Canadian actor Beau Kazer (born Beau Kayser) originated the role of Brock Reynolds on The Young and the Restless. He played the son of Katherine Chancellor on the long-running CBS daytime drama from 1974 to 1980. He continued to appear on and off from 1984 to 2013, when his character returned to Genoa City to attend Katherine’s funeral.

Kazer, who studied drama at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, also appeared in such programs as General Hospital, Hart to Hart and B.J. and the Bear.

In the 1976 feature film Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro's character Travis Bickle is shown kicking over a television set that is playing a scene from an episode of The Young and the Restless featuring Kazer as Brock. Kazer received a credit for the film, appropriately enough, as “Soap Opera Man.”

Kazer died December 30, 2014, in Thousand Oaks, California. He was 63.