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Bill Brochtrup

Bill Brochtrup

Known For Acting
Birthday Mar 07, 1963 (62)
Birthplace Inglewood, California, USA
Popularity 0.8 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bill Brochtrup (born March 7, 1963) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is known for playing "PAA John Irvin", the gay administrative aide, on NYPD Blue. Brochtrup was born in Inglewood, California and raised in Tacoma, Washington, attending ... New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant's Snakebit (Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse), South Coast Repertory (Noises Off, Taking Steps, The Real Thing), The Antaeus Company (Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Sinan Unel's Pera Palas), Black Dahlia Theatre (Jonathan Tolins' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District, both directed by Matt Shakman), The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (Bach at Leipzig, Small Tragedy), L.A. Theatre Works (The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), and Pasadena Playhouse (If Memory Serves). He can be seen in the feature films Life as We Know It, He's Just Not That Into You, Duck, Ravenous, Man of the Year, and Space Marines. He has appeared on television shows as varied as Dexter, Without a Trace, The Wild Thornberrys (as the voice of a dolphin), and Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown. Brochtrup is a frequent guest host of the PBS newsmagazine In The Life, and has been a series regular on three Steven Bochco shows, CBS sitcom Public Morals, ABC drama Total Security, and seven seasons on NYPD Blue. He has written for Out magazine and the best-selling book of essays I Love You, Mom!, told his original stories at Un-Cabaret and numerous Spoken Word events, hosted AIDS Walks across the country, supports animal rescue organizations like the SPCA and has traveled the Persian Gulf, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Germany, Japan, Bosnia and Kosovo meeting servicemen and women during Handshake Tours for the USO and Armed Forces Entertainment. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Brochtrup, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

Hypnotized

Hypnotized

2015

as Kyle

Life As We Know It

Life As We Know It

2010

as Gary

Duck

Duck

2005

as Leopold

Ravenous

Ravenous

1999

as Lindus

Two Voices

Two Voices

1997

as David Ivey

Not Again!

Not Again!

1996

as Glen

Space Marines

Space Marines

1996

as Hacker

Betrayed: A Story of Three Women

Betrayed: A Story of Three Women

1995

as Patrick McGraw

Man of the Year

Man of the Year

1995

as Pledge Cartwright

The Arrival

The Arrival

1991

as Ace

Rockula

Rockula

1990

as Roadie

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989

as Hairdresser

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

NYPD Blue

as John Irvin

Episodes: 129

First Aired: Sep 21, 1993

Public Morals

as John Irvin

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Oct 30, 1996

Shameless

as Hal

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jan 09, 2011

Major Crimes

as Dr. Joe Bowman

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 13, 2012

After Forever

as Frank

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 24, 2018

Murder, She Wrote

as Gene Gains

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Without a Trace

as Edgar

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 2002

Dharma & Greg

as Steve

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1997

ALF

as Charlie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 1986

Diagnosis: Murder

as Paramedic

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 29, 1993

Tour of Duty

as Brockman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1987

The Wild Thornberrys

as Colin (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 01, 1998

Dexter

as Funeral Director

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 2006

Murder, She Wrote

as Leo Gunderson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Birds of a Feather

as Tour Guide

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1989

Total Security

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 27, 1997

TV Revolution

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 23, 2004

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