Michael Kearns

Michael Kearns

Born: January 8, 1950
in 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.

Movies for Michael Kearns...

Title: Old Dogs & New Tricks
Character: Bill Shannon
Released: July 30, 2011
Type: TV
Does (sex) life end for gay men as they face 50? Watch Nathan, Brad, Muscles & Ross stumble through middle-age in an alternate universe called West Hollywood.
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The Perfect Gentleman
Title: The Perfect Gentleman
Character: Charles
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Jonathan is poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy tycoon. The couple appears picture perfect, until the eve of their engagement party, when an unexpected guest threatens to destroy Jonathan's plans for the future.
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A Mother's Prayer
Title: A Mother's Prayer
Character: Buddy
Released: May 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Cleve
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Dream Man
Title: Dream Man
Released: October 25, 1991
Type: Movie
The Dream Man is a successful gay phone sex host who, with his vivid powers of imaginative impersonation, tempts and delights his ardent callers. In his fantasy role, he flips between the young innocent through to the S & M master but this performance belies a life that is lonely, loveless, and filled with emotional confusion.
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Title: Beverly Hills, 90210
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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The Execution
Title: The Execution
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
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Title: Crazy like a Fox
Character: Pro
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: TV
Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.
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Body Double
Title: Body Double
Character: Male Porn Star
Released: October 25, 1984
Type: Movie
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Reporter
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Cheers
Character: Richard
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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Rimbaud in L.A.
Title: Rimbaud in L.A.
Character: Tom Verlaine
Released: May 22, 1982
Type: Movie
In modern day Los Angeles, writer Paul Verlaine invites young provocating poet Arthur Rimbaud into the home of his step-family, losing interest in his wife as he becomes infatuated with the boy.
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Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Title: Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Character: Jack Perkins
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and bisexual husband Alan Campbell recall their often-rocky relationship, started thirty years earlier.
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L.A. Tool & Die
Title: L.A. Tool & Die
Character: Jim
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Hank follows the man of his dreams across the country from the El Paso Wrecking Corp. to L.A. Tool & Die.
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Silent No More
Title: Silent No More
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Pat Rocco's fictionalized document of the 1977 Christopher Street West carnival and parade.