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Brian Keith

Born 1921-11-14

Died 1997-06-24

📍 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 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 148

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)

Follow Your Heart

as Roddy Thompson

The Second Civil War

as General Buford

as President William McKinley

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

as Mac McNamara

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

as 'Noble Hart' / Self

Picture Windows: Lightning

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

Walking Thunder

as Arthur Minnow

as Uncle Ben (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Leonard Pound

as Duckman's Father (voice)

Walker, Texas Ranger

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Truman Richards

as Walter Collins

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

as The Westerner

Lady in a Corner

as David Henderson

as Harry Robins

as B.L. McCutcheon

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

as Frank Wellman Sr.

as Byron Monroe

as Buckshot Roberts

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

as Colonel Davy Crockett

Death Before Dishonor

as Col. Halloran

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

as General Newmeyer

Murder, She Wrote

as Caleb McCallum

Hardcastle and McCormick

as Milton Hardcastle

Cry for the Strangers

as Chief Whalen

as Secretary General Gorny

Sharky's Machine

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

as Police Chief Baxter

The Mountain Men

The Silent Lovers

as Mauritz Stiller

as Charles Kandell

as Elijah Weatherby

as Andrew Blake

as Sheriff Axel Dumire

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

How the West Was Won

as General Stonecipher

The Loneliest Runner

as Arnold Curtis

The Wind and the Lion

as Theodore Roosevelt

as George Tanner

as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday

The Brian Keith Show

as Dr. Sean Jamison

The Bull of the West

Scandalous John

as John McCanless

The McKenzie Break

as Captain Jack Connor

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as Officer Michael M. Nace

as Francis Sullivan

Krakatoa, East of Java

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

With Six You Get Eggroll

as Jake Iverson

Reflections in a Golden Eye

as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

as Police Chief Link Mattocks

as Alexander Bowen

as Sgt. Gabe Trotter

The Hallelujah Trail

as Frank Wallingham

The Pleasure Seekers

Those Calloways

as Cam Calloway

as Sheriff Pete Williams

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Andy Bastian

The Great Adventure

as Edward Welles

as Uncle Beck Coates

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

Target: The Corruptors!

as Alfred Freely

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Deadly Companions

The Parent Trap

as William Dunn

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

as Dave Blassingame

The Untouchables

as Jim Martinson

The Young Philadelphians

as Mike Flanagan

as Tod Macauley

77 Sunset Strip

as Sgt. Patrick Cohan

as Jack McCrackin

as Capt. Robert Edwards

as Mitch Barton

Hell Canyon Outlaws

as Happy Waters

Run of the Arrow

as Captain Clark

Appointment with a Shadow

Chicago Confidential

as Larry Sheridan

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Dave Blassingame

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Arnold Shawn

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Herbert Morrison

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Vernon Wedge

5 Against the House

as Vince Striker

The Violent Men

as Cole Wilkison

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Shadrach O'Reilly

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Sergeant Gabe Trotter

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Gen. Newmeyer

The Bamboo Prison

as Jim Kimmerly

as Capt. Bill North

The Ford Television Theatre

as Dan Crawford

The Ford Television Theatre

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Prosecuting Attorney

Tales of Tomorrow

as Extra (uncredited)

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Lt. Jim Connor

as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

Knute Rockne All American

as Student at Train Station (uncredited)