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 ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', and in television productions including ''

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'', '' Law & Order'', ''

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'', 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

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at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.Kent Broadhurst
at Doollee.com He wrote the screenplay for the 2001 television film '' Wild Iris''. Broadhurst was born in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1962, and now lives in New York.

Gallery

Examples of Broadhurst's work as a painter: File:Self Portrait - At 30 by Kent Broadhurst.jpg, ''At 30''
(1970) File:Traveling Light.jpg, ''Traveling Light''
(1970) File:Jennifer Warren.jpg, ''Jennifer Warren''
(1976) File:Kythera by a Window.jpg, ''Kythera by a Window''
(1967) File:Evolving Man.jpg, ''Evolving Man''
(1976) File:The Julian Mark Family of Stamford Connecticut.jpg, ''The Julian Mark Family of Stamford Connecticut''
(1968) File:LA POV.jpg, ''LA POV''
(1993) File:Doctor Joe Santo.jpg, ''Doctor Joe Santo
(1973)

Filmography

References

External links

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Kent Broadhurst
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Broadhurst, Kent 1940 births American male stage actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from St. Louis 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights University of Nebraska alumni