Brett Hudson

Brett Stuart Patrick Hudson (born January 18, 1953) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, producer and actor. He was the youngest member of the musical group the Hudson Brothers, which was formed by his older brothers, Mark and Bill, in 1965. He is now a TV producer and writer.

Early life Hudson was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, the youngest of three boys (Mark and Bill are his two elder brothers) born to Eleanor (née Salerno) and William Louis Hudson. His mother was Italian American (his maternal grandfather came from Carlentini, Province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy). He and his brothers were nephews of actor Keenan Wynn. Hudson's father walked out on the family when he was six, He was raised Roman Catholic. with Burt Kearns. He has produced many television shows including All the Presidents' Movies with Martin Sheen for Bravo, The Secret History of Rock 'N' Roll for Court TV hosted by Gene Simmons of Kiss as well as Fox TV's A Current Affair. He also co-wrote and produced the Burt Reynolds movie Cloud 9. In 2012, Hudson co-produced Hansel & Gretel Get Baked released theatrically by Tribeca Film. He previewed his movie The Chris Montez Story with Chris Montez at The Fest for Beatles Fans convention held March 2010 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

He can be heard singing background on an odd assortment of CDs including Alice Cooper's 1994 The Last Temptation and Ringo Starr's 1999 I Wanna Be Santa Claus. He is also a trumpet player.

Honors and awards Hudson received the 2009 Las Vegas Film Festival's Golden Ace Award in the Documentary Feature category for The Seventh Python.

Personal life Hudson married Lavinia Lang in 1992.

He was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer in 2007 and, after receiving many conventional as well as alternative cancer treatments, has been in remission since 2009. He is the uncle of singer/songwriter Sarah Hudson, actress Kate Hudson of Almost Famous and actor Oliver Hudson of Splitting Up Together.

Filmography Producing and directing Year Title Notes 1988 Offshore Television Television series; producer 2001 Adults Only: The Secret History of the Other Hollywood Miniseries; director and producer 2001 The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll with Gene Simmons Television film; producer 2002 All the Presidents' Movies Television documentary; director and producer 2003 My First Time Television series; executive producer 2005 A Current Affair Television series; producer 2006 Cloud 9 Producer 2007 Basketball Man Documentary; producer 2008 The Seventh Python Documentary; producer 2009 All the Presidents' Movies: The Movie Documentary; producer 2011 What The Television series; executive producer 2013 Hansel & Gretel Get Baked Producer 2014 The Chris Montez Story Documentary; producer

Acting Year Title Role Notes 1978 Zero to Sixty Harry 1978 The Millionaire Harold Reardon Television film 1979 Bonkers! Himself 1 episode 1980 The Love Boat Ed Corey 1 episode 1983 Hysterical Fritz 1994 Chantmania: The Benzedrine Monks of Santo Damonica Ray Nosseris 2006 Cloud 9 Blind man Uncredited