This page will contain external links about Corbin Bernsen, as they become available.Corbin BernsenActor Corbin Bernsen starred in the TV show L.A. Law from 1986 until the show's end in 1994. He is the son of The Young and the Restless actress Jeanne Cooper. Since 2004, he played the recurring role of John Durant on General Hospital. This page about Corbin Bernsen includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Corbin Bernsen News stories about Corbin Bernsen External links for Corbin Bernsen Videos for Corbin Bernsen Wikis about Corbin Bernsen Discussion Groups about Corbin Bernsen Blogs about Corbin Bernsen Images of Corbin Bernsen |
|
Since 2004, he played the recurring role of John Durant on General Hospital. He did make several appearances on Broadway, in television (The Sid Caesar Show, 1963-1964) and in the movies, most notably in Mel Brooks's Silent Movie in 1976 and as Coach Calhoun in 1978's Grease, but even though he continues to work, he has never recaptured the stature he had in the Golden Age of Television. He is the son of The Young and the Restless actress Jeanne Cooper. In his autobiography he confesses that he turned to alcohol and drugs to overcome the insecurity of having a successful career unravel. Law from 1986 until the show's end in 1994. Caesar's life took a turn when his show Sid Caesar Invites You was cancelled in 1958. Actor Corbin Bernsen starred in the TV show L.A. Many prominent writers got their start writing the skits, including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Tolkin, and Larry Gelbart. These shows, particularly Your Show of Shows, brought together some of the greatest comic talent of the day, including Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. Over the next few years he hosted such hits as Your Show of Shows (1950-1954), Caesar's Hour (1954-1957) and Sid Caesar Invites You (1958). Television was a natural medium for Caesar. By 1949 he entered the new medium of television, hosting The Admiral Broadway Review. This took him to Los Angeles, where he got a part in two films, Tars and Spars, based on a wartime comedy routine he did, and The Guilt of Janet Ames. Caesar served in the Coast Guard during World War II, organizing entertainment for the enlisted men. While he earned a reputation as a talented musician in the "Borscht Belt" in the Catskills, he also began performing comedy sketches, and became a sensation. After graduating high school, he planned on a career in music, playing the saxophone. From them Sid learned to mimic many of the accents that he would use throughout his career. Caesar was born in Yonkers, where his father ran a lunch counter where immigrant workers would gather. Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. |