Brian Kerwin
Acting
Born: October 25, 1949 (age 76) · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Highest Rated
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
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Help
2011
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
27 Dresses
2008
Desperate Housewives
2004
Elementary
2012
Jack
1996
Monk
2002
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Frasier
1993
Law & Order
1990
The West Wing
1999
Photos (1)
Movies (41)
The Help
Robert Phelan
27 Dresses
Hal Nichols
King Kong Lives
Hank Mitchell
Jack
Brian Powell
Love Field
Ray Hallett
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Matt Hollinger
Mr. Jealousy
Stephen
The Myth of Fingerprints
Elliot
A Real American Hero
Til Johnson
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Nathan Lloyd
Torch Song Trilogy
Ed Reese
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Miss All-American Beauty
Michael Carrington
Getting Away with Murder
Marty Lambert
You Must Be Joking
Sandy
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Buck Adams
It Came from Outer Space II
Jack Putnam
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Hal Graham
Abandoned and Deceived
Doug
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Irv Bornstein
Critical Choices
Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
Murphy's Romance
Bobby Jack Moriarty
Spies, Inc.
Jim
Unlikely Angel
Ben Bartilson
Hometown U.S.A.
T. J. Swackhammer
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Jack Adkins
Flash
David Strong
The Exonerated
Cop #2
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
Common Ground
Chuck Dawson
Challenger
Captain Michael J. Smith
Giving Up the Ghost
Kevin
Debating Robert Lee
Gary Mann
Hard Promises
Walt
Dear Diary
Tom
Sins of Silence
Joey Finn
Getting Wasted
Brad
Wet Gold
Ben Keating, the Diver
Intimate Agony
Nick Todd
Nickel Mountain
George
The Paradise Connection
Bruce Douglas
TV Shows (41)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Evan Ramsey · 1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Stanley Billings · 1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Roger Murray · 1 eps
Law & Order
Ted Weldon · 1 eps
Grey's Anatomy
Holden McKee · 1 eps
Desperate Housewives
Harvey Bigsby · 2 eps
Frasier
Bob · 2 eps
Monk
Ben Glazer · 1 eps
The West Wing
Ben Dryer · 3 eps
Without a Trace
Randall Parker · 1 eps
Elementary
Charles Cooper · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Andy Townsend · 1 eps
The Love Boat
1 eps
The Love Boat
Ted Lawrence · 1 eps
The Love Boat
Hank Austin · 2 eps
Boston Legal
Jack Fleming · 1 eps
Medium
Nathan Bradley · 1 eps
Nip/Tuck
Eugene Alderman · 4 eps
Great Performances
Hal Graham · 1 eps
Strong Medicine
Leslie Campbell · 2 eps
St. Elsewhere
Terence O'Casey · 2 eps
Big Love
Eddie · 4 eps
Simon & Simon
1 eps
Highway to Heaven
1 eps
Tales from the Crypt
Donald · 1 eps
Close to Home
Lee Towers · 1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Doctor Winters · 1 eps
The Client List
Garrett Landry · 3 eps
Battle of the Network Stars
2 eps
B. J. and the Bear
1 eps
The Knick
Corky · 1 eps
Logan's Run
Patrick · 1 eps
One Life to Live
Charlie Banks · 3742 eps
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Birdie Hawkins · 37 eps
Beggars and Choosers
Rob Malone · 42 eps
Roseanne
4 eps
The Blue and the Gray
Malachy Hale · 3 eps
The Chisholms
Gideon Chisholm · 4 eps
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
2 eps
Bluegrass
Dancy Cutler · 2 eps
Switched at Birth
Robert Mays · 2 eps