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Brian Keith
Acting
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.
BODY OF WORK
Brian Keith's Filmography
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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
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
as Cardinal
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
as 'Noble Hart' / Self
Picture Windows: Lightning
as Tappan
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
as Pete Morgan
Walking Thunder
as Narrator
Wind Dancer
as Truman Richards
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as The Westerner
Lady in a Corner
as David Henderson
Welcome Home
as Harry Robins
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
as Frank Wellman Sr.
The Passage
as Byron Monroe
Young Guns
as Buckshot Roberts
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
as Colonel Davy Crockett
Death Before Dishonor
as Col. Halloran
No Poster
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self (uncredited)
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
as General Newmeyer
Cry for the Strangers
as Chief Whalen
Sharky's Machine
as Papa
No Poster
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Police Chief Baxter
The Mountain Men
as Henry Frapp
The Silent Lovers
as Mauritz Stiller
Meteor
as Dr. Dubov
Hooper
as Jocko Doyle
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
as Joe Quinlan
Nickelodeon
as H.H. Cobb
The Loneliest Runner
as Arnold Curtis
No Poster
Joe Panther
as Capt. Harper
The Quest
as Tank Logan
The Wind and the Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
No Poster
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
The Yakuza
as George Tanner
The Bull of the West
as Johnny Wade
Second Chance
as Geoff Smith
Something Big
as Col. Morgan
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
Gaily, Gaily
as Francis Sullivan
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Connerly
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Jake Iverson
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
Way... Way Out
as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
Nevada Smith
as Jonas Cord
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as Police Chief Link Mattocks
The Tenderfoot
as Mose Carson
The Rare Breed
as Alexander Bowen
Johnny Shiloh
as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
The Hallelujah Trail
as Frank Wallingham
The Pleasure Seekers
as Paul Barton
Those Calloways
as Cam Calloway
A Tiger Walks
as Sheriff Pete Williams
Bristle Face
as Lue Swank
The Raiders
as McElroy
Savage Sam
as Uncle Beck Coates
Moon Pilot
as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
The Deadly Companions
as Yellowleg
The Parent Trap
as Mitch Evers
Ten Who Dared
as William Dunn
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
The Young Philadelphians
as Mike Flanagan
Villa!!
as Bill Harmon
Sierra Baron
as Jack McCrackin
Desert Hell
as Capt. Robert Edwards
Violent Road
as Mitch Barton
Fort Dobbs
as Clett
Hell Canyon Outlaws
as Happy Waters
Run of the Arrow
as Captain Clark
Appointment with a Shadow
as Lt. Spencer
Chicago Confidential
as Jim Fremont
Dino
as Larry Sheridan
Nightfall
as John
Storm Center
as Paul Duncan
5 Against the House
as Brick
Tight Spot
as Vince Striker
The Violent Men
as Cole Wilkison
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
as Mike Hammer
The Bamboo Prison
as Cpl. Brady
Jivaro
as Tony
Alaska Seas
as Jim Kimmerly
Arrowhead
as Capt. Bill North
Fourteen Hours
as Extra (uncredited)
Boomerang!
as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
as Student at Train Station (uncredited)