Brian Keith

Acting • Born 1921-11-14 – Died 1997-06-24

Acting1Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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 1960s sitcom Family Affair, and a tough judge in the 1980s drama Hardcastle and McCormick.

Filmography

159 credits

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Movie • 1967

Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

Nevada Smith

Movie • 1966

Jonas Cord

Picture Windows: Lightning

Movie • 1995

Tappan

The Hallelujah Trail

Movie • 1965

Frank Wallingham

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Movie • 1966

Police Chief Link Mattocks

Young Guns

Movie • 1988

Buckshot Roberts

Nightfall

Movie • 1956

John

Meteor

Movie • 1979

Dr. Dubov

Run of the Arrow

Movie • 1957

Captain Clark

The Yakuza

Movie • 1974

George Tanner

Sharky's Machine

Movie • 1981

Papa

Those Calloways

Movie • 1964

Cam Calloway

The Wind and the Lion

Movie • 1975

Theodore Roosevelt

The Young Philadelphians

Movie • 1959

Mike Flanagan

The Violent Men

Movie • 1955

Cole Wilkison

Arrowhead

Movie • 1953

Capt. Bill North

Appointment with a Shadow

Movie • 1957

Lt. Spencer

Death Before Dishonor

Movie • 1987

Col. Halloran

5 Against the House

Movie • 1955

Brick

Storm Center

Movie • 1956

Paul Duncan

Hooper

Movie • 1978

Jocko Doyle

The McKenzie Break

Movie • 1970

Captain Jack Connor

The Rare Breed

Movie • 1966

Alexander Bowen

Chicago Confidential

Movie • 1957

Jim Fremont

Moon Pilot

Movie • 1962

Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

A Tiger Walks

Movie • 1964

Sheriff Pete Williams

With Six You Get Eggroll

Movie • 1968

Jake Iverson

The Deadly Companions

Movie • 1961

Yellowleg

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Movie • 1981

Police Chief Baxter

Savage Sam

Movie • 1963

Uncle Beck Coates

The Parent Trap

Movie • 1961

Mitch Evers

The Tenderfoot

Movie • 1966

Mose Carson

Welcome Home

Movie • 1989

Harry Robins

The Mountain Men

Movie • 1980

Henry Frapp

Tight Spot

Movie • 1955

Vince Striker

Way... Way Out

Movie • 1966

Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby

Scandalous John

Movie • 1971

John McCanless

Nickelodeon

Movie • 1976

H.H. Cobb

Violent Road

Movie • 1958

Mitch Barton

Fort Dobbs

Movie • 1958

Clett

Jivaro

Movie • 1954

Tony

Cry for the Strangers

Movie • 1982

Chief Whalen

The Bull of the West

Movie • 1972

Johnny Wade

Alaska Seas

Movie • 1954

Jim Kimmerly

Gaily, Gaily

Movie • 1969

Francis Sullivan

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

Movie • 1986

General Newmeyer

The Loneliest Runner

Movie • 1976

Arnold Curtis

Dino

Movie • 1957

Larry Sheridan

Something Big

Movie • 1971

Col. Morgan

The Bamboo Prison

Movie • 1954

Cpl. Brady

The Raiders

Movie • 1963

McElroy

Ten Who Dared

Movie • 1960

William Dunn

Follow Your Heart

Movie • 1999

Roddy Thompson

Second Chance

Movie • 1972

Geoff Smith

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

Movie • 1989

Frank Wellman Sr.

Sierra Baron

Movie • 1958

Jack McCrackin

Krakatoa, East of Java

Movie • 1969

Connerly

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Movie • 1970

Officer Michael M. Nace

The Second Civil War

Movie • 1997

General Buford

The Pleasure Seekers

Movie • 1964

Paul Barton

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

Movie • 1987

Colonel Davy Crockett

After the Rain

Movie • 1988

Byron Monroe

The Silent Lovers

Movie • 1980

Mauritz Stiller

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

Movie • 1977

Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney

Hell Canyon Outlaws

Movie • 1957

Happy Waters

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

Movie • 1977

Joe Quinlan

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!

Movie • 1954

Mike Hammer

Fourteen Hours

Movie • 1951

Extra (uncredited)

Walking Thunder

Movie • 1995

Narrator

The Quest

Movie • 1976

Tank Logan

Joe Panther

Movie • 1976

Capt. Harper

Knute Rockne All American

Movie • 1940

Student at Train Station (uncredited)

Lady in a Corner

Movie • 1989

David Henderson

Wind Dancer

Movie • 1993

Truman Richards

Johnny Shiloh

Movie • 1965

Sgt. Gabe Trotter

Desert Hell

Movie • 1958

Capt. Robert Edwards

Boomerang!

Movie • 1947

Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

Bristle Face

Movie • 1964

Lue Swank

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

Movie • 1995

Pete Morgan

Villa!!

Movie • 1958

Bill Harmon

All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds

Movie • 1981

Self

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

Movie • 1996

Cardinal

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Movie • 2004

Self (archive footage)

The Lion Roars Again

Movie • 1975

Self

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

Movie • 1960

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

Movie • 1995

'Noble Hart' / Self

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Movie • 1991

The Westerner

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

Movie • 1986

Self

Duckman

TV • 1994

Duckman's Father (voice)

The Great Adventure

TV • 1963

Henry Bergh

Hardcastle and McCormick

TV • 1983

Milton Hardcastle

Family Affair

TV • 1966

Bill Davis

Spider-Man

TV • 1994

Uncle Ben (voice)

Kraft Suspense Theatre

TV • 1963

Andy Bastian

Touched by an Angel

TV • 1994

Leonard Pound

Cybill

TV • 1995

Arthur Minnow

Walker, Texas Ranger

TV • 1993

Del Forman

The Commish

TV • 1991

The Westerner

TV • 1960

Dave Blassingame

Centennial

TV • 1978

Sheriff Axel Dumire

The Ford Television Theatre

TV • 1952

Dan Crawford

Hallmark Hall of Fame

TV • 1951

Prosecuting Attorney

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV • 1955

Dave Rainey

Target: The Corruptors!

TV • 1961

Outlaws

TV • 1960

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Tod Macauley

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Johnny Wade

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

TV • 1969

Self

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

Happy

Climax!

TV • 1954

Sam Pryce

The Zoo Gang

TV • 1974

Stephen "The Fox" Halliday

Profiles in Courage

TV • 1964

Thomas Hart Benton

Laramie

TV • 1959

The Brian Keith Show

TV • 1972

Dr. Sean Jamison

Suspense

TV • 1949

Johnny

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV • 1950

Harry

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Dave Blassingame

Tales of Tomorrow

TV • 1951

The Wonderful World of Disney

TV • 1961

Dr. Kildare

TV • 1961

Alfred Freely

Pursuit of Happiness

TV • 1987

Heartland

TV • 1989

B.L. McCutcheon

Archer

TV • 1975

Lew Archer

Walter & Emily

TV • 1991

Walter Collins

77 Sunset Strip

TV • 1958

Sgt. Patrick Cohan

The Wonderful World of Disney

TV • 1954

Shadrach O'Reilly

Studio 57

TV • 1954

The Quest

TV • 1976

Tank Logan

Crusader

TV • 1955

Matt Anders

World War III

TV • 1982

Secretary General Gorny

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

Choya

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

David Sutton

Rough Riders

TV • 1997

President William McKinley

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

TV • 1962

Self