Acting After a two-year appearance on the soap opera ''
Ryan's Hope, The series became a hit, and the role earned him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, appearances on magazine covers, and guest-starring roles on Seinfeld and The Larry Sanders Show. He remained on L.A. Law
for the entire run of the show, until it ended in 1994. He played the lead role in the two-season, NASA-themed series The Cape'' in 1996–97. Bernsen appeared with British actor
Bruce Payne in the films
Kounterfeit and
Aurora: Operation Intercept. He starred as the title character, Dr. Alan Feinstone, in the horror film
The Dentist and its sequel. Bernsen was also cast as
prima donna third baseman Roger Dorn in the sports comedy
Major League and appeared in both of the film's sequels. Bernsen portrayed
John Durant on
General Hospital from September 2004 until the character was murdered in May 2006. Bernsen played Jack Sherwood on
Cuts, appeared twice on
Celebrity Mole, and played a lawyer on
Boston Legal. He appeared as another Q on
Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also had a recurring role as Captain Owen Sebring on the military drama He also appeared as a guest star in one episode of
Switched at Birth, the
ABC Family television series. Bernsen currently appears as Kyle Nevin on the television series
The Resident.
Producing at the
Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, August 1990 Bernsen was president and co-owner of
Public Media Works, a
new media company that develops entertainment for targeted
fan bases. He directed and starred in
Carpool Guy, the company's first film; it was targeted at
soap opera fans and released on DVD in 2005. Bernsen then went on to form Team Cherokee Productions. According to the book
One Red Paperclip, in June 2006, Bernsen traded a role in the film
Donna on Demand to Kyle MacDonald for a snow globe of the band
Kiss. It was this role that MacDonald eventually traded for a two-story farmhouse. In recent years, Bernsen focused on stories that explore aspects of Christian faith in today's world and how that can contribute to, but also tends to divide our common humanity. His first such film was
Rust, released in 2010 by
Sony Pictures. Bernsen, along with producing partner Chris Aronoff, formed Home Theater Films, an independent
production company that develops, produces, and markets films and television shows.
25 Hill, the company's first title, was released in July 2012. This was followed by
3 Day Test (2012),
Beyond the Heavens (2013), and
Life with Dog (2017). Their film
Mary 4 Mayor was due out in the fall of 2020.
Writing In October 2015, the Pelican Book Group released Bernsen's debut novel. The book,
Rust: the Novel, is an adaptation of Bernsen's 2010 feature film,
Rust, in which he played the main character and served as writer and director. Bernsen and his wife, Amanda Pays, have co-authored two books,
Change Houses, Not Spouses and
Open House: Reinventing Space for Simple Living, a coffee table book featuring remodeling and design ideas they have learned from remodeling their own homes. == Personal life ==