# Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin (born October 25, 1949) is an American actor who has starred in feature films, Broadway shows, and television series and movies.

## Life

Kerwin was born in Chicago and raised in Flossmoor, Illinois. He has three siblings, Anne, Dennis, and Terrence.
Kerwin married Jeanne Marie Troy on September 2, 1990, and they had three children, Finn, Matilda, and Brennan. She died at the family home in Venice, California, on February 11, 2016, at age 55 after a three-year battle with brain cancer.

## Career

After graduating from USC Film School in 1972, Kerwin moved to New York to work in theater. won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005. The same year, he starred in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? at the Mark Taper Forum.
In 1989, he played Nick in a revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Doolittle Theatre (now the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre) in Los Angeles. The production, directed by the playwright, starred Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow, with Cynthia Nixon as Kerwin's character's wife, Honey. The production was not well received. He 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 original Broadway production of 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, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, 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.
His credits on TV include a regular role on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, recurring roles on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Chisholms (four episodes), Roseanne (as Gary Hall), 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, Blue Bloods, Boston Legal, Medium, Without a Trace, and Desperate Housewives. From 2007 to 2012, he appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1979 | Hometown U.S.A. | T. J. Swackhammer |
| 1980 | Getting Wasted | Brad Carson |
| 1982 | The Tragedy of King Lear | King of France |
| 1984 | Nickel Mountain | George |
| 1985 | Murphy's Romance | Bobby Jack Moriarity |
| 1986 | King Kong Lives | Hank Mitchell |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy | Ed Reese |
| 1991 | Hard Promises | Walt |
| 1992 | Love Field | Ray Hallett |
| 1992 | Spies Inc. | Jim |
| 1995 | Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain | Matt Hollinger |
| 1996 | Getting Away with Murder | Marty Lambert |
| 1996 | Jack | Brian Powell |
| 1997 | The Myth of Fingerprints | Elliot |
| 1997 | Mr. Jealousy | Stephen |
| 2004 | Debating Robert Lee | Gary Mann |
| 2008 | 27 Dresses | Hal |
| 2011 | The Help | Robert Phelan |
| 2014 | Are You Joking? | Sandy |
| 2015 | Addiction: A 60's Love Story | Irv Bornstein |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1977 | Logan's Run | Patrick | Episode: "The Innocent" |
| 1978 | The Busters | Albie McRae | Television film |
| 1978 | David Cassidy: Man Undercover | Ernie | Episode: "Running the Hill" |
| 1978 | A Real American Hero | Til Johnson | Television film |
| 1979 | The Chisholms | Gideon Chisholm | 4 episodes |
| 1979 | The Paradise Connection | Bruce Douglas | Television film |
| 1979 | B. J. and the Bear | Deputy Birdie Hawkins | 3 episodes |
| 1979–1981 | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Deputy Birdie Hawkins | 38 episodes |
| 1980 | Power | Jack Vanda | Television film |
| 1980 | CHiPs | Brian Kerwin | Episode: "The Great 5K Star Race and Boulder Wrap Party" |
| 1980–1981 | The Love Boat | Ted Lawrence / Hank Austin | 3 episodes |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Malachy Hale | 3 episodes |
| 1982 | Miss All-American Beauty | Michael Carrington | Television film |
| 1983 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Mike | Episode: "Winner" |
| 1983 | Intimate Agony | Nick Todd | Television film |
| 1984 | Antony and Cleopatra | Eros | Television film |
| 1984 | Simon & Simon | Taylor Martin / Slack Reynolds | Episode: "The Dark Side of the Street" |
| 1984 | Wet Gold | Ben Keating, the Diver | Television film |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | Barry Rudd | Episode: "Hotel of Dreams" |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Andy Townsend | Episode: "Death Casts a Spell" |
| 1986 | St. Elsewhere | Terence O'Casey | 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Great Performances | Hal Graham | Episode: "Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson" |
| 1988 | Bluegrass | Dancy Cutler | Television film |
| 1989 | The Hitchhiker | Doctor Winters | Episode: "Shadow Puppets" |
| 1990 | Challenger | Michael J. Smith | Television film |
| 1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Donald | Episode: "Judy, You're Not Yourself Today" |
| 1990 | Roseanne | Gary Hall | 4 episodes |
| 1991 | Switched at Birth | Robert Mays | Miniseries |
| 1992 | Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore | Jack Adkins | Television film |
| 1993 | Angel Falls | Eli Harrison | 5 episode |
| 1995 | Abandoned and Deceived | Doug | Television film |
| 1996 | It Came from Outer Space II | Jack Putnam | Television film |
| 1996 | Sins of Silence | Joey Finn | Television film |
| 1996 | Critical Choices | Flood | Television film |
| 1996 | Unlikely Angel | Ben Bartilson | Television film |
| 1997 | Volcano: Fire on the Mountain | Buck Adams | Television film |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney | David Strong | Episode: "Flash" |
| 1998 | Dead Man's Gun | Teddy Boyd / Joe Wheeler | Episode: "The Resurrection of Joe Wheeler" |
| 1998 | Giving Up the Ghost | Kevin | Television film |
| 1998 | Killer App | Larry Dawkens | Television film |
| 1999 | The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer | Saul Lapidus | Television film |
| 1999–2001 | Beggars and Choosers | Rob Malone | 42 episodes |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Chuck Dawson | Television film |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Gary Tucker | Television film |
| 2001 | Frasier | Rob | 2 episodes |
| 2001–2021 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | Law & Order | Ted Weldon | Episode: "Missing" |
| 2002–2003 | Strong Medicine | Les Campbell / Leslie Campbell | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | The West Wing | Ben Dryer | 3 episodes |
| 2004 | Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman | Nathan Lloyd | Television film |
| 2004 | Boston Legal | Jack Fleming | Episode: "Truth Be Told" |
| 2005 | The Exonerated | Cop #2 | Television film |
| 2005 | Medium | Nathan Bradley | Episode: "Too Close to Call" |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Holden McKee | Episode: "Thanks for the Memories" |
| 2005 | Nip/Tuck | Eugene Alderman | 4 episodes |
| 2006 | Close to Home | Lee Towers | Episode: "The Good Doctor" |
| 2006 | Without a Trace | Randall Parker | Episode: "Stolen" |
| 2006 | Desperate Housewives | Harvey Bigsby | 2 episodes |
| 2006 | Monk | Ben Glazer | Episode: "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad" |
| 2007 | Big Love | Eddie | 4 episodes |
| 2007–2011 | One Life to Live | Charlie Banks | 308 episodes |
| 2011 | A Gifted Man | Jim Marks | Episode: "In Case of All Hell Breaking Loose" |
| 2012 | The Client List | Garrett Landry | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Elementary | Charles Cooper | Episode: "Flight Risk" |
| 2013 | Blue Bloods | Pete Seabrook | Episode: "No Regrets" |
| 2014 | Dangerous Liaisons | Senator Fontaine | Television film |
| 2014–2015 | The Knick | Corky Vanderbilt | 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Hindsight | Lincoln | 5 episodes |
| 2019 | Madam Secretary | Deputy Secretary Steven Bailey | Episode: "The Great Experiment" |