Brian Keith
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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.
Known for
Credits
Hooper (1978)
as Jocko Doyle
Young Guns (1988)
as Buckshot Roberts
The Parent Trap (1961)
as Mitch Evers
The Yakuza (1974)
as George Tanner
The Passage (1988)
as Byron Monroe
The Rare Breed (1966)
as Alexander Bowen
Fourteen Hours (1951)
as Extra (uncredited)
Sharky's Machine (1981)
as Papa
Lady in a Corner (1989)
as David Henderson
Nightfall (1956)
as John
Savage Sam (1963)
as Uncle Beck Coates
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
as Police Chief Link Mattocks
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
as Student at Train Station (uncredited)
Meteor (1979)
as Dr. Dubov
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
as Theodore Roosevelt
Nickelodeon (1976)
as H.H. Cobb
5 Against the House (1955)
as Brick
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Jonas Cord
Dino (1957)
as Larry Sheridan
Picture Windows: Lightning (1995)
as Tappan
The Second Civil War (1997)
as General Buford
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
as Connerly
The Mountain Men (1980)
as Henry Frapp
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
as Frank Wallingham
The B.R.A.T. Patrol (1986)
as General Newmeyer
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
The Violent Men (1955)
as Cole Wilkison
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
as Police Chief Baxter
Run of the Arrow (1957)
as Captain Clark
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
as Jake Iverson
Ten Who Dared (1960)
as William Dunn
The Deadly Companions (1961)
as Yellowleg
Those Calloways (1964)
as Cam Calloway
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
as Colonel Davy Crockett
Jivaro (1954)
as Tony
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989)
as Frank Wellman Sr.
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan (1977)
as Joe Quinlan
The Loneliest Runner (1976)
as Arnold Curtis
Fort Dobbs (1958)
as Clett
Moon Pilot (1962)
as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
Arrowhead (1953)
as Capt. Bill North
Follow Your Heart (1999)
as Roddy Thompson
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
as Mike Flanagan
Welcome Home (1989)
as Harry Robins
The Bull of the West (1972)
as Johnny Wade
Tight Spot (1955)
as Vince Striker
The Quest (1976)
as Tank Logan
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country (1960)
Actor
Boomerang! (1947)
as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The McKenzie Break (1970)
as Captain Jack Connor
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
as Officer Michael M. Nace
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991)
as The Westerner
Appointment with a Shadow (1957)
as Lt. Spencer
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
as Francis Sullivan
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
as Cardinal
A Tiger Walks (1964)
as Sheriff Pete Williams
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. (1995)
as Pete Morgan
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
as Paul Barton
The Raiders (1963)
as McElroy
Storm Center (1956)
as Paul Duncan
Johnny Shiloh (1965)
as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
Hell Canyon Outlaws (1957)
as Happy Waters
Something Big (1971)
as Col. Morgan
Way... Way Out (1966)
as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
Scandalous John (1971)
as John McCanless
Walking Thunder (1995)
as Narrator
Bristle Face (1964)
as Lue Swank
Alaska Seas (1954)
as Jim Kimmerly
Desert Hell (1958)
as Capt. Robert Edwards
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins (1995)
as 'Noble Hart' / Self
Death Before Dishonor (1987)
as Col. Halloran
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds (1981)
as Self
Chicago Confidential (1957)
as Jim Fremont
Violent Road (1958)
as Mitch Barton
Cry for the Strangers (1982)
as Chief Whalen
Villa!! (1958)
as Bill Harmon
The Bamboo Prison (1954)
as Cpl. Brady
Second Chance (1972)
as Geoff Smith
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977)
as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986)
as Self (uncredited)
The Tenderfoot (1966)
as Mose Carson
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
as Self
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer! (1954)
as Mike Hammer
Sierra Baron (1958)
as Jack McCrackin
Wind Dancer (1993)
as Truman Richards
The Silent Lovers (1980)
as Mauritz Stiller
Joe Panther (1976)
as Capt. Harper