Brian KerwinFilmography

Big Love: Season 02

Actors: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton

Monk: Mr. Monk Meets His Dad

Synopsis: At Christmastime, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) is reunited with his long-lost father Jack (Dan Hedaya), an itinerant truck driver--and as if this wasn't enough of a jolt to his senses, our hero discovers that he has a half-brother named Junior. In the spirit of bonding, Monk accompanies Jack, who has been Read More

Debating Robert Lee

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Beau Bridges, Kaley Cuoco, Dale Midkiff

Synopsis: A group of typical high-school students finds their foundations shaken and their beliefs challenged by a newly arrived debate teacher who makes it his mission to explore their innermost feelings on the subject of life and death. The setting is Palos Verdes, CA, and the teacher is Robert Lee (Dale Midkiff Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Thanks for the Memories

Synopsis: As Izzie (Katherine Heigl) busies herself preparing for a lavish Thanksgiving dinner, both Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Cristina (Sandra Oh) sneak back to the hospital. Upon arrival, Meredith helps Derek (Patrick Dempsey) look after a man who has awakened from a coma after sixteen years--only to Read More

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Synopsis: After 25 years of marriage, our heroine Rose (Christine Lathi), the book editor for the "LA Chronicle", is in for a shock. Her husband Nathan (Brian Kerwin), who is also her boss at the "Chronicle", has fallen in love with his much-younger assistant Mindy (Abby Brammell). Humiliating as it is when Read More

Law & Order: Missing

Synopsis: The detectives turn up some truly baffling "clues" while investigating the disappearance of a young woman. It turns out that the missing party, a political aide, was romantically involved with her married employer, state official Ted Weldon (Brian Kerwin). The key to the solution may hinge upon a Read More

Frasier: Don Juan in Hell, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Frasier's ninth-season opener, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) continues mulling over the past loves of his life as he tries to choose between his current amours Claire (Patricia Clarkson) and Lana (Jean Smart). In a surrealistic climax, virtually all of Frasier's women from Read More

Frasier: Don Juan in Hell, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of Frasier's ninth-season opener, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) finds himself on familiar territory as he is torn between two loves: Claire (Patricia Clarkson), with whom he'd vacationed in Belize in the series' season-eight finale, and Lana (Jean Smart), a troublesome but undeniably Read More

Beggars and Choosers: Season 02

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Charlotte Ross, Isabella Hoffman, Tuc Watkins, William McNamara

Synopsis: Season two of the uninhibited, uncensored satirical cable sitcom Beggars and Choosers begins with yet another vicious power play between E.L. Luddin (Bill Morey), doddering owner of the LGT television network, and his avaricious trophy bride Lydia (Carol Kane). In the final analysis, both Luddins Read More

Common Ground

Actors: Ed Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel each wrote episodes for this three-part made-for-cable drama which examines changing attitudes and issues facing the gay and lesbian community in the small town of Homer, Connecticut. Opening in the 1950s and leading up to the present day, Common Read More

Beggars and Choosers [TV Series]

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Isabella Hofmann, Carol Kane, Charlotte Ross, Paul Provenza

Synopsis: To paraphrase the late, great NBC programming executive Brandon Tartikoff, the television industry is comprised of two different groups of people: The "beggars," those actors, writers, directors, and producers who tirelessly and relentlessly package and pitch ideas, concepts, and premises for new Read More

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Actors: Kevin Anderson, Tom Skerritt, Naomi Watts, Brian Kerwin, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer concerns the notorious Ira Einhorn, a political activist turned murder suspect who eluded Philadelphia police for nearly 20 years. In 1968, Texas-born Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts) left home to attend Bryn Mawr College, and two years later she Read More

Beggars and Choosers: Season 01

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Charlotte Ross, Isabella Hoffman, Tuc Watkins, William McNamara

Synopsis: Season one of the racy Showtime sitcom Beggars and Choosers begins as Rob Malone (Brian Kerwin), the harried president of the LGT television network, pins all his hopes for high ratings and job security by greenlighting a reality series about a group of violent extroverts called the Mountainmen. Read More

Mr. Jealousy

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Christopher Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, former broadcast journalist and current substitute teacher Lester Grimm (Eric Stoltz) is not especially good at displaying a healthy trust in his relationships. Ever since the age of 15, when Lester's first girlfriend ditched him for a 24-year-old, Lester has displayed an Read More

Giving Up the Ghost

Actors: Marg Helgenberger, Alan Rosenberg, Bob Balaban, Brian Kerwin, Ron Lea

Synopsis: A widow's grief over the loss of her beloved husband is softened when he shows up one night to haunt her and tempt her into joining him in the afterlife. Made especially for the Lifetime Television Network, this romantic comedy drama stars the real-life husband-and-wife team of Alan Rosenberg and Marg Helgenberger Read More

The Myth of Fingerprints

Actors: Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider, Noah Wyle, Arija Bareikis, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Laurel Holloman, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: A family is torn between their need to air out their dirty laundry and their habit of sweeping things under the rug in this emotional drama. Hal (Roy Scheider) and Lena (Blythe Danner) are a successful but emotionally frosty New England couple whose four adult children are coming home for Read More

Volcano: Fire on the Mountain

Synopsis: Similar to the big-budget volcano film Dante's Peak, Volcano: Fire on the Mountain begins with an unfortunate couple who are consumed by lava after climbing to the peak of a rumbling volcano. Despite a the efforts of a volcanologist, the mountain community remains unconvinced and refuses to Read More

Flash

Actors: Lucas Black, Ellen Burstyn, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: Lucas Black and Ellen Burstyn star in this made-for-TV movie from Disney, in which a poor boy dreams of owning a horse named Flash. The boy's father can't afford to buy the animal and it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous trainer, much to the boy's sorrow. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

It Came from Outer Space 2

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Lauren Tewes, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Alien invaders descend upon a peaceful desert community and take over the minds and bodies of the residents. Now only a brave photographer can save them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Unlikely Angel

Actors: Dolly Parton, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Dolly Parton stars in this light-hearted story as Ruby Diamond, a singer who unexpectedly dies in an auto wreck and finds herself meeting the man at the pearly gates. Ruby discovers she did not rack up enough good deed points to enter the kingdom of Heaven, but she's given a second chance to come Read More

Dear Diary

Critical Choices

Actors: Betty Buckley, Pamela Reed, Diana Scarwid, Liisa Repo-Martell, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: An unplanned pregnancy throws a monkey wrench into the carefully orchestrated plans of a financially struggling young couple. They already have two children, and having another baby would force the mother to drop out of college and would be a terrible financial strain on the family. While trying Read More

Sins of Silence

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars in this TV movie as Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed (and grossly underfunded!) as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophia (Holly Marie Combs) seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that Read More

Abandoned and Deceived

Actors: Lori Loughlin, Brian Kerwin, Farrah Forke, Gordon Clapp

Synopsis: When the state of Ohio refuses to help a poor single mother get her child's father to pay support, she launches a statewide campaign to enact newer, better child-support laws. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Actors: Christina Ricci, Anna Chlumsky, Polly Draper

Synopsis: A teen from Los Angeles and her recently widowed mother move back to the family's Pacific Northwest home in 1980 to try to reassemble their lives. Young teen Beth at first hates country living, but then she meets the outspoken, defiant Jody and the two become fast friends. Jody has quite a Read More

Getting Away with Murder

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: A well-meaning man discovers the downside of taking the law into your own hands in this black comedy. Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd) is a college ethics professor who lives next door to a kindly old man of German descent named Max Mueller (Jack Lemmon); Jack is also in love with an attractive doctor Read More

Love Field

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a race-to-the-finish road movie. Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an insulated middle-class wife living in Texas in the early 1960s who adores the Kennedys, particularly Jackie, whom she feels is a kindred soul. When Read More

Hard Promises

Actors: William L. Petersen, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry

Synopsis: William Petersen's High Horse Films produced this romantic comedy that endeavors to recall the glory days of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Petersen stars as Joey Coalter, a roving adventurer who has been married to his wife Chris (Sissy Spacek) for almost thirteen years but has rarely been home. Read More

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Actors: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Harry Morgan, Brian Kerwin, Bruce Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: In a sequel to the superior movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Why Jackie Becomes a Trucker

Synopsis: Jackie runs into her ex-boyfriend, Gary (Brian Kerwin), and his new girlfriend. She acts out her desperation and ends up sleeping with Arnie (Tom Arnold), which she instantly regrets. Roseanne's boss, Leon (Martin Mull), visits the Conner home for Dan's weekly poker game. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Read More

Switched at Birth

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner, John M. Jackson, Lois Smith

Synopsis: The two-part, four-hour TV movie Switched at Birth is based on an actual event which began unfolding in Wauchula, Florida in 1978. Brian Kerwin and Judith Hoag play the new parents of a baby girl; a few days later, another couple, played by John M. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia, have a baby at the Read More

Roseanne: All of Me

Synopsis: "All of Me" is part one of a two-part episode. Jackie's thrilled about her new boyfriend, Gary (Brian Kerwin). As is her style, Roseanne has nothing but cynical remarks to make about him. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: To Tell the Truth

Synopsis: "To Tell the Truth" is part two of a two-part episode. Roseanne interferes a little too much with Jackie and Gary's (Brian Kerwin) relationship, ending up in a giant fight between Roseanne and Jackie. They decide not to speak to each other until Jackie breaks the news that she's getting engaged. Read More

Roseanne: Like a Virgin

Synopsis: When Roseanne finally sets out to talk to Becky about sex, she is surprised by Darlene's reaction. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Goodbye, Mr. Right

Synopsis: Gary (Brian Kerwin) is worried when Jackie gets hurt in the line of duty. She breaks up with him after he threatens to leave her if she doesn't quit her job as a police officer. Becky and Darlene are disturbed by what they find under D.J.'s bed. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Challenger

Actors: Karen Allen, Barry Bostwick, Julie Fulton, Richard Jenkins, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: Made for television, The Challenger is at once a tribute and a eulogy to the seven courageous souls who perished when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. Though all of the crew members are given three-dimensional, balanced treatment, the one we all Read More

Torch Song Trilogy

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Fierstein himself. The playwright also repeats his stage role of female impersonator Arnold Beckoff, aka nightclub entertainer "Virginia Hamm." The three-part plotline, whittled down to accommodate the film's Read More

Bluegrass

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

Code Name: Chaos

Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

King Kong Lives

Actors: Peter Anthony Elliott, Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, George Yiasumi, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Maraden

Synopsis: Pandering über-producer Dino De Laurentiis followed his unnecessary 1976 remake of King Kong with this even more pointless sequel ten years later. Though the colossal ape Kong took a half-gainer off the World Trade Center for Jessica Lange at the previous film's climax, we are told at the sequel's Read More

Murphy's Romance

Actors: Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson

Synopsis: Newly divorced Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) moves herself and her young son to a small Arizona town, hoping to establish a horse farm. Town pharmacist Murphy Jones (James Garner), the town's most eligible bachelor, develops a platonic friendship with Emma, but he decides to keep his distance when Read More

Nickel Mountain

Actors: Michael Cole, Heather Langenkamp, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Kerwin, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: Teen-aged waitress Heather Langekamp is impregnated by college student Patrick Cassidy. Heather's kindly "loser" boss Michael Cole provides aid and comfort for the lonely, confused girl. Her father Ed Lauter wants to finance an abortion, but Cole insists upon taking responsibility. He marries Read More

Wet Gold

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-TV adventure, a beautiful young woman and her drunken beach bum boy friend join the financially ruined owner of a diving shop and go looking for sunken treasure. Tensions mount as both men vie for the gold and the love of the woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Casts a Spell

Synopsis: Jose Ferrer guest stars in this episode--but not for long!--as a famed hypnotist known as The Amazing Cagliostro. As a publicity stunt, Cagliostro shepherds a group of six journalists behind locked doors, then hypnotizes them en masse. The act comes to an abrupt conclusion when Cagliostro is Read More

Highway to Heaven: Hotel of Dreams

Synopsis: In their latest earthly guises, angels Jonathan (Michael Landon) and Mark (Victor French) are employed as bellhops in a luxurious hotel. Their current "client" is Barry Rudd (Brian Kerwin), the listless, unmotivated son of millionaire Clinton Rudd (Jacques Aubuchon) . Employing methods both subtle Read More

Intimate Agony

Synopsis: This once-timely made-for-TV drama was originally titled Lovesick: The Herpes Story until wiser heads prevailed. Soap-opera favorites Anthony Geary and Judith Light starred as dedicated doctor Kyle Richardson and lovelorn tourist Marsha Sarno in this saga of a genital-herpes outbreak in a posh Read More

Power, Passion and Murder

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, George Murdock

Synopsis: Set during the '30s, this made-for-television sudser tells the melodramatic tale of a beautiful Hollywood starlet who throws away her promising career for the love of a married man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Miss All-American Beauty

Actors: Diane Lane

Synopsis: This TV-movie features a Texas beauty-queen contestant (Diane Lane) who is trying to earn money for college. A pianist, she learns a bit of self-respect during the competition. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Antony and Cleopatra

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jane Lapotaire, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: Perhaps inspired by the success of PBS' Shakespeare Plays series, Bard Productions Ltd. Came out with this diverting if not very cinematic adaptation of the Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Timothy Dalton plays Marc Antony, while Lynn Redgrave is uncharacteristically alluring as Queen Read More

Getting Wasted

Synopsis: When the drug craze of the '60s invades the straight-laced world of a military academy, a group of young cadets turn the school upside down. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Power

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV "roman a clef", Joe Don Baker stars as Tommy Vanda, a Hoffa-esque labor leader. Told in flashback, the film recounts Vanda's humble beginnings on the Chicago docks, where he gains fame and notoreity amongst his coworkers and his bosses by spearheading a wildcat strike. Rising Read More

The Chisholms

Synopsis: The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern homestead by a feud. Starting down the Ohio river, Preston Read More

The Paradise Connection

Synopsis: In this drama, a prestigious lawyer chucks it all to begin a quest for his long-lost son who is now living somewhere in Hawaii. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hometown USA

Actors: Gary Springer, David Wilson, Brian Kerwin, Pat Delaney, Julie Parsons

Synopsis: Max Baer Jr. borrows liberally from George Lucas's American Graffiti for this slice-of-life look at teenage life circa 1957. The story concerns a group of adolescents whose main concerns are cars, cruising, and sex. The story centers upon Rodney C. Duckworth (Gary Springer), a shy, virginal teen Read More

A Real American Hero

Actors: Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, scrupulously honest Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser (played in the films by Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson), with Forrest Tucker Read More