(1991)
Switched at Birth
as Robert Mays
(1990)
Challenger
as Captain Michael J. Smith
(1988)
Torch Song Trilogy
as Ed Reese
(1987)
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
as Hal Graham
(1986)
King Kong Lives
as Hank Mitchell
(1986)
King Kong! The Living Legend
as Self
(1985)
Murphy's Romance
as Bobby Jack Moriarty
(1984)
Wet Gold
as Ben Keating, the Diver
(1984)
Nickel Mountain
as George
(1983)
Intimate Agony
as Nick Todd
(1982)
Miss All-American Beauty
as Michael Carrington
(1982)
(1980)
Power
as Jack Vanda
(1980)
Getting Wasted
as Brad
(1979)
Hometown U.S.A.
as T. J. Swackhammer
(1979)
The Paradise Connection
as Bruce Douglas
(1978)
A Real American Hero
as Til Johnson