Brian Smiar

Actor 1982–2007 (25 year career)

6.0 avg rating

Highest Rated

A Woman Named Jackie

1991 · as Lyndon B. Johnson

9.2

Third Watch

1999 · as Leonard's Dad

7.9

Hack

2002 · as Bill Olshansky

7.7

Known For

Film

The Royal Tenenbaums

Elderly 'Baumer' Fan #1

Film

The Great Debaters

Harvard Dean

Film

Regarding Henry

Dr. Marx, Chief of Staff

Film

Shadows and Fog

Cop at Police Station

Film

The Next Karate Kid

O'Connor

Film

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Judge

Film

Boss of Bosses

Jimmy Malone

Film

Cheers

Sergeant Rainer

Filmography

Acting (24)

Movies (15)

The Great Debaters

2007

as Harvard Dean

7.2

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

as Elderly 'Baumer' Fan #1

7.5

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

as Judge

Boss of Bosses

as Jimmy Malone

Radical Jack

as Ollie

Stranger in My House

as Barry Simpson

The Bachelor's Baby

The Next Karate Kid

as O'Connor

In My Daughter's Name

1992

as Judge #1

6.2

Regarding Henry

1991

as Dr. Marx, Chief of Staff

6.5

Shadows and Fog

1991

as Cop at Police Station

A Matter of Degrees

as Dean Simon

Age Isn't Everything

as Dr. Bush

A Town's Revenge

as John Nelson

The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

1982

as Gus

6.0

Television (9)

Hack

2002

as Bill Olshansky

7.7

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Mr. Eldon

Third Watch

as Leonard's Dad

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

as Edwin Costin (segment "The Ice Box")

A Woman Named Jackie

as Lyndon B. Johnson

Law & Order

as Arraignment Court Judge Harper

7.3

The Murder of Mary Phagan

1988

5.8

The Slap Maxwell Story

as Nelson Kruger

Cheers

as Sergeant Rainer