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