
Brian Keith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1921
- Died
- June 24, 1997 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- Bayonne, 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.
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Filmography

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Follow Your Heart
Movie · as Roddy Thompson

The Second Civil War
Movie · as General Buford

Rough Riders
TV · as President William McKinley · 2 eps

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Movie · as Cardinal

Pacific Blue
TV · as Mac McNamara · 1 ep

Picture Windows: Lightning
Movie · as Tappan

Walking Thunder
Movie · as Narrator

The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Movie · as Pete Morgan

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
Movie · as 'Noble Hart' / Self

Cybill
TV · as Arthur Minnow · 1 ep

Duckman
TV · as Duckman's Father (voice) · 1 ep

Spider-Man
TV · as Uncle Ben (voice) · 2 eps

Touched by an Angel
TV · as Leonard Pound · 1 ep

Burke's Law
TV · as Norman Hope · 1 ep

Wind Dancer
Movie · as Truman Richards

Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · as Del Forman · 1 ep

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV · as Mullibok · 1 ep

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Movie · as The Westerner

The Commish
TV · 1 ep

Walter & Emily
TV · as Walter Collins · 13 eps

Welcome Home
Movie · as Harry Robins

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Movie · as Frank Wellman Sr.

Lady in a Corner
Movie · as David Henderson

Heartland
TV · as B.L. McCutcheon · 10 eps

Young Guns
Movie · as Buckshot Roberts

The Passage
Movie · as Byron Monroe

Death Before Dishonor
Movie · as Col. Halloran

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Movie · as Colonel Davy Crockett
Pursuit of Happiness
TV · 10 eps

The B.R.A.T. Patrol
Movie · as General Newmeyer
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Movie · as Self (uncredited)

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Caleb McCallum · 1 ep

Hardcastle and McCormick
TV · as Milton Hardcastle · 67 eps

Cry for the Strangers
Movie · as Chief Whalen

World War III
TV · as Secretary General Gorny · 2 eps

Sharky's Machine
Movie · as Papa

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Movie · as Police Chief Baxter
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Movie · as Self

The Mountain Men
Movie · as Henry Frapp

The Silent Lovers
Movie · as Mauritz Stiller

Power
TV · as Charles Kandell · 2 eps

Meteor
Movie · as Dr. Dubov

The Chisholms
TV · as Andrew Blake · 1 ep

The Seekers
TV · as Elijah Weatherby · 2 eps

Hooper
Movie · as Jocko Doyle

Centennial
TV · as Sheriff Axel Dumire · 12 eps

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Movie · as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Movie · as Joe Quinlan

How the West Was Won
TV · as General Stonecipher · 2 eps

Nickelodeon
Movie · as H.H. Cobb

The Loneliest Runner
Movie · as Arnold Curtis

The Quest
Movie · as Tank Logan
Joe Panther
Movie · as Capt. Harper

The Quest
TV · as Tank Logan · 16 eps

The Wind and the Lion
Movie · as Theodore Roosevelt
The Lion Roars Again
Movie · as Self

Archer
TV · as Lew Archer · 6 eps

The Yakuza
Movie · as George Tanner

The Zoo Gang
TV · as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday · 6 eps

The Bull of the West
Movie · as Johnny Wade

Second Chance
Movie · as Geoff Smith

The Brian Keith Show
TV · as Dr. Sean Jamison · 48 eps

Scandalous John
Movie · as John McCanless

Something Big
Movie · as Col. Morgan

The McKenzie Break
Movie · as Captain Jack Connor

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie · as Officer Michael M. Nace

Gaily, Gaily
Movie · as Francis Sullivan

Krakatoa, East of Java
Movie · as Connerly

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep

With Six You Get Eggroll
Movie · as Jake Iverson

Reflections in a Golden Eye
Movie · as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon

Nevada Smith
Movie · as Jonas Cord

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Movie · as Police Chief Link Mattocks

The Rare Breed
Movie · as Alexander Bowen

The Tenderfoot
Movie · as Mose Carson

Way... Way Out
Movie · as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby

Family Affair
TV · as Bill Davis · 138 eps

The Hallelujah Trail
Movie · as Frank Wallingham

Johnny Shiloh
Movie · as Sgt. Gabe Trotter

Those Calloways
Movie · as Cam Calloway

A Tiger Walks
Movie · as Sheriff Pete Williams

The Pleasure Seekers
Movie · as Paul Barton

Bristle Face
Movie · as Lue Swank
Profiles in Courage
TV · as Thomas Hart Benton · 1 ep

The Tenderfoot
TV · as Mose Carson · 3 eps

Savage Sam
Movie · as Uncle Beck Coates

The Raiders
Movie · as McElroy

The Great Adventure
TV · as Henry Bergh · 1 ep

Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Andy Bastian · 1 ep

The Fugitive
TV · as Edward Welles · 1 ep

Moon Pilot
Movie · as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman

The Virginian
TV · as Johnny Wade · 1 ep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Jim Mallory · 1 ep

The Deadly Companions
Movie · as Yellowleg

The Parent Trap
Movie · as Mitch Evers

Target: The Corruptors!
TV · 2 eps

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · 3 eps

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Alfred Freely · 1 ep

Ten Who Dared
Movie · as William Dunn

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
Movie

The Westerner
TV · as Dave Blassingame · 13 eps

Outlaws
TV · 2 eps

The Young Philadelphians
Movie · as Mike Flanagan

Rawhide
TV · as Tod Macauley · 1 ep

Laramie
TV · 1 ep

The Untouchables
TV · as Jim Martinson · 1 ep

Violent Road
Movie · as Mitch Barton

Fort Dobbs
Movie · as Clett

Sierra Baron
Movie · as Jack McCrackin

Desert Hell
Movie · as Capt. Robert Edwards

Villa!!
Movie · as Bill Harmon

77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Sgt. Patrick Cohan · 1 ep

Run of the Arrow
Movie · as Captain Clark

Appointment with a Shadow
Movie · as Lt. Spencer

Chicago Confidential
Movie · as Jim Fremont

Dino
Movie · as Larry Sheridan

Hell Canyon Outlaws
Movie · as Happy Waters

Nightfall
Movie · as John

Storm Center
Movie · as Paul Duncan

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Dave Blassingame · 1 ep

The Violent Men
Movie · as Cole Wilkison

5 Against the House
Movie · as Brick

Tight Spot
Movie · as Vince Striker

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Dave Rainey, Arnold Shawn, Herbert Morrison, Vernon Wedge · 1 ep
Crusader
TV · as Matt Anders · 53 eps

Jivaro
Movie · as Tony

Alaska Seas
Movie · as Jim Kimmerly

The Bamboo Prison
Movie · as Cpl. Brady

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
Movie · as Mike Hammer

Climax!
TV · as Sam Pryce · 1 ep

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Shadrach O'Reilly, Sergeant Gabe Trotter, Lue Swank, Gen. Newmeyer · 1 ep

Studio 57
TV · as Dan, Denis Burke · 1 ep

Arrowhead
Movie · as Capt. Bill North
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV · as Joe Kelly · 1 ep

The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Dan Crawford, Mano · 1 ep

Fourteen Hours
Movie · as Extra (uncredited)

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Prosecuting Attorney · 1 ep

Tales of Tomorrow
TV · 4 eps

Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Happy, Choya, David Sutton · 1 ep

Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Harry · 1 ep

Suspense
TV · as Johnny, Lt. Jim Connor, Idaho, Kip Caley · 1 ep

Boomerang!
Movie · as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

Knute Rockne All American
Movie · as Student at Train Station (uncredited)


