Birthday
1921/11/14
Day of death
1997/06/24 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Also know as
Robert Keith Richey Jr.
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 1960...Read more
(1967) Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
(1966) Nevada Smith
as Jonas Cord
(1995) Lightning
as Tappan
(1965) The Hallelujah Trail
as Frank Wallingham
(1966) The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as Police Chief Link Mattocks
(1988) Young Guns
as Buckshot Roberts
(1956) Nightfall
as John
(1979) Meteor
as Dr. Dubov
(1957) Run of the Arrow
as Captain Clark
(1974) The Yakuza
as George Tanner
(1981) Sharky's Machine
as Papa
(1965) Those Calloways
as Cam Calloway
(1975) The Wind and the Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1959) The Young Philadelphians
as Mike Flanagan
(1953) Arrowhead
as Capt. Bill North
(1955) The Violent Men
as Cole Wilkison
(1957) Appointment with a Shadow
as Lt. Spencer
(1987) Death Before Dishonor
as Col. Halloran
(1955) 5 Against the House
as Brick
(1978) Hooper
as Jocko Doyle
(1956) Storm Center
as Paul Duncan
(1970) The McKenzie Break
as Captain Jack Connor
(1966) The Rare Breed
as Alexander Bowen
(1957) Chicago Confidential
as Jim Fremont
(1964) A Tiger Walks
as Sheriff Pete Williams
(1962) Moon Pilot
as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
(1968) With Six You Get Eggroll
as Jake Iverson
(1961) The Deadly Companions
as Yellowleg
(1981) Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Police Chief Baxter
(1963) Savage Sam
as Uncle Beck Coates
(1961) The Parent Trap
as Mitch Evers
(1964) The Tenderfoot
as Mose Carson
(1989) Welcome Home
as Harry Robins
(1980) The Mountain Men
as Henry Frapp
(1955) Tight Spot
as Vince Striker
(1966) Way... Way Out
as Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
(1971) Scandalous John
as John McCanless
(1976) Nickelodeon
as H.H. Cobb
(1958) Violent Road
as Mitch Barton
(1958) Fort Dobbs
as Clett
(1954) Jivaro
as Tony
(1982) Cry for the Strangers
as Chief Whalen
(1972) The Bull of the West
as Johnny Wade
(1954) Alaska Seas
as Jim Kimmerly
(1969) Gaily, Gaily
as Francis Sullivan
(1986) The B.R.A.T. Patrol
as General Newmeyer
(1976) The Loneliest Runner
as Arnold Curtis
(1957) Dino
as Larry Sheridan
(1971) Something Big
as Col. Morgan
(1954) The Bamboo Prison
as Cpl. Brady
(1963) The Raiders
as McElroy
(1960) Ten Who Dared
as William Dunn
(1999) Follow Your Heart
as Roddy Thompson
(1972) Second Chance
as Geoff Smith
(1989) Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson
as Frank Wellman Sr.
(1958) Sierra Baron
as Jack McCrackin
(1968) Krakatoa, East of Java
as Connerly
(1970) Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
as Officer Michael M. Nace
(1997) The Second Civil War
as General Buford
(1964) The Pleasure Seekers
as Paul Barton
(1987) The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
as Colonel Davy Crockett
(1988) After the Rain
as Byron Monroe
(1980) The Silent Lovers
as Mauritz Stiller
(1977) The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
(1957) Hell Canyon Outlaws
as Happy Waters
(1977) In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
as Joe Quinlan
(1980) Power
as Charles Kandell
(1954) Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
as Mike Hammer
(1951) Fourteen Hours
as Extra (uncredited)
(1997) Walking Thunder
as Narrator
(1976) The Quest
as Tank Logan
(1976) Joe Panther
as Capt. Harper
(1940) Knute Rockne All American
as Student at Train Station (uncredited)
(1989) Lady in a Corner
as David Henderson
(1993) Wind Dancer
as Truman Richards
(1963) Johnny Shiloh
as Sgt. Gabe Trotter
(1958) Desert Hell
as Capt. Robert Edwards
(1947) Boomerang!
as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse
(1964) Bristle Face
as Lue Swank
(1979) The Seekers
as Elijah Weatherby
(1995) The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
as Pete Morgan
(1958) Villa!!
as Bill Harmon
(1981) All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
as Self
(1996) Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
as Cardinal
(2004) Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) The Lion Roars Again
as Self
(1960) Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
as ---
(1995) National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
as 'Noble Hart' / Self
(1994) Duckman
as ---
(1963) The Great Adventure
as Henry Bergh
(1983) Hardcastle and McCormick
as Milton Hardcastle
(1966) Family Affair
as Bill Davis
(1994) Spider-Man
as Uncle Ben (voice)
(1963) Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Andy Bastian
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Leonard Pound
(1995) Cybill
as ---
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger
as Del Forman
(1991) The Commish
as ---
(1960) The Westerner
as Dave Blassingame
(1978) Centennial
as Sheriff Axel Dumire
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Dan Crawford
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Prosecuting Attorney
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Dave Rainey
(1962) Sam Benedict
as ---
(1961) Target: The Corruptors!
as ---
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Tod Macauley
(1962) The Virginian
as Johnny Wade
(1969) The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Happy
(1954) Climax!
as Sam Pryce
(1974) The Zoo Gang
as Stephen "The Fox" Halliday
(1964) Profiles in Courage
as Thomas Hart Benton
(1959) Laramie
as ---
(1972) The Brian Keith Show
as Dr. Sean Jamison
(1949) Suspense
as Johnny
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Harry
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Dave Blassingame
(1951) Tales of Tomorrow
as ---
(1961) The Wonderful World of Disney
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Alfred Freely
(1987) The Pursuit of Happiness
as ---
(1989) Heartland
as B.L. McCutcheon
(1975) Archer
as Lew Archer
(1991) Walter & Emily
as Walter Collins
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as Sgt. Patrick Cohan
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Shadrach O'Reilly
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1976) The Quest
as Tank Logan
(1955) Crusader
as Matt Anders
(1982) World War III
as Secretary General Gorny
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Choya
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as David Sutton
(1997) Rough Riders
as President William McKinley
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Sergeant Gabe Trotter
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Arnold Shawn
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Herbert Morrison
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Vernon Wedge
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Caleb McCallum
(1993) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Mullibok
(1994) Burke's Law
as Norman Hope
(1949) Suspense
as Lt. Jim Connor
(1949) Suspense
as Kip Caley
(1949) Suspense
as Idaho
(1949) Suspense
as ---
(1959) The Untouchables
as Jim Martinson
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Lue Swank
(1979) The Chisholms
as Andrew Blake
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Gen. Newmeyer
(1963) The Fugitive
as Edward Welles
(1996) Pacific Blue
as Mac McNamara
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Jim Mallory
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Mano
(1977) How the West Was Won
as General Stonecipher