title: Kent Broadhurst
text: # Kent Broadhurst
  
  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.
  
  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") |
  