Brian McNamara

Q: Has Brian McNamara won any awards?

While Brian McNamara has not won major awards like Oscars, he has received recognition for his performances in television, particularly in 'China Beach'.

Q: What was Brian McNamara's first film?

Brian McNamara made his film debut in 'The Other Side of the Mountain' in 1975, which marked the beginning of his acting career.

Q: What are some highlights of Brian McNamara's career?

Brian McNamara's career highlights include starring in popular series like 'China Beach' and films like 'A Deadly Threat to My Family', showcasing his diverse acting skills.

Q: What is Brian McNamara's net worth?

Brian McNamara's estimated net worth is around $1 million, reflecting his work in film and television over the years.

Q: Did Brian McNamara work in theater?

Yes, Brian McNamara has experience in theater, having performed in various stage productions before transitioning fully to film and television.

Q: What genres does Brian McNamara typically act in?

Brian McNamara is known for his work in drama and action genres, often portraying complex characters that resonate with audiences.

Q: Is Brian McNamara involved in any charitable work?

Brian McNamara has participated in various charitable events and causes, supporting organizations that focus on health and education.

Known for

Short Circuit (1986)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

1986 / Comedy, Family / 98 min

When one of an experimental range of military robots is hit by lightning, it is given consciousness and escapes from the military and befriends...

Name

Brian McNamara

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

27 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Kathy McNamara (1990–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

John McNamara, Mary McNamara

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie Inheritance Estranged sisters Lucy and Paige reunite to bury their father, becoming entangled in the complicated web of their past as...	Greg	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2022	Movie My Southern Family Christmas Under the guise of a journalist, Campbell has a chance to get to know her biological father for the first...	Gary Wallace	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	Movie Christmas in Louisiana The Winter Family is Christmas royalty in New Iberia, Louisiana, and Sarah Winter, a successful lawyer and former Miss Christmas,...	Mark	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Hometown Christmas Back in Louisiana for Christmas, Noelle Collins has big plans to resurrect the town’s live nativity, a beloved tradition that...	Dr. Peter Collins	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2018	TV Magnum P.I. Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL, returns home from Afghanistan and applies his military skills to become a private...	Raymond Lockhart	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2018	Movie The Wedding Do Over Wedding planner Abby (Nicole Gale Anderson) specializes in fixing weddings that went wrong, but when she is forced to work...	Bill Anderson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2016	TV Designated Survivor Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the...	Dave Rhodes	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2015	TV Stitchers A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased,...	James Miller	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego...	Brett Anderson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	TV Scorpion Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats...	David Ayres	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2012	TV Perception Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge...	Detective Gerald Rix	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	Movie Changing Hearts A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current...	Henry Reed	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2011	TV Grimm After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he...	Abel Mahario	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2011	TV Friends with Benefits Revolving around a group of twentysomething singles as they navigate the difficult, sometimes rewarding, often confusing world of dating. Loyal...	Dr. Everett Lonsdale	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	TV Franklin & Bash When they're not hanging out at their favorite hot dog stand pontificating on what they'd go through to enjoy a...	Tom Parker	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	TV Hawaii Five-0 Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to...	Construction Foreman	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2009	TV NCIS: Los Angeles The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service...	Commander Jason Rehme	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV Castle After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the...	Mike Sampson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	TV The Mentalist Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to...	Deke Hutton	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2008	Movie The Secret Lives of Second Wives Lynn Hughes finds that marriage the second time around is far from idyllic when the ex wife and her children...	Jack Hughes	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	Movie Hallowed Ground After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier...	Sheriff O'Connor	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2007	Movie I Know Who Killed Me An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming, a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by...	Fred Toland	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2007	TV Army Wives Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their...	Michael Holden	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	TV Andy Barker, P.I. Certified public accountant Andy Barker reluctantly becomes a private investigator after he is mistaken for the former office tenant, who...	Dale	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2007	Movie The Go-Getter When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the...	Book On Tape	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Lost Signal New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning...	Carl Nasland	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2006	Movie The Legend of Tillamook's Gold Julie, a lonely fourteen year old girl, moves to Manzanita, an Oregon seaside town, from Los Angeles after her writer...	Robert Kimbell	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	TV Ghost Whisperer Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense...	Douglas Marks	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2005	TV Criminal Minds An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike...	Bruce Owen	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2005	TV Close to Home	Joe Gibson	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2005	TV Bones Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains...	Eric Neilbling	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2005	TV The Inside The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine...	Roger Comack	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2005	TV Eyes Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management...	Brad Harper	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	TV The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Meet Zack and Cody, 11 year-old identical twins and the newest residents of Boston's swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a...	Serge	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2004	Movie Paparazzi A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay...	Bo's Agent	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2004	TV Rescue Me The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin....	Passing Fireman	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2004	Movie Caught in the Act After de-bunking her philandering spouse's deceptions, Jodie Colter accidentally stumbles onto the murder case of a former homecoming queen. She...	Dan Robertson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	TV NCIS From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any...	Noah Sykes	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2003	TV The O.C. Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give...	Carson Ward	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2002	TV CSI: Miami The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their...	Steven Cambridge	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2002	TV Monk Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve...	Kyle Brooks	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2001	Movie Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy A psychologically disturbed solider is forced to come out of retirement to find his brother who has disappeared in the...	Lt. James Doyle	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2000	Movie A Diva's Christmas Carol In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she...	Bob Cratchett	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	TV CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable...	Steven Anderson	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2000	TV Manhattan, AZ Manhattan, AZ is a short-lived Comedy off-beat television show that aired on the USA Network during the Summer of 2000....	Daniel Henderson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2000	Movie The Ghost of Spoon River A big-city lawyer is called home to defend a local man accused of murder. Based on the Spoon River Anthology	Jesse Hanson	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1999	TV Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV....	D.A. Baseer	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Where the Truth Lies Courtroom drama where an ambitious but inexperienced young lawyer defends a deaf political campaign manager accused of murder. But is...	Billy Morgan	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	TV Mercy Point Mercy Point is an American science fiction series that ran from the fall of 1998 to the midsummer of 1999...	Dr. Caleb 'C.J.' Jurado	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	TV V.I.P. While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns...	Andrew D Welles	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1998	TV Fantasy Island Mr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their wildest dreams and...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1998	TV Four Corners In a growing southwestern community where old-fashioned values are at odds with changing times, Amanda Wyatt is forced to run...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1997	Movie Out of Nowhere After being run off the road by two fleeing car thieves, an amnesiac starts to put her life back together,...	Rob Harper	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	Movie Seduction in a Small Town A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children....	Paul Jenks	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	TV Early Edition Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting...	Stan Stanford	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1996	TV Profiler Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on...	Thomas King	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	TV Suddenly Susan Susan Keane is a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer beginning to adjust to being single, who learns to be independent-minded,...	Cooper Elliott	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1996	TV Arli$$ A behind-the-scenes look at the glitzy, big-money world of professional sports following the eternally optimistic and endlessly resourceful L.A. sports...	Matt Miller	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Wiseguy Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside...	Jason	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1996	Movie Point Zero On the eve of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, two American spies are sent undercover to retrieve a list of...	Peter	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie A Case for Life To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story	Stan Porter	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	TV Savannah Follows the lives of three best friends--Reese, Peyton, and Lane--who grew up together in Savannah, Georgia. SAVANNAH was an American...	Terrence Goodson	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1995	TV JAG Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the...	Andrew Gale	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	TV Ned & Stacey A self-centered ad exec and a liberal journalist enter into a marriage of convenience. He's trying to boost his business...	Peter	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1995	TV Sliders In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a...	Dr. Dunhill / Inspector Reed	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1995	TV Hope and Gloria Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from March 9, 1995,...	Dale Hutton	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1995	TV Pig Sty Pig Sty is a sitcom that premiered on UPN on January 23, 1995 during the network's disastrous, low-rated first season....	Randy Fitzgerald	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	TV Star Trek: Voyager Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a...	William Chapman	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	Movie Without Warning A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and...	Mike Curtis	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	James Berrington	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	Capt. Greg Saunders	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV ER ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and...	Gil Brenner	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	TV Ellen Ellen works in a Los Angeles bookstore called Buy the Book and hangs around with her friends discussing lovers, work...	Jim	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1993	TV Diagnosis: Murder Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.	Chet Brooks	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1993	Movie Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.	Cal Kessler	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	Movie When the Party's Over Three women and a gay man in their 20s share a house in Los Angeles; try to find love and...	Taylor	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1992	Movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony...	Sam Wald	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1992	TV Mad About You Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in...	Doug	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	TV Melrose Place Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los...	Scott Daniels	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1992	Movie Honor Thy Mother Lieth Von Stein and his wife, Bonnie Von Stein are attacked while sleeping in their Smallwood home in North Carolina....	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1991	TV Homefront Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1991	Movie Mystery Date Tom McHugh quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a...	Craig McHugh	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1990	Movie Storm and Sorrow In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on...	John Marts	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Arachnophobia A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to...	Chris Collins	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	TV The Nutt House	Charles Nutt	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1989	Movie Tennessee Nights When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends...	Hewitt	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	TV Seinfeld A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in...	Wake up service man	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1988	Movie Police Story: Monster Manor Misfit policemen turn an old mansion into a party house and wind up part of a sting operation.	Officer Raymond Lebrix	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1988	TV Police Story An anthology series, aired in late 1988 as part of the 'ABC Monday Mystery Movie' lineup. The crime drama is...	Officer Raymond Lebrix	Not rated
1988	Movie Caddyshack II When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the...	Todd Young	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1988	Movie Earth Star Voyager: Part 2 In 2088, when the Earth is heavily polluted and the atmosphere is becoming unbreathable, title starship is launched to investigate...	Commander Jonathan Hays	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1988	TV Earth Star Voyager Earth Star Voyager is the name of a science fiction television movie shown on the Wonderful World of Disney in...	Jonathan Hays	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1988	Movie Earth Star Voyager	Jonathan Hays - Command Specialist	Not rated
1987	TV Billionaire Boys Club Billionaire Boys Club is a two-part TV movie that aired on NBC in 1987. It told the story of the...	Dean Karny	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1987	Movie Billionaire Boys Club The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an...	Dean Karny	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	Movie Sadie and Son It's a family affair when a 50-ish police officer is joined by her son on the force.	Nolie Rothman	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie In the Mood When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a...	George	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1987	Movie The Betty Ford Story This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.	Steve Ford	Not rated
1987	Movie On Fire Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two just...	Ritchie Leary	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1986	TV L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986,...	Matt Leonard	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1986	Movie Short Circuit After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes...	Frank	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1986	TV Matlock Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always...	Gary Adler	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	Movie The Flamingo Kid Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the...	Steve Dawkins	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1984	TV Murder, She Wrote An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.	Harry Neville	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	TV Murder, She Wrote An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.	Tom McCray	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	TV Murder, She Wrote An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.	Randall Sloan	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	Movie Mister Roberts Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts, who battles boredom...	Payne	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1982	TV St. Elsewhere St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May...	Michael Endicott	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1982	TV Family Ties Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest...	Greg	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1981	TV Hill Street Blues A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.	Unknown character	TMDB 7.6 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2006	Movie Lost Signal New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.2 / 10
1999	Movie Behind the Life of Chris Gaines To promote the release of his album Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks appeared as Chris...	Music Producer Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10

Inheritance

2024 / TMDB 8.5

My Southern Family Christmas

2022 / TMDB 6.5

Christmas in Louisiana

2019 / TMDB 6.6

Hometown Christmas

2018 / TMDB 6.1

The Wedding Do Over

2018 / TMDB 5.6

Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story

2015 / TMDB 6.1

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Short Circuit (1986)

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