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Kent Broadhurst

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Kent Broadhurst
Born (1940-02-04) February 4, 1940 (age 84)
Occupation(s)Actor, playwright, screenwriter, and painter

Kent Broadhurst (born February 4, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter and painter.

He has appeared in a number of off-Broadway and regional theater productions.[1] 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.[2] 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,[citation needed] and now lives in New York.

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Examples of Broadhurst's work as a painter:

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1980 Brubaker Whitley
1982 The Verdict Joseph Alito
1983 Lovesick Gay Patient
1983 Silkwood Carl
1985 Silver Bullet Herb Kincaid
1996 Seize the Day Trader #3
1988 Stars and Bars Ben Sereno
1990 A Shock to the System Executive #1
1992 Mac Mr. Tobin
1993 The Dark Half Mike Donaldson
1994 Léon: The Professional 1st Policeman
1996 A Couch in New York Tim
1997 Boys Life 2 Blondie (segment "Alkali, Iowa")

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