Brian Keith

ActorDirector Nov 14 (died age 75) Bayonne, New Jersey, USA 1940–2004 (64 year career)

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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 1960…

Known For

Film

Young Guns

Buckshot Roberts

Film

The Parent Trap

Mitch Evers

Film

The Yakuza

George Tanner

Film

Nevada Smith

Jonas Cord

Film

The Wind and the Lion

Theodore Roosevelt

Film

Nightfall

John

Film

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

Film

Boomerang!

Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (145)

Movies (90)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

Follow Your Heart

as Roddy Thompson

The Second Civil War

as General Buford

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996

as Cardinal

4.8

Picture Windows: Lightning

1995

as Tappan

2.0

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

1995

as 'Noble Hart' / Self

4.9

Walking Thunder

1995

as Narrator

6.1

The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.

as Pete Morgan

Wind Dancer

as Truman Richards

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

as The Westerner

Welcome Home

as Harry Robins

Lady in a Corner

as David Henderson

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

as Frank Wellman Sr.

Young Guns

as Buckshot Roberts

After the Rain

as Byron Monroe

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

1987

as Colonel Davy Crockett

6.2

Death Before Dishonor

as Col. Halloran

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

as General Newmeyer

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

1986

as Self

6.0

Cry for the Strangers

as Chief Whalen

Sharky's Machine

as Papa

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

1981

as Police Chief Baxter

5.2

All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

as Self

The Silent Lovers

as Mauritz Stiller

The Mountain Men

as Henry Frapp

Power

as Charles Kandell

The Seekers

as Elijah Weatherby

Meteor

as Dr. Dubov

Hooper

as Jocko Doyle

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

1977

as Joe Quinlan

8.2

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977

as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney

Nickelodeon

as H.H. Cobb

The Quest

as Tank Logan

The Loneliest Runner

as Arnold Curtis

Joe Panther

as Capt. Harper

The Wind and the Lion

1975

as Theodore Roosevelt

6.5

The Lion Roars Again

1975

as Self

The Yakuza

as George Tanner

Second Chance

as Geoff Smith

The Bull of the West

as Johnny Wade

Something Big

as Col. Morgan

Scandalous John

as John McCanless

The McKenzie Break

as Captain Jack Connor

5.8

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

1970

as Officer Michael M. Nace

5.0

Krakatoa, East of Java

as Connerly

Gaily, Gaily

as Francis Sullivan

With Six You Get Eggroll

1968

as Jake Iverson

6.3

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967

as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

6.4

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1966

as Police Chief Link Mattocks

Nevada Smith

as Jonas Cord

The Rare Breed

as Alexander Bowen

The Tenderfoot

as Mose Carson

Way... Way Out

1966

as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby

The Hallelujah Trail

as Frank Wallingham

Johnny Shiloh

as Sgt. Gabe Trotter

Bristle Face

as Lue Swank

The Pleasure Seekers

as Paul Barton

Those Calloways

as Cam Calloway

A Tiger Walks

as Sheriff Pete Williams

Savage Sam

as Uncle Beck Coates

The Raiders

as McElroy

Moon Pilot

as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

5.4

The Parent Trap

1961

as Mitch Evers

7.0

The Deadly Companions

as Yellowleg

Ten Who Dared

as William Dunn

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

1960

The Young Philadelphians

as Mike Flanagan

Violent Road

as Mitch Barton

Fort Dobbs

as Clett

Sierra Baron

as Jack McCrackin

Villa!!

as Bill Harmon

Desert Hell

1958

as Capt. Robert Edwards

Dino

as Larry Sheridan

Chicago Confidential

as Jim Fremont

Hell Canyon Outlaws

as Happy Waters

Run of the Arrow

1957

as Captain Clark

6.0

Appointment with a Shadow

as Lt. Spencer

Nightfall

as John

Storm Center

as Paul Duncan

The Violent Men

as Cole Wilkison

5 Against the House

as Brick

Tight Spot

as Vince Striker

Jivaro

as Tony

Alaska Seas

as Jim Kimmerly

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!

1954

as Mike Hammer

The Bamboo Prison

as Cpl. Brady

Arrowhead

as Capt. Bill North

Fourteen Hours

as Extra (uncredited)

7.2

Boomerang!

1947

as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

7.0

Knute Rockne All American

1940

as Student at Train Station (uncredited)

6.1

Television (55)

Rough Riders

1997

as President William McKinley

Pacific Blue

as Mac McNamara

Cybill

as Arthur Minnow

Spider-Man

as Uncle Ben (voice)

Duckman

as Duckman's Father (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Leonard Pound

Burke's Law

as Norman Hope

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Mullibok

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Del Forman

The Commish

Walter & Emily

as Walter Collins

Heartland

as B.L. McCutcheon

Pursuit of Happiness

Murder, She Wrote

as Caleb McCallum

Hardcastle and McCormick

1983

as Milton Hardcastle

6.4

World War III

1982

as Secretary General Gorny

The Chisholms

as Andrew Blake

The Seekers

as Elijah Weatherby

Centennial

1978

as Sheriff Axel Dumire

7.7

How the West Was Won

1977

as General Stonecipher

The Quest

as Tank Logan

Archer

as Lew Archer

The Zoo Gang

as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday

7.0

The Brian Keith Show

1972

as Dr. Sean Jamison

5.0

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

as Self

Family Affair

as Bill Davis

Profiles in Courage

as Thomas Hart Benton

5.0

The Fugitive

1963

as Edward Welles

7.2

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

as Andy Bastian

5.3

The Great Adventure

1963

as Henry Bergh

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jim Mallory

The Virginian

as Johnny Wade

Dr. Kildare

as Alfred Freely

Target: The Corruptors!

1961

3.5

The Wonderful World of Disney

Outlaws

The Westerner

as Dave Blassingame

Rawhide

as Tod Macauley

The Untouchables

as Jim Martinson

Laramie

77 Sunset Strip

as Sgt. Patrick Cohan

6.7

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as Dave Blassingame

6.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Arnold Shawn

Crusader

as Matt Anders

Climax!

as Sam Pryce

Studio 57

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Shadrach O'Reilly

7.8

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

1953

as Joe Kelly

7.0

The Ford Television Theatre

as Mano

Tales of Tomorrow

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Prosecuting Attorney

8.6

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Harry

Lux Video Theatre

as Happy

Suspense

as Johnny

Crew (1)

Television (1)

The Brian Keith Show

1972

Director

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