Brophy, Brian

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BROPHY, Brian

PERSONAL


Education: California State University, Los Angeles, M.A.


Addresses: Agent Tyler Kjar Agency, 5116 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601. Office The Actors' Gang Theater, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038.

Career: Actor and director. Actors Gang, Los Angeles, CA, member of company, 1985; University of California, Riverside, Pomona College, and Cal Arts, lecturer, c. 2003; worked with communitybased theatre groups.


CREDITS

Film Appearances:

The Roommate, 1988.

Damon, Skinheads (also known as Skinheads: The Second Coming of Hate ), Amazing Movies, 1989.

Nate Blitman, Donatlli's attorney, An Innocent Man, Buena Vista, 1989.

Ellis, Brain Dead (also known as Paranoia ), Concorde, 1990.

Voice of Phil/Blackmailer, The Player, Fine Line, 1992.

Kevin, Freaked (also known as Hideous Mutant Freekz ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1993.

Store manager, Quick (also known as Crossfire ), New City Releasing, 1993.

Welles, Future Shock, Hannover House, 1993.

Carman, At Ground Zero, 1994.

Parole hearings man (1967), The Shawshank Redemption, Columbia, 1994.

Slick, Guardian Angel (also known as Beyond Justice ), 1994.

Dr. Taylor, Project: Metalbeast, 1995.

Bank teller, White Man's Burden (also known as White Man ), Savoy Pictures, 1995.

Philip K., The Nervous Breakdown of Philip K. Dick, Big Film Shorts, 1996.

Backus, City of Industry, Orion, 1997.

Harry, The Girl Gets Moe (also known as Love to Kill ), New City Releasing, 1997.

Swim team manager, Kiss the Girls, Paramount, 1997.

Bartholomew Trust, The Seller, Proletariat Pictures, 1997.

Padre Delbert, Ocean Tribe, 1997.

Bomb expert, Ted, 1998.

NASA tech, Armageddon, Buena Vista, 1998.

(Uncredited) Extra, The Waterboy, Buena Vista, 1998.

Pierre de Rohan, Cradle Will Rock, Buena Vista, 1999.

CNN reporter, Picking up the Pieces, KushnerLocke Company, 2000.

Military official, Imposter, Dimension Films, 2002.

Barney Montana, A Day without a Mexican, Altavista Films, 2004.


Film Work:

Automated dialogue replacement loop group, Dead Man Walking, Gramercy, 1995.


Television Appearances; Series:

Slick, Cameo by Night, 1987.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Medical examiner, Invasion (also known as Robin Cook's Invasion ), NBC, 1997.


Television Appearances; Movies:

Sean Anderson, Sight Unseen, syndicated, 1991.

Wine steward, Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash, USA Network, 1993.

Agent Chutuk, Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery, CBS, 1994.

Special agent Donovan, Sleep, Baby, Sleep, ABC, 1995.

L.A. reporter, Virus (also known as Formula for Death, Robin Cook's "Formula for Death, " and Robin Cook's Virus ), NBC, 1995.

Detective Benny Francis, Sleeping with the Devil, CBS, 1997.


Television Appearances; Pilots:

Slick, Cameo by Night, NBC, 1987.


Television Appearances; Episodic:

Traker, "The Blanks," Max Headroom, ABC, 1987.

Commander Bruce Maddox, "The Measure of a Man," Star Trek: The Next Generation, syndicated, 1989.

"Mannequins of Horror," Monsters, syndicated, 1989.

Van Dyke, "Stranger in a Strange Land," Hard Time on Planet Earth, 1989.

Fashion designer, "The Royal Mystery," Father Dowling Mysteries, ABC, 1990.

Reporter, "The Warmth Episode," The Larry Sanders Show, HBO, 1992.

Edgar Wharton, "Learning from the Masters," Profiler, NBC, 1997.

Investigator, "The Exile," Perversions of Science, HB0, 1997.


Stage Appearances:

Uncle and Yang Sun, the flyer, Good Woman of Setzuan, 1990.

Taino Radio and reporter, MAYHEM: The Invasion, L.A. Theatre Works, 1992.

Cover for Tyndareus, Orestes, 1994.

Aegisthus, The Oresteia, 1994.

The Seagull, Actors' Gang Theater, Hollywood, CA, 20012002.

Thomas Bruckner, Mephisto, Actors' Gang Theater, 20012002.


Stage Director:

MAYHEM: The Invasion, L.A. Theatre Works, 1992.


Also directed Tales of the Lost Formicans, The Laramie Project, and Book of Days, all University of California, Riverside.

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