Cast & creator
Brian Kerwin
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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.
Also known as: Brain Kerwin, Брайан Кервин
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84
1968–2015 · acting roles
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Filmography (84)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Evan Ramsey
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Stanley Billings
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Roger Murray
1999
Law & Order
Ted Weldon
1990
Grey's Anatomy
Holden McKee
2005
Desperate Housewives
Harvey Bigsby
2004
The West Wing
Ben Dryer
1999
Frasier
Bob
1993
Monk
Ben Glazer
2002
The Love Boat
1977The Love Boat
Ted Lawrence
1977The Love Boat
Hank Austin
1977
Elementary
Charles Cooper
2012
Without a Trace
Randall Parker
2002
Medium
Nathan Bradley
2005
Nip/Tuck
Eugene Alderman
2003
Great Performances
Hal Graham
1971
Murder, She Wrote
Andy Townsend
1984
Strong Medicine
Leslie Campbell
2000
Boston Legal
Jack Fleming
2004
St. Elsewhere
Terence O'Casey
1982
Simon & Simon
1981
Highway to Heaven
1984
Big Love
Eddie
2006
Tales from the Crypt
Donald
1989
Close to Home
Lee Towers
2005
The Hitchhiker
Doctor Winters
1983
The Help
Robert Phelan
2011
The Client List
Garrett Landry
2012
B. J. and the Bear
1979
The Knick
Corky
2014
One Life to Live
Charlie Banks
1968
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Birdie Hawkins
1979
27 Dresses
Hal Nichols
2008
Beggars and Choosers
Rob Malone
1999
Roseanne
1988
Logan's Run
Patrick
1977
The Blue and the Gray
Malachy Hale
1982
Jack
Brian Powell
1996
The Chisholms
Gideon Chisholm
1979
King Kong Lives
Hank Mitchell
1986
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Bluegrass
Dancy Cutler
1988
Love Field
Ray Hallett
1992
Switched at Birth
Robert Mays
1991
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Matt Hollinger
1995Angel Falls
Eli Harrison
1993
Mr. Jealousy
Stephen
1998
Torch Song Trilogy
Ed Reese
1988
The Myth of Fingerprints
Elliot
1997
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Getting Away with Murder
Marty Lambert
1996
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Nathan Lloyd
2004
Murphy's Romance
Bobby Jack Moriarty
1985
You Must Be Joking
Sandy
2014
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Buck Adams
1997
Hometown U.S.A.
T. J. Swackhammer
1979
Miss All-American Beauty
Michael Carrington
1982
Spies, Inc.
Jim
1992
It Came from Outer Space II
Jack Putnam
1995
Giving Up the Ghost
Kevin
1998
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Jack Adkins
1992
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
Hal Graham
1987
A Real American Hero
Til Johnson
1978
Flash
David Strong
1997
Challenger
Captain Michael J. Smith
1990
Unlikely Angel
Ben Bartilson
1996
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Irv Bornstein
2015
Hard Promises
Walt
1992
Abandoned and Deceived
Doug
1995
The Tragedy of King Lear
1982
Debating Robert Lee
Gary Mann
2004
Critical Choices
Rev. Bobby Ray Flood
1996
Wet Gold
Ben Keating, the Diver
1984
The Exonerated
Cop #2
2006
Common Ground
Chuck Dawson
2000
Dear Diary
Tom
1996
The Paradise Connection
Bruce Douglas
1979King Kong! The Living Legend
Self
1986
Nickel Mountain
George
1984
Sins of Silence
Joey Finn
1996
Intimate Agony
Nick Todd
1983
Getting Wasted
Brad
1980