Actor

Michael Kearns

January 8, 1950 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Michael Kearns (born January 8, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and activist. He is noted for being one of the first openly gay actors, and after an announcement on Entertainment Tonight in 1991, the first openly HIV-positive actor in Hollywood.

Notable work

6.7
Body Double (1984)
as Male Porn Star
7.3
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
as Hal
7.6
Cheers (1982)
as Richard
7.5
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Reporter

Often works with

Harry Hart-Browne
3 titles together
Street Asylum, Rimbaud in L.A., Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Gregg Henry
2 titles together
Body Double, Murder, She Wrote
George LaFleur
2 titles together
Rimbaud in L.A., Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
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Kristy Allman
2 titles together
Rimbaud in L.A., Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
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Franc Caggiano
2 titles together
Rimbaud in L.A., Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
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Strawn Bovee
2 titles together
Rimbaud in L.A., Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place

Full filmography · 18

The Perfect Gentleman
as Charles
2010
River Made to Drown In
as Arthur
1997
It's My Party
as Party Guest
19966.3
A Mother's Prayer
as Buddy
1995
And the Band Played On
as Cleve
19936.4
Dream Man
cast
1991
Street Asylum
as Additional Voices
1990
The Execution
cast
1985
Body Double
as Male Porn Star
19846.7
Rimbaud in L.A.
as Tom Verlaine
1982
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
as Jack Perkins
1982
Silent No More
cast
1977