Michael Kearns
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
A Mother's Prayer
1995
Rimbaud in L.A.
1982
Dream Man
1991
The Perfect Gentleman
2010
L.A. Tool & Die
1979
Silent No More
1977
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
1982
Body Double
1984
The Execution
1985
And the Band Played On
1993
It's My Party
1996
River Made to Drown In
1997
Street Asylum
1990
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
Old Dogs & New Tricks
2011
Crazy like a Fox
1984
Cheers
1982
Knots Landing
1979
Murder, She Wrote
1984