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Brian Keith
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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…
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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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2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Follow Your Heart
Movie Roddy Thompson
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1997
The Second Civil War
Movie General Buford
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1997
Rough Riders
TV show President William McKinley
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1996
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Movie Cardinal
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1996
Pacific Blue
TV show Mac McNamara
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1995
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
Movie 'Noble Hart' / Self
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1995
Picture Windows: Lightning
Movie Tappan
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1995
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Movie Pete Morgan
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1995
Walking Thunder
Movie Narrator
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1995
Cybill
TV show Arthur Minnow
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1994
Spider-Man
TV show Uncle Ben (voice)
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show Leonard Pound
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1994
Duckman
TV show Duckman's Father (voice)
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1994
Burke's Law
TV show Norman Hope
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1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV show Del Forman
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1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV show Mullibok
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1993
Wind Dancer
Movie Truman Richards
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1991
Walter & Emily
TV show Walter Collins
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1991
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Movie The Westerner
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1991
The Commish
TV show
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1989
Lady in a Corner
Movie David Henderson
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1989
Welcome Home
Movie Harry Robins
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1989
Heartland
TV show B.L. McCutcheon
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1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Movie Frank Wellman Sr.
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1988
The Passage
Movie Byron Monroe
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1988
Young Guns
Movie Buckshot Roberts
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1987
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Movie Colonel Davy Crockett
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1987
Pursuit of Happiness
TV show
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1987
Death Before Dishonor
Movie Col. Halloran
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1986
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1986
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
Movie General Newmeyer
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Caleb McCallum
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1983
Hardcastle and McCormick
TV show Milton Hardcastle
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1982
Cry for the Strangers
Movie Chief Whalen
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1982
World War III
TV show Secretary General Gorny
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1981
Sharky's Machine
Movie Papa
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1981
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Movie Self
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1981
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Movie Police Chief Baxter
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1980
The Mountain Men
Movie Henry Frapp
