Brian Carpenter 
Brian Carpenter 
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What's New
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I recently shot a short film, "The Mischievous Case of Cordelia Botkin," set in 1890s San Francisco, in which I play the leading lady's stodgy old husband, Welcome Botkin. Here are a couple of stills from the set:
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I played railroad magnate Arnold Merriman in "Love Among the Ruins," the second episode of Mad Men's third season, working with series regulars Michael Gladis and Vincent Kartheiser:
Here are one-minute clips from "Three Faces Of Evelyn,"a new, two-character short film in which I play a troubled psychiatrist treating a multiple-personality patient Kathryn Taylor):
Here's a montage of my moments in the recently-aired "Kath & Kim." on NBC. I play opposite Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Jennifer Coolidge, and John Michael Higgins. I'm a "fussy" community theatre director who's auditioning actors for a musical. Three of them end up singing a rollicking version of a show tune that ends, literally, in fireworks!
Community Theatre Director (8.4MB)
Headshots
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Click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized photo:
Photos 1-16 by Joshua Gates. Photos 17-18 by Thomas Richter.
Film & Television
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In the sitcom 'Til Death, I played a kindly minister opposite series regular Brad Garrett:
In the 4th episode of The Sarah Silverman Program, I had a scene with Sarah Silverman in which I played the fussy judge of the Little Miss Rainbow contest, a beauty pageant for prepubescent girls:
I appeared on Boston Legal in the episode "Fat Burner," playing a medical expert witness, "Dr. Farrell," opposite series regular Rene Auberjonois:
I did a scene as a '50's TV shrink in the award-winning noir feature, Yesterday Was A Lie, directed by James Kerwin. The following clip is raw footage: in the final cut of the film, there will be audience sound effects (applause) and the audio will be "aged" to sound like a '50's TV broadcast:
In the final two-hour final episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives last season, I played a jewelry clerk in a (very short) scene with Richard Burgi (Karl) and Jamie Denton (Mike).
In the Jerry Bruckheimer/CBS crime drama Close to Home, I played Judge Myers in the episode, The Shot. Here are several short clips:
THE CALL
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"The Call," a short film in which I play the lead character (written, directed, shot, and edited by Thomas Richter), was the Winner of the John Sayles Award for Best Narrative Short at the Westcliffe Digital Film Festival in Westcliffe, Colorado. It also appeared in the New York International Independent Film Festival in LA and in the Santa Fe Film Festival, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"The Call" is the story of solitary telemarketer Ike Lundquist, whose humdrum existence is dramatically altered when, under the terms of a new Constitutional Amendment, he is required to perform a devastating"citizen's duty."
WE WERE SOLDIERS
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The following is my scene opposite Mel Gibson in the DVD of "We Were Soldiers." (It is in the "Deleted Scenes" section: "Moore debriefed by McNamara and Westmoreland." ) The first voice in the clip is that of Academy Award-winning director Randall Wallace, who comments,"This is another scene that was terrific...I thought the acting job was tremendous, Brian Carpenter playing Robert McNamara..."
ABLE EDWARDS
A sci-fi, all-digital, all-greenscreen "desktop cinema" movie, Able Edwards has also won several film festival awards. It was directed by Graham Robertson and exec produced by Steven Soderbergh. In the following scene, I appear as the chairman of the board of a corporation which clones its founder:
IN SEARCH OF JFK
I played a TV newscaster in a mockumentary, directed by Chuck Workman, about what might have happened had JFK escaped assassination. Here are two clips, one set in the 1960s, the other in the 1970s:
Other film and television work:
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Commercial
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AKA Talent Agency [Arlene]--(323) 965-5600
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Contacts
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Here's how to reach me for theatrical, commerical, voiceover, or print work:
Madcatch Entertainment (theatrical) [Robin McWilliams]
5870 Franklin Ave., #107
(323) 464-8189
Osbrink Agency (commercials) [Angela Strange & Crista Augustynovich]
4343 Lankershim Blvd., #100
(818)760-2803AKA Talent Agency (voiceover) [Arlene Jones & Nathan Higgins]
6310 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 965-5600Marian Berzon Agency (print, industrials--Orange County),
336 E. 17th St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(949) 631-5936
Homewood Customer (Spanish Version) (1.8MB)