Kent Broadhurst

Kent Broadhurst
Born	(1940-02-04) February 4, 1940 St. Louis, Missouri
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. 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.

Gallery

Examples of Broadhurst's work as a painter:

• 
  At 30
  (1970)
• 
  Traveling Light
  (1970)
• 
  Jennifer Warren
  (1976)
• 
  Kythera by a Window
  (1967)
• 
  Evolving Man
  (1976)
• 
  The Julian Mark Family of Stamford Connecticut
  (1968)
• 
  LA POV
  (1993)
• 
  Doctor Joe Santo
  (1973)

Filmography

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")

External links

• Kent Broadhurst at IMDb
• Kent Broadhurst at the Internet Off-Broadway Database