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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-11-14 (103 years old)

Place of Birth

Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Brian Keith

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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Known For

Acting

2004

1999

Follow Your Heart as Roddy Thompson

1997

The Second Civil War as General Buford
Walking Thunder as Narrator
Rough Riders as President William McKinley

1996

Pacific Blue as Mac McNamara

1995

Lightning as Tappan

1994

Spider-Man as Uncle Ben (voice)
Touched by an Angel as Leonard Pound
Burke's Law as Norman Hope

1993

Wind Dancer as Truman Richards
Walker, Texas Ranger as Del Forman

1991

Walter & Emily as Walter Collins

1989

Welcome Home as Harry Robins
Lady in a Corner as David Henderson
Heartland as B.L. McCutcheon

1988

Young Guns as Buckshot Roberts
After the Rain as Byron Monroe

1987

Death Before Dishonor as Col. Halloran
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory as Colonel Davy Crockett

1986

The B.R.A.T. Patrol as General Newmeyer

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Caleb McCallum

1983

Hardcastle and McCormick as Milton Hardcastle

1982

Cry for the Strangers as Chief Whalen
World War III as Secretary General Gorny

1981

1980

The Mountain Men as Henry Frapp
The Silent Lovers as Mauritz Stiller
Power as Charles Kandell

1979

Meteor as Dr. Dubov
The Seekers as Elijah Weatherby
The Chisholms as Andrew Blake

1978

Hooper as Jocko Doyle
Centennial as Sheriff Axel Dumire

1977

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
How the West Was Won as General Stonecipher

1976

Nickelodeon as H.H. Cobb
The Loneliest Runner as Arnold Curtis
The Quest as Tank Logan
Joe Panther as Capt. Harper
The Quest as Tank Logan

1975

The Wind and the Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
Archer as Lew Archer

1974

The Yakuza as George Tanner
The Zoo Gang as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday

1972

The Bull of the West as Johnny Wade
Second Chance as Geoff Smith
The Brian Keith Show as Dr. Sean Jamison

1971

Scandalous John as John McCanless
Something Big as Col. Morgan

1970

The McKenzie Break as Captain Jack Connor
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? as Officer Michael M. Nace

1969

Gaily, Gaily as Francis Sullivan

1968

With Six You Get Eggroll as Jake Iverson

1967

Reflections in a Golden Eye as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

1966

Nevada Smith as Jonas Cord
The Rare Breed as Alexander Bowen
Way... Way Out as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
Family Affair as Bill Davis

1965

The Hallelujah Trail as Frank Wallingham
Those Calloways as Cam Calloway

1964

A Tiger Walks as Sheriff Pete Williams
The Tenderfoot as Mose Carson
The Pleasure Seekers as Paul Barton
Bristle Face as Lue Swank
Profiles in Courage as Thomas Hart Benton

1963

Savage Sam as Uncle Beck Coates
The Raiders as McElroy
Johnny Shiloh as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
The Great Adventure as Henry Bergh
Kraft Suspense Theatre as Andy Bastian
The Fugitive as Edward Welles

1962

Moon Pilot as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
The Virginian as Johnny Wade

1961

The Parent Trap as Mitch Evers
Dr. Kildare as Alfred Freely

1960

Ten Who Dared as William Dunn
The Westerner as Dave Blassingame

1959

The Young Philadelphians as Mike Flanagan
Rawhide as Tod Macauley
The Untouchables as Jim Martinson

1958

Violent Road as Mitch Barton
Fort Dobbs as Clett
Sierra Baron as Jack McCrackin
Desert Hell as Capt. Robert Edwards
Villa!! as Bill Harmon
77 Sunset Strip as Sgt. Patrick Cohan

1957

Run of the Arrow as Captain Clark
Chicago Confidential as Jim Fremont
Dino as Larry Sheridan
Hell Canyon Outlaws as Happy Waters

1956

Nightfall as John
Storm Center as Paul Duncan

1955

The Violent Men as Cole Wilkison
Tight Spot as Vince Striker
Crusader as Matt Anders
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Herbert Morrison

1954

Jivaro as Tony
Alaska Seas as Jim Kimmerly
The Bamboo Prison as Cpl. Brady
Climax! as Sam Pryce
The Wonderful World of Disney as Shadrach O'Reilly
The Wonderful World of Disney as Sergeant Gabe Trotter
Studio 57 as Dan

1953

Arrowhead as Capt. Bill North

1952

1951

Fourteen Hours as Extra (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prosecuting Attorney

1950

Lux Video Theatre as David Sutton

1949

Suspense as Johnny
Suspense as Lt. Jim Connor
Suspense as Idaho
Suspense as Kip Caley

1947

Boomerang! as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

1940

Knute Rockne All American as Student at Train Station (uncredited)

Directing

1972