Brian Keith
Actor
- Born
- November 14, 1921 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
- Died
- June 24, 1997 (age 75)
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.
Known for
Young Guns
August 12, 1988
The Parent Trap
May 13, 1961
The Yakuza
December 21, 1974
The Wind and the Lion
May 22, 1975
Nevada Smith
June 10, 1966
Meteor
October 19, 1979
Hooper
July 28, 1978
Reflections in a Golden Eye
October 13, 1967
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
May 25, 1966
Sharky's Machine
December 18, 1981
Nightfall
November 9, 1956
The Hallelujah Trail
June 23, 1965
Acting88
- 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- 1999Follow Your Heart as Roddy Thompson
- 1997The Second Civil War as General Buford
- 1996Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story as Cardinal
- 1995National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins as 'Noble Hart' / Self
- 1995Picture Windows: Lightning as Tappan
- 1995The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. as Pete Morgan
- 1995Walking Thunder as Narrator
- 1993Wind Dancer as Truman Richards
- 1991