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