Biographies: Brian Keith - Actor

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American actor, born on November 14, 1921 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. He received the NSFC Award in 1968 for Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), the NYFCC Award in 1969, and the Golden Laurel Award in 1971 for The McKenzie Break (1970). He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 2008. He married actress Frances Helm ​(1948⁠–⁠1954)​, Judith Landon ​(1954⁠–⁠1969)​, with whom he had 5 kids, and Victoria Young ​(1970-1997), with whom he had 2 kids. Among his most important works are Crusader (1955), The Parent Trap (1961), and Family Affair (1966). He debuted at the age of 3 with his father in Pied Piper Malone (1924). He graduated from East Rockaway High School, New York in 1939. He worked in radio and theater before World War II, and when the war broke out, he joined the Marine Corps as a radioman and tail gunner and received several medals. He suffered from emphysema and lung cancer, and he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on June 24, 1997 in Malibu, California, USA.

• 27 February 2022
• Christina Aziz