
Kent Broadhurst
Actor · 1940 – 2026 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Kent Broadhurst (February 4, 1940 — May 20, 2026) was 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 lived in New York until his death in May 2026. Source: Article "Kent Broadhurst" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Movie8.3CrimeDramaLéon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.
Movie7.5DramaFrank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
The Verdict
1982 · 767 votes
Movie6.7HorrorThe small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
Silver Bullet
1985 · 725 votes
Movie6.0MysteryHorrorFollowing the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.
The Dark Half
1993 · 485 votes
Movie7.1CrimeDramaThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Brubaker
1980 · 530 votes
Movie6.9DramaLike most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
Silkwood
1983 · 366 votes
Movie6.5CrimeComedyWhen experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.
A Shock to the System
1990 · 152 votes
Movie5.5DramaOn his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the Midwest. But things become clearer for him when he discovers via a rusty old lunch box filled with gay magazines that his father, killed in Vietnam, led a double life down on the farm. But as liberating as the discovery is for Jack, it is painful for his grandfather and mother, who have tried for years to keep it a family secret. Now Jack must decide whether to share this new information with his younger sister or allow it to remain buried a while longer.
Alkali, Iowa
1995 · 16 votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedyA burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early and becomes a patient as well.
Movie4.8WesternTV MovieHawkes, Jones and Cassidy are on their way to the biggest poker game in history. But a few folks want to see them fold before they even get there.
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991 · 10 votes
Movie5.4DramaTV MovieReligious fanatics are barricaded in a building and surrounded by police. But they're not going to surrender; they prefer to die.
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
1993 · 13 votes
Movie4.4ComedyA British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Stars & Bars
1988 · 21 votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedySigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Lovesick
1983 · 15 votes
Movie4.8DramaTV MovieThe movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
I Want to Live
1983 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyTV MovieA mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980 · 2 votes
Movie6.8TV MovieDramaA free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
1991 · 6 votes
Movie5.0TV MovieThrillerAn American newsman in Rome begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
Touch and Die
1991 · 4 votes
MovieIn this series of short films, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Featuring Mark Christopher's classic shorts "The Dead Boys' Club", "Alkali, Iowa", and "Heartland".
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TV7.3CrimeDramaIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Law & Order
1990 · 722 votes
TV8.0CrimeDramaIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 4.4K votes
TV8.1Action & AdventureCrimeJohn Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.
Person of Interest
2011 · 2.2K votes
TV7.1Action & AdventureCrimeRobert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
The Equalizer
1985 · 69 votes
TV8.0DramaSci-Fi & FantasyBabylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
Babylon 5
1994 · 622 votes
TV6.9DramaCrimeMystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · 34 votes
TV8.2Drama100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.
100 Centre Street
2001 · 4 votes
TV7.9DramaWar & PoliticsFollowing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
War and Remembrance
1988 · 37 votes
TV7.7DramaPolish immigrant Abel Rosnovski and Boston banker William Lowell Kane are two men born on the same day, and whose lifelong rivalry shapes their empires and families over decades. Their contrasting paths from poverty and wealth lead to a destructive, decades-long feud for power.
Kane & Abel
1985 · 20 votes
TV6.3DramaWar & PoliticsKennedy is a five-hour miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries was produced by Central Independent Television and originally aired in the United States starting on 20 November 1983 around the time of the 20th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. The TV miniseries was a biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy. The mini-series stars Martin Sheen as President John F. Kennedy, John Shea as Robert F. Kennedy, Blair Brown as Jacqueline Kennedy, E.G. Marshall as Joseph P. Kennedy, Vincent Gardenia as J. Edgar Hoover and Kelsey Grammer as Stephen Smith amongst many others. The series was broadcast on NBC, and was also sold to 50 Countries, with 27 of them broadcasting the series simultaneous. The series was nominated for 3 Golden Globes and 4 BAFTA, and won Baftas for Best Drama Series and Best Make Up.
Kennedy
1983 · 18 votes