Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 14, 1921
Died
Jun 24, 1997
Place of Birth
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Credits
145 titles
Brian Keith
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.
Known For
Filmography
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Follow Your Heart
Roddy Thompson
The Second Civil War
General Buford
Rough Riders
President William McKinley
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Cardinal
Pacific Blue
Mac McNamara
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
'Noble Hart' / Self
Picture Windows: Lightning
Tappan
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Pete Morgan
Walking Thunder
Narrator
Cybill
Arthur Minnow
Spider-Man
Uncle Ben (voice)
Touched by an Angel
Leonard Pound
Duckman
Duckman's Father (voice)
Burke's Law
Norman Hope
Walker, Texas Ranger
Del Forman
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Mullibok
Wind Dancer
Truman Richards
Walter & Emily
Walter Collins
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
The Westerner
The Commish
Lady in a Corner
David Henderson
Welcome Home
Harry Robins
Heartland
B.L. McCutcheon
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
Frank Wellman Sr.
After the Rain
Byron Monroe
Young Guns
Buckshot Roberts
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Colonel Davy Crockett
Pursuit of Happiness
Death Before Dishonor
Col. Halloran
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Self (uncredited)
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
General Newmeyer
Murder, She Wrote
Caleb McCallum
Hardcastle and McCormick
Milton Hardcastle
Cry for the Strangers
Chief Whalen
World War III
Secretary General Gorny
Sharky's Machine
Papa
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Self
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Police Chief Baxter
The Mountain Men
Henry Frapp
The Silent Lovers
Mauritz Stiller
Power
Charles Kandell
Meteor
Dr. Dubov
The Seekers
Elijah Weatherby
The Chisholms
Andrew Blake
Centennial
Sheriff Axel Dumire
Hooper
Jocko Doyle
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Joe Quinlan
How the West Was Won
General Stonecipher