Brian Keith

from Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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Biography

Brian Keith (November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his four decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the 1961 Disney family film The Parent Trap, the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, and the 1975 adventure saga The Wind and the Lion, in which he portrayed Theodore Roosevelt.

On television, two of his best known roles were that of a widowed uncle turned bachelor: Bill Davis, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair, and a tough judge in the 1980s drama Hardcastle and McCormick.

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Timeline

2004Aged 83

  • Poster for Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

1999Aged 78

  • Poster for Follow Your Heart

    Roddy Thompson

1997Aged 76

  • Poster for The Second Civil War

    General Buford

1996Aged 75

  • Poster for Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

    Cardinal

1995Aged 74

  • Poster for Walking Thunder

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.

    Pete Morgan

  • Poster for Picture Windows: Lightning

    Tappan

  • Poster for National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

    'Noble Hart' / Self

1993Aged 72

  • Poster for Wind Dancer

    Truman Richards

1991Aged 70

  • Poster for The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

    The Westerner

1989Aged 68

  • Poster for Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

    Frank Wellman Sr.

  • Poster for Welcome Home

    Harry Robins

  • Poster for Lady in a Corner

    David Henderson

1988Aged 67

  • Poster for Young Guns

    Buckshot Roberts

  • Poster for The Passage

    Byron Monroe

1987Aged 66

  • Poster for Death Before Dishonor

    Col. Halloran

  • Poster for The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

    Colonel Davy Crockett

1986Aged 65

1982Aged 61

  • Poster for Cry for the Strangers

    Chief Whalen

1981Aged 60

1980Aged 59

  • Poster for The Silent Lovers

    Mauritz Stiller

  • Poster for The Mountain Men

    Henry Frapp

1979Aged 58

  • Poster for Meteor

    Dr. Dubov

1978Aged 57

  • Poster for Hooper

    Jocko Doyle

1977Aged 56

  • Poster for In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

    Joe Quinlan

  • Poster for The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

    Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney

1976Aged 55

  • Poster for The Quest

    Tank Logan

  • Joe Panther

    Capt. Harper

  • Poster for The Loneliest Runner

    Arnold Curtis

  • Poster for Nickelodeon

    H.H. Cobb

1975Aged 54

1974Aged 53

  • Poster for The Yakuza

    George Tanner

1972Aged 51

  • Poster for Second Chance

    Geoff Smith

  • Poster for The Bull of the West

    Johnny Wade

1971Aged 50

  • Poster for Scandalous John

    John McCanless

  • Poster for Something Big

    Col. Morgan

1970Aged 49

  • Poster for Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

    Officer Michael M. Nace

  • Poster for The McKenzie Break

    Captain Jack Connor

1969Aged 48

  • Poster for Krakatoa, East of Java

    Connerly

  • Poster for Gaily, Gaily

    Francis Sullivan

1968Aged 47

  • Poster for With Six You Get Eggroll

    Jake Iverson

1967Aged 46

  • Poster for Reflections in a Golden Eye

    Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

1966Aged 45

  • Poster for The Rare Breed

    Alexander Bowen

  • Poster for The Tenderfoot

    Mose Carson

  • Poster for The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

    Police Chief Link Mattocks

  • Poster for Nevada Smith

    Jonas Cord

  • Poster for Way... Way Out

    Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby

1965Aged 44

  • Poster for The Hallelujah Trail

    Frank Wallingham

  • Poster for Johnny Shiloh

    Sgt. Gabe Trotter

1964Aged 43

  • Poster for Bristle Face

    Lue Swank

  • Poster for A Tiger Walks

    Sheriff Pete Williams

  • Poster for Those Calloways

    Cam Calloway

  • Poster for The Pleasure Seekers

    Paul Barton

1963Aged 42

  • Poster for Savage Sam

    Uncle Beck Coates

  • Poster for The Raiders

    McElroy

1962Aged 41

  • Poster for Moon Pilot

    Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

1961Aged 40

  • Poster for The Parent Trap

    Mitch Evers

  • Poster for The Deadly Companions

    Yellowleg

1960Aged 39

  • Poster for Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Ten Who Dared

    William Dunn

1959Aged 38

  • Poster for The Young Philadelphians

    Mike Flanagan

1958Aged 37

  • Poster for Fort Dobbs

    Clett

  • Poster for Violent Road

    Mitch Barton

  • Poster for Desert Hell

    Capt. Robert Edwards

  • Poster for Sierra Baron

    Jack McCrackin

  • Poster for Villa!!

    Bill Harmon

1957Aged 36

  • Poster for Dino

    Larry Sheridan

  • Poster for Chicago Confidential

    Jim Fremont

  • Poster for Appointment with a Shadow

    Lt. Spencer

  • Poster for Run of the Arrow

    Captain Clark

  • Poster for Hell Canyon Outlaws

    Happy Waters

1956Aged 35

  • Poster for Storm Center

    Paul Duncan

  • Poster for Nightfall

    John

1955Aged 34

  • Poster for The Violent Men

    Cole Wilkison

  • Poster for Tight Spot

    Vince Striker

  • Poster for 5 Against the House

    Brick

1954Aged 33

  • Poster for Alaska Seas

    Jim Kimmerly

  • Poster for Jivaro

    Tony

  • Poster for The Bamboo Prison

    Cpl. Brady

  • Poster for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!

    Mike Hammer

1953Aged 32

  • Poster for Arrowhead

    Capt. Bill North

1951Aged 30

  • Poster for Fourteen Hours

    Extra (uncredited)

1947Aged 26

  • Poster for Boomerang!

    Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

1940Aged 19

  • Poster for Knute Rockne All American

    Student at Train Station (uncredited)

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