Brian Keith
Acting

Brian Keith

Born 14 November 1921 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA · Died 24 June 1997

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

Spider-Man
Young Guns
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Walker, Texas Ranger
Murder, She Wrote
The Parent Trap
The Yakuza
The Wind and the Lion
Nevada Smith
Meteor
Hooper
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Follow Your Heart
The Second Civil War
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Picture Windows: Lightning
Walking Thunder
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Wind Dancer
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Welcome Home
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Lady in a Corner
Young Guns
The Passage
Death Before Dishonor
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
Cry for the Strangers
Sharky's Machine
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
The Mountain Men
The Silent Lovers
Meteor
Hooper
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Nickelodeon
The Loneliest Runner
The Quest
The Wind and the Lion
The Yakuza
The Bull of the West
Second Chance
Scandalous John
Something Big
The McKenzie Break
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Gaily, Gaily
Krakatoa, East of Java
With Six You Get Eggroll
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Nevada Smith
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
The Rare Breed
The Tenderfoot
Way... Way Out
The Hallelujah Trail
Johnny Shiloh
Those Calloways
A Tiger Walks
The Pleasure Seekers
Bristle Face
Savage Sam
The Raiders
Moon Pilot
The Deadly Companions
The Parent Trap
Ten Who Dared
The Young Philadelphians
Violent Road
Fort Dobbs
Sierra Baron
Desert Hell
Villa!!
Run of the Arrow
Appointment with a Shadow
Chicago Confidential
Dino
Hell Canyon Outlaws
Nightfall
Storm Center
The Violent Men
5 Against the House
Tight Spot
Jivaro
Alaska Seas
The Bamboo Prison
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
Arrowhead
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