Kent Broadhurst


Kent Broadhurst is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter and painter.
He has appeared in a number of off-Broadway and regional theater productions. Broadhurst has also acted in films, including The Verdict, Silkwood, and Silver Bullet, and in television productions including Babylon 5, Law & Order, War and Remembrance, and Kane and Abel. As a live performer, Broadhurst provided the on-stage narration in the role of the hypnotherapist in progressive metal band Dream Theater's New York City performance of Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. This performance was documented in the band's DVD Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York.
His credits as a playwright include They're Coming To Make It Brighter, Lemons, The Eye of the Beholder, and The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, all first produced at the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He wrote the screenplay for the 2001 television film Wild Iris.
Broadhurst was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1962, and now lives in New York.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980BrubakerWhitley
1982The VerdictJoseph Alito
1983LovesickGay Patient
1983SilkwoodCarl
1985Silver BulletHerb Kincaid
1996Seize the DayTrader #3
1988Stars and BarsBen Sereno
1990A Shock to the SystemExecutive #1
1992MacMr. Tobin
1993The Dark HalfMike Donaldson
1994Léon: The Professional1st Policeman
1996A Couch in New YorkTim
1997Boys Life 2Blondie

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985The EqualizerNobleEpisode: "The Confirmation Day"
1985Kane and AbelTony SimmonsTV miniseries
1988War and RemembranceCapt. George Murray TV miniseries
1994Babylon 5Major Lewis KrantzEpisode: "Babylon Squared"
1996Babylon 5Lewis KrantzEpisode: "War Without End: Part Two"
1993–2002Law & Order4 episodes
2000Law & Order: Special Victims UnitLarry HoltEpisode: "Nocturne"
2011Person of InterestHeinrich Hauffe1 episode