Brian Keith
Biography
Son of character actor 'Robert Keith with his father.
Began acting in radio programs and on stage before World War II.
Joined the Marines and served as a machine gunner.
Returned to Broadway stage after the war and branched out into television and film.
Worked as an extra in several films before achieving speaking roles and subsequent stardom.
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- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Education
- Lincoln College· Oxford
- Place of birth
- Bayonne· New Jersey
- Birth date
- 14 November 1921
- Nationality
- American
- Air Medal
- His first son died in childhood. Daughter, Daisy Keith committed suicide 10 weeks before her fathers suicide, aged 27.
- Son of Robert Keith and Helena Shipman.
- Father, with Victoria Young , of Bobby and Daisy Keith.
- Buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.
- At the time of his death, Keith was suffering from emphysema and terminal lung cancer, as well as mourning the recent gunshot suicide of his 27-year-old daughter, Daisy Keith , ten weeks earlier. He committed suicide after he returned from a stay at a hospital.
- Plays the role of a real president of the United States in both of John Milius s films featuring Theodore Roosevelt. In The Wind and the Lion he co-starred as Roosevelt, himself.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- Was fluent in Russian.
- Before making his mark on screen, Keith acted in stock theater productions and on radio.
- His third wife Victoria Young co-starred with him on "The Brian Keith Show" , she played a nurse.
- Real talk.
- [on his popularity, while playing the forty-five something "Uncle Bill,Davis" on "Family Affair" (1966) ]: This is the type of show I,love, because it reminds me of what happiness I have with my wife and,our children.
- Then this thing came along. I read it.
- [on accepting the role as Hardcastle]: You learn to read a pilot script.
- I never gave a hoot, I just took what came along.
- I played a real nothing named Wally.
- [In 1969]: I hope to get some time off this spring for a vacation.
- [In 1968]: You have the responsibility to conduct yourself in the best,way you know how to do.
- The main thing is to live, if possible, where you feel comfortable.
- [on revisiting "The Westerner" (1960) for the first time in,1975]: It was fifteen years since I had seen it. I watched every one.
Movies
Play for Free
2020
A Song for Us
2020
Princess Cyd
2017
Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer.
No Expectations the Murder of Brian Jones
2016
Rolling Stone's founder member Brian Jones is murdered in his backyard swimming pool by Tom Keylock in July of 1969..
Never Came Back
2015
The Christmas Pearl
2015
Theodora age 93 struggles with her South Carolina family, described as "truculent knuckleheads.
Silver Case: Director's Cut
2015
The world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' (Eric Roberts) hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master'..
The Melancholy Doorman or: With Great Serotonin Levels Comes Great Responsibility
2015
With great serotonin levels comes great responsibility..
The Love Quadrangle
2014
Realizing that he's made a colossal mess, Mikey concocts lie after lie to restore things back to working order- but can he?
Finding America
2014
Finding America is a short narrative film about Desmond Manley, 18, who has just arrived from Jamaica and landed in Philadelphia on his way to find his family.
Silver Case
2012
In Tinseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' (Eric Roberts) hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways than one.
The Nefarious Octavarius
2012
A documentary that explores the personalities and dynamic that makes up the high octane, critically-acclaimed Chicago comedy group, Octavarius..
The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965
2012
A documentary on the Rolling Stones that was shot in 1965 on a two-stop tour of Ireland, just as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was becoming a worldwide sensation..
The Rolling Stones: LIVE!
2012
A compilation of classic and rare performances by the Rolling Stones from their earliest days to the present.
Surprise
2012
Matthew throws a surprise party for his girlfriend but confuses her little black book for her address book..
Pippa and Brian are Getting Married
2011
Brain Ormonde and Pippa O Connor are two of Ireland's best known celebrities from the world of TV presenting and fashion.
Nutcracker
2011
Knife crime is out of control and while the innocent are penalized and discriminated against, the guilty roam free..
Door to Door
2011
A pseudo door to door salesman goes to extreme measures to tailor his sales pitches to what he thinks people at each door want to hear, all in a desperate attempt to raise $100,000 for a surgery needed by his granddaughter.
Vampires in Venice
2009
Two private detectives try to find a missing girl who has been abducted by Vampires in Venice, California..
White Widow
2009
Salvation, Texas
2008
A father sees only one way to take away his daughter's pain: kill the man responsible.
Tween
2008
Thirteen-year-old Mari is sent home from Catholic school for performing a sexual act on the vice-principal's son.
Auto Recovery
2008
Auto Recovery is a heart warming story about three young men, Slim, Ralph and Cory who specialize in recovering high end, expensive and well protected autos that are hard to retrieve due to lack of payments..
Permit
2008
Taxi to the Dark Side
2007
Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.
The Merger
2007
This film hits a nerve for anyone who has ever fallen victim to outsourcing, corporate downsizing and corporate takeovers.
Deadly Rendezvous II: Dawn of Deceit
2007
Two years before the events that took place in Deadly Rendezvous, Jimmy and Tank are partners, on top of the crime world.
Bottoms Up
2006
Owen Peadman is a Minnesota bartender who arrives in Los Angeles to try to help his father raise money to save his small restaurant.
Broken Bridges
2006
Bo Price (Keith), a down-and-out country singer, has returned home for his brother's funeral following a military training accident.
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale
2006
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley.
You're Fayed
2005
The Meeting
2005
A man goes to meet his father for the first time, and gets entangled in a drama of anger, hurt, and loss..
Solomon's Requiem
2004
An unemployed man late on his rent payment, his dog and the girl he just met find themselves in the center of a zombie epidemic courtesy of a cultist religion which has placed a curse on a deceased former member who returns to life in the form of demonic zombie and spreads the curse to town..
Epoch: Evolution
2003
10 years since the the first Alien object called Torus arose, two more have risen.
The Rolling Stones: Just for the Record
2002
Just For The Record is a comprehensive documentary commemorating the first 40 years of the Rolling Stones, the famous British rock'n'roll band.
Epoch
2001
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal..
The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'
2001
Produced as part of the DVD release for 'Dressed to Kill', this documentary gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this thrilling murder mystery.
Out of the Cold
1999
An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice..
TV
Inlighten Films
2019
Sub Buds
2019
Don't Judge Me!
2016
A quirky divorcee confronts the ever present "judging eye" and decides its time to get back in the game.
Framework
2015
The first-ever furniture design competition series, Framework showcases the nation's best emerging furniture designers as they compete for a $100,000 cash prize and the opportunity for their work to be sold by a major manufacturer..
Brute Squad
2011
Shattered
2010
Ben Sullivan is a tough, smart homicide detective with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
Walter & Emily
1991
Walter and Emily Collins take care of their grandson Zach while their son Matt travels as a sportswriter.
Heartland
1989
Tom and Casey Stafford with their sons John and Gus and adopted daughter, Kim living on a farm in Nebraska have trouble making ends meet, and accepting the fact that Casey's father, is living with them..
West Country Tales
1982
West Country Tales was an early 1980s supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in by viewers in response to a BBC appeal.
Archer
1975
Lew Archer, a former policeman, is a private detective who is not above bending the law when trying to solve a case.
The Zoo Gang
1974
Four people who worked together during World War 2, were known as the Zoo Club because their code names were of animals.
The Brian Keith Show
1972
In its first season, father-daughter pediatricians, Doctors Sean and Anne Jamison, run a free clinic in Oahu, Hawaii.
Family Affair
1966
Bill Davis is a highly paid and successful engineer living in a large apartment in New York with his valet, Mr.
Friday Night
1963
The Westerner
1960
Laconic cowboy Dave Blasingame wanders the Wild West with his faithful dog Brown and the occasional companionship of pal Burgundy Smith..
Crusader
1955
In revenge for the Communist government in Poland having sent his mother to a concentration camp where she died, Matt Anders devotes himself to freeing others from totalitarian countries..
The Mask
1954
Books
Out of Control
Brian Cdmgmn 2601 Keith
Mississippian oolites and modern analogs
Brian D. Keith
Trenton Group (Aapg Studies in Geology)
Brian D. Keith
Where Worlds Abound
Brian Keith
Where Worlds Abound
Brian Keith
Born to Conquer
Brian Keith
Some aspects of greasy wool appraisal.
Brian Keith Abbott
From the Margins
Brian Keith Axel
Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production?
From the Margins
Brian Keith Axel
Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production?
From the Margins
Brian Keith Axel
The Nation's Tortured Body
Brian Keith Axel
In the nation's tortured body brian keith axel explores the formation of the sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality.
Nation's Tortured Body
Brian Keith Axel
The Nation's Tortured Body
Brian Keith Axel
In the nation’s tortured body brian keith axel explores the formation of the sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality.
Buying My First Home As A Military Veteran
Brian Keith Bailey
Walking a military veteran through the homebuying process, buying my home as a military veteran outlines the steps required in order to purchase a home using the va home loan process as well as other important information such as: *credit repair strategie.
Comments on his life & times
Brian Keith Baldus
Treasure Hunters
Brian Keith Bowen
Guide to the London countryway
Brian Keith Chesterton
Strickberger's evolution
Brian Keith Hall
Evolution
Brian Keith Hall
Strong content from basic to smart high school level describe the biology and the evidence of evolution.
Strickberger's evolution
Brian Keith Hall
Thoroughly updated and reorganized, strickberger's evolution, fourth edition, presents an overview of prevailing evidence and theories about evolution by discussing how the world and its organisms arose and changed over time.
Bones and cartilage
Brian Keith Hall
Bones and cartilage provides the most in-depth review ever assembled on the topic.
Neural crest in development and evolution
Brian Keith Hall
This book is about the neural crest and neural crest cells, dealing with their discovery, their embryological and evolutionary origins, their cellular derivatives - in both agnathan and jawed vertebrates or gnathostomes - and the broad topics of migration.
Evolutionary developmental biology
Brian Keith Hall
Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century; the search for connections between embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary change (phylogeny) has been a long one.
Evolutionary developmental biology
Brian Keith Hall
Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century; the search for connections between embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary change (phylogeny) has been a long one.
Evolutionary developmental biology
Brian Keith Hall
Many changes that occur during the embryonic development of an individual animal can be seen as a parallel to changes that have occurred in species or groups of species during evolutionary time.
The Neural Crest
Brian Keith Hall
Neural crest
Brian Keith Hall
Developmental and cellular skeletal biology
Brian Keith Hall
Developmental and cellular skeletal biology reviews the development, growth, and cell biology of the skeleton.
Chondrogenesis of the somitic mesoderm
Brian Keith Hall
ABC's Awesomely Alliterated
Brian Keith Holz & Warren Wallace Holz
Abc's awesomely alliterated; 26 terrifically tall tongue twisting tales.
The Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson
An african american breakfast at tiffany’s–a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self—discovery from the critically acclaimed author of the view from here and walking through mirrors.
Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson
The Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson
An african american breakfast at tiffany’s–a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self—discovery from the critically acclaimed author of the view from here and walking through mirrors.
Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson
An african american breakfast at tiffany’s–a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self—discovery from the critically acclaimed author of the view from here and walking through mirrors.
The Queen of Harlem
Brian Keith Jackson
An african american breakfast at tiffany’s–a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self—discovery from the critically acclaimed author of the view from here and walking through mirrors.
Vu d'ici
Brian Keith Jackson
Walking Through Mirrors
Brian Keith Jackson
In his breathtaking debut, the view from here, brian keith jackson took us inside the heart of black family life in the rural south.
Walking Through Mirrors
Brian Keith Jackson
A story about coming-of-age and coming into oneself as a young black man, it centers on jeremy, who is raised by his father's mother and sister after his own mother dies.
Walking through mirrors
Brian Keith Jackson
A story about coming-of-age and coming into oneself as a young black man, it centers on jeremy, who is raised by his father's mother and sister after his own mother dies.
Walking through mirrors
Brian Keith Jackson
A story about coming-of-age and coming into oneself as a young black man, it centers on jeremy, who is raised by his father's mother and sister after his own mother dies.
The View From Here
Brian Keith Jackson
For fans of alice walker and toni morrison—a haunting debut novel that lays bare the universal truths that bind all families.
View from here
Brian Keith Jackson
In the tradition of alice walker and toni morrison, this heartwrenching novel of black family life in the rural south surges with raw emotional power and deeply felt truth.
The view from here
Brian Keith Jackson
In the tradition of alice walker and toni morrison, this heartwrenching novel of black family life in the rural south surges with raw emotional power and deeply felt truth.
The Full Contact Rules for Business
Brian Keith Jones
The Full Contact Rules for Business
Brian Keith Jones
Whatever happened to old-fashioned common sense?
Biological fate of vinylidene chloride in mammals.
Brian Keith Jones
Study of phase equilibria in the tin-silver-antimony ternary system
Brian Keith Kirkpatrick
Evaluation of an electrospray interface for ion mobility spectrometry
Brian Keith Luckenbill
Stratigraphic study of the marine Cretaceous rocks near Mitchell, Oregon
Brian Keith McKnight
The ecological energetics of birds in New Guinea
Brian Keith McNab
Physiological ecology of vertebrates
Brian Keith McNab
Physiological ecology has grown in importance as an area of biology in the past thirty years and integrates the diverse approaches used in the comparative biology of organisms.
What is Christian giving?
Brian Keith Rice
Another Sixth Sense
Brian Keith Roesch
Welcome to a powerful, but shocking presence of an out-of-breath thriller based upon a true story from writer and ghost hunter brian roesch.
Internship report
Brian Keith Rolf
Energy-dependent techniques in diagnostic radiology.
Brian Keith Rutt
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