He won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns in 1984 and 1987.
He has had roles in many theatrical productions, including Ulysses in Nighttown (1974), The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977), Prelude to a Kiss (1990), Picnic (1994), Proof (2000), Romance (2005), Festen (2006), and Harvey (2012).
[1] He played a police sergeant in Live Like Pigs and Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, both produced by the Theater Company of Boston.
[4] Bryggman was cast as Dr. John Dixon on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, first airing on July 18, 1969.
[4] In 1974, he had multiple roles in the Broadway play Ulysses in Nighttown, directed by Burgess Meredith and co-starring Zero Mostel.
[7] In February 1977, Bryggman played Frank Schaeffer in Marco Polo Sings a Solo at The Public Theater, co-starring with Madeline Kahn.
[11] He played Kress in a Broadway revival of The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, co-starring with Al Pacino.
[14] He was cast as Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby in a Broadway revival of Richard III, co-starring again with Al Pacino.
[17] In 1981, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns.
[19] For his work on As the World Turns, he received another Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1982.
[20] Bryggman played Stacy in the comedy film Hanky Panky (1982), directed by Sidney Poitier and co-starring with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.
[22] In 1984, Bryggman won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns.
[26] Bryggman received another Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for his work on As the World Turns.
[28] He was nominated again for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns.
[30] In 1987, Bryggman won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on ATWT.
[34] In 1988 and 1989, he received Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work on As the World Turns.
[1] Bryggman was cast as Howard Bevans in the original Broadway production of Picnic, co-starring with Ashley Judd and Kyle Chandler.
[46] He appeared as Arthur Cobb in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance, co-starring with Bruce Willis.
[47] Bryggman played twins Harry and Alfred Baker in New England at the Manhattan Theatre Club in November 1995.
[61] In 2001, he also appeared as Troy Folger in the action film Spy Game, co-starring with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.
[68] In 2005, Bryggman starred as the Judge in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway and Los Angeles productions of the David Mamet farce Romance.
[81] Beginning on August 27, 2010, Bryggman returned to ATWT for 12 of the final 16 episodes, as the show finished its run on September 17, 2010.
For these final episodes of the series, it was explained that Dixon had been working at Johns Hopkins for an undisclosed period of time, but had been asked by Dr. Reid Oliver to return to Oakdale Memorial to consult on the ailing Christopher Hughes.
[82][8] In November 2010, Bryggman starred in Harold Pinter's The Collection and A Kind of Alaska at the Classic Stage Company.
[85] Bryggman played Judge Omar Gaffney in a Broadway revival of Harvey, co-starring with Jim Parsons.
[89] In December 2013, he joined a play reading of Alexander Ostrovsky's Too Clever By Half, co-starring with Jonathan Groff and Grace Gummer.