Acting

Brian Keith

Born 1921-11-14 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Died 1997-06-24

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.

Credits

Newest first

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Follow Your Heart
as Roddy Thompson
1999
The Second Civil War
as General Buford
1997
Rough Riders
as President William McKinley
1997
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
as Cardinal
1996
Pacific Blue
as Mac McNamara
1996
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
as 'Noble Hart' / Self
1995
Picture Windows: Lightning
as Tappan
1995
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
as Pete Morgan
1995
Walking Thunder
as Narrator
1995
Cybill
as Arthur Minnow
1995
Spider-Man
as Uncle Ben (voice)
1994
Touched by an Angel
as Leonard Pound
1994
Duckman
as Duckman's Father (voice)
1994
Burke's Law
as Norman Hope
1994
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Del Forman
1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Mullibok
1993
Wind Dancer
as Truman Richards
1993
Walter & Emily
as Walter Collins
1991
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as The Westerner
1991
The Commish
1991
Lady in a Corner
as David Henderson
1989
Welcome Home
as Harry Robins
1989
Heartland
as B.L. McCutcheon
1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
as Frank Wellman Sr.
1989
The Passage
as Byron Monroe
1988
Young Guns
as Buckshot Roberts
1988
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
as Colonel Davy Crockett
1987
Pursuit of Happiness
1987
Death Before Dishonor
as Col. Halloran
1987
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self (uncredited)
1986
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
as General Newmeyer
1986
Murder, She Wrote
as Caleb McCallum
1984
Hardcastle and McCormick
as Milton Hardcastle
1983
Cry for the Strangers
as Chief Whalen
1982
World War III
as Secretary General Gorny
1982
Sharky's Machine
as Papa
1981
All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
1981
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Police Chief Baxter
1981
The Mountain Men
as Henry Frapp
1980
The Silent Lovers
as Mauritz Stiller
1980
Power
as Charles Kandell
1980
Meteor
as Dr. Dubov
1979
The Seekers
as Elijah Weatherby
1979
The Chisholms
as Andrew Blake
1979
Centennial
as Sheriff Axel Dumire
1978
Hooper
as Jocko Doyle
1978
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
1977
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
as Joe Quinlan
1977
How the West Was Won
as General Stonecipher
1977
Nickelodeon
as H.H. Cobb
1976
The Loneliest Runner
as Arnold Curtis
1976
Joe Panther
as Capt. Harper
1976
The Quest
as Tank Logan
1976
The Quest
as Tank Logan
1976
The Wind and the Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
1975
Archer
as Lew Archer
1975
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
1975
The Yakuza
as George Tanner
1974
The Zoo Gang
as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday
1974
The Brian Keith Show
as Dr. Sean Jamison
1972
The Brian Keith Show
Director
1972
The Bull of the West
as Johnny Wade
1972
Second Chance
as Geoff Smith
1972
Something Big
as Col. Morgan
1971
Scandalous John
as John McCanless
1971
The McKenzie Break
as Captain Jack Connor
1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Officer Michael M. Nace
1970
Gaily, Gaily
as Francis Sullivan
1969
Krakatoa, East of Java
as Connerly
1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
With Six You Get Eggroll
as Jake Iverson
1968
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
1967
Way... Way Out
as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
1966
Family Affair
as Bill Davis
1966
Nevada Smith
as Jonas Cord
1966
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as Police Chief Link Mattocks
1966
The Tenderfoot
as Mose Carson
1966
The Rare Breed
as Alexander Bowen
1966
Johnny Shiloh
as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
1965