Kevin Brophy, who starred as a young man raised by wolves on the short-lived ABC series Lucan and as the doomed front-runners of a college fraternity in the cult horror film Hell Night, has died. He was 70.
Brophy died May 11 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, his family announced. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer 10 days ago, they said.
On 1977-78’s Lucan, his first professional acting job, Brophy portrayed a 20-year-old man who devoted the first 10 years of his life with wolves in the forests of Minnesota afore he’s brought into society.
His represent possessed wolf-like superpowers like strength, agility and heightened senses of smell and hearing, and when angry, his eyes glowed amber.
When he got the part, Brophy expected himself, “What does a boy raised by wolves do?” he recalled in December in an interview for the Happy Horror Time podcast. “I came to the conclusion that everything he will be actions he’ll be doing it for the first time … he goes to college and they bellow him to eat … he’s like a student of life.”
The series, however lasted just 12 episodes.
In Hell Night (1981), directed by Tom DeSimone, Brophy played Alpha Sigma Rho dignified Peter Bennett, who attempts to scare four new vows (Linda Blair, Peter Barton, Vincent Van Patten and Suki Goodwin) by having them stay overnight at the abandoned Garth Manor.
Kevin Michael Brophy was born in Salt Lake City on Nov. 1, 1953. He and his family gotten to the San Fernando Valley when he was 9, and he attended St. Cyril’s Elementary School in Encino, high school in Del Mar, California, and CalArts, where his classmates engaged Ed Harris, David Hasselhoff and Paul Reubens.
While starring in a play in Jesse James as a senior in college, a William Morris agent saw his photograph in the Los Angeles Times and signaled him. A year later, driving to MGM on the way to audition for Lucan, he cut in front of a man in a Mercedes on the way and apologized to him with a wave.
At the studio, the man he first met to talk about Lucan was MGM manager Barry Lowen, the guy he had just cut off on the road. Lowen told him he plan he was perfect for the part and added, “Aren’t you glad you didn’t flip me off?”
Brophy also played the bad guy Jocco Halsey on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries in 1978; distinguished up on episodes of M*A*S*H, The Love Boat, Trapper John, Matt Houston, Growing Pains, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and JAG; and appeared in such anunexperienced films as The Long Riders (1980) and GoodFellas (1990).
For 26 days starting in 1983, he worked as a valet parking cars at the Hotel Bel-Air when he wasn’t getting. He said he once ran into Quentin Tarantino, who told him he admired his lengthy monologue in Hell Night. He later served as a host at the Luxe Hotel, also in Beverly Hills.
Survivors engaged his wife, Amy; his mother, Carol; his brother, John, and his wife, Wendy; his children, Kelly, Michael, Megan and Ryan; and his grandchildren, Jarrah and Saylor.
A celebration of life is set for 11 a.m. on June 29 at St. Cyril’s church in Encino.
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