Brian Kerwin
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.123 |
Birthday | 1949-10-25 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Brain Kerwin, Брайан Кервин, |
2008
27 Dresses
6.411/3067
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
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27 Dresses
1996
Jack
6.295/1235
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...
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Jack
1986
King Kong Lives
5.086/215
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g...
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King Kong Lives
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
7.3/90
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
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Torch Song Trilogy
1996
Getting Away with Murder
4.8/18
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it...
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Getting Away with Murder
1985
Murphy's Romance
6/64
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but...
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Murphy's Romance
1995
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
6.259/143
Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage o...
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1992
Love Field
5.9/67
Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours...
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Love Field
1984
Wet Gold
4.5/5
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her...
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Wet Gold
1982
Miss All-American Beauty
2/1
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning...
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Miss All-American Beauty
1991
Switched at Birth
6/5
This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not...
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Switched at Birth
1992
Hard Promises
5.1/8
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry....
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Hard Promises
1996
Unlikely Angel
6.7/12
A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.
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Unlikely Angel
1978
A Real American Hero
4/2
When two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Thoug...
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A Real American Hero
1995
Abandoned and Deceived
6.6/5
The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing t...
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Abandoned and Deceived
1997
Flash
8.2/13
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the famil...
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Flash
2004
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
5/7
A middle-aged woman has what she believes is a great life. She's been married for 25 years, she is the book editor at a newspaper where her husband is...
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
1995
It Came from Outer Space II
3.3/7
Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures...
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It Came from Outer Space II
2015
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
4.8/5
Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While...
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Addiction: A 60's Love Story
1986
King Kong! The Living Legend
0/0
Documentary special to promote the release of King Kong Lives, the grand opening of the King Kong attraction at Universal theme park, as well as a loo...
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King Kong! The Living Legend
1997
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
5.9/9
Angel Falls is a mountain ski resort where a nearby volcano is about to erupt. Volcanic scientist Peter Slater must convince his boss and the local po...
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Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
1992
Spies, Inc.
4.3/3
Spies from different nationalities stationed in a small Asian island work out a plot to create an international incident taking profit from it. Defrau...
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Spies, Inc.
1996
Critical Choices
6/2
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend...
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Critical Choices
1980
Power
2/1
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...
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Power
1980
Getting Wasted
6.5/2
An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around th...
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Getting Wasted
2004
Debating Robert Lee
6.333/3
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches th...
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Debating Robert Lee
1987
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
6.8/4
In the 1930's an aging film producer and his much younger wife live separate lives. Whenever a young starlet catches the husband's eye, he eventually...
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Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
2000
Common Ground
4.7/16
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's an...
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Common Ground
2014
You Must Be Joking
5.3/3
A New Yorker working as a paralegal searches for a new lease on life before a childhood friend inspires her to take up comedy.
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You Must Be Joking
2011
The Help
8.213/8179
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson...
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The Help
1996
Sins of Silence
6/2
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.
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Sins of Silence
1990
Challenger
6.2/5
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its e...
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Challenger
1984
Nickel Mountain
3.3/4
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, a...
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Nickel Mountain
1979
Hometown U.S.A.
1/1
High school loser Rodney C. Duckworth (Gary Springer) is known as The Rodent until one unforgettable night when he borrows a cherry-new Chevy converti...
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Hometown U.S.A.
1992
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
6/3
In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental insti...
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1998
Giving Up the Ghost
6/1
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide...
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Giving Up the Ghost
1979
The Paradise Connection
0/0
A notorious Chicago lawyer leaves his successful practice and goes to Hawaii to locate his missing son who abandoned a promising law career and has be...
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The Paradise Connection
1997
The Myth of Fingerprints
4.833/30
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
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The Myth of Fingerprints
1996
Dear Diary
6/8
A New York magazine art director, a married mother of two who just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal. The film won an O...
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Dear Diary
2006
The Exonerated
8/3
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
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The Exonerated
1983
Intimate Agony
4.3/3
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Or...
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Intimate Agony
1998
Mr. Jealousy
5.8/37
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriend...
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Mr. Jealousy
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
5.3/7
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
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