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Corbin Bernsen

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Corbin Bernsen

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  • Trained in Jeet Kune Do from the late Bruce Lee
  • He owns over 7000 snowglobes.
  • Was so eager to get the role in L.A. Law (1986) that he drove cross-country in his jeep to track down Steven Bochco and ask him to give him another shot.
  • Corbin's father, whose family's surname was originally "Bernstein", was of German Jewish descent. Corbin's mother had English, Scottish, and more distant Welsh and French, ancestry.
  • Artist Wayne Barlowe picked Bernsen to be his model for a series of paintings used as cover art for science fiction paperbacks, most notably Keith Laumer's "James Bond in Space" Retief series.
  • Married second wife, Amanda Pays, when she was 6 months pregnant.
  • Acting mentor was Richard Dysart.
  • Son of Jeanne Cooper and Harry Bernsen.
  • Sons with Amanda Pays: Oliver Bernsen (b. 14 March 1989), twins Henry Bernsen & Angus Bernsen (b. 19 March 1992), and Finley Bernsen (b. 9 June 1998).
  • Older brother of actor Collin Bernsen and Caren Bernsen.
  • Acting protégé of Richard Dysart.
  • Graduated Beverly Hills High School in 1972.
  • President of Public Media Works; a Television and Motion Picture Production Company with an interactive Virtual Studio at www.publicmediaworks.com
  • Member of the jury at the Beverly Hills film festival, along with Billy Zane, Martiros Vartanov, James Russo, Robert Davi, Elisa Donovan. (2009)
  • Is cousin of Rod Bernsen, who is known as Southern California's #1 police news-specialist for Fox 11 News.
  • He co-hosted the emergency action video, In a Split Second (1994) with his wife Amanda Pays. The video originally aired on NBC television.
  • MFA Theater Arts, UCLA
  • Son-in-law of Howard Pays and Jan Miller.
  • Nephew-in-law of Mandy Miller.
  • Due completing a UK based film joined many co-stars from prior shows when marketing PR visited the most densely packed (UK non-Award), celebrity event 'Save the Rose Theatre' campaigns, public PR day, May 1989. [See also S.O.B. (1981) & Major League (1989). ].
  • Shares the same birthday as Doug Bradley.

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