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.

Filmography

• 1999Follow Your Heart — Roddy Thompson
• Rough Riders — President William McKinley
• 1997The Second Civil War — General Buford
• 1996Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story — Cardinal
• Pacific Blue — Mac McNamara
• Cybill — Arthur Minnow
• 1995National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins — 'Noble Hart' / Self
• 1995Picture Windows: Lightning — Tappan
• 1995The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A. — Pete Morgan
• 1995Walking Thunder — Narrator
• Burke's Law — Norman Hope
• Duckman — Duckman's Father (voice)
• Spider-Man — Uncle Ben (voice)
• Touched by an Angel — Leonard Pound
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Mullibok
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Del Forman
• 1993Wind Dancer — Truman Richards
• The Commish
• 1991The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw — The Westerner
• Walter & Emily — Walter Collins
• Heartland — B.L. McCutcheon
• 1989Lady in a Corner — David Henderson
• 1989Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson — Frank Wellman Sr.
• 1989Welcome Home — Harry Robins
• 1988The Passage — Byron Monroe
• 1988Young Guns — Buckshot Roberts
• 1987Death Before Dishonor — Col. Halloran
• Pursuit of Happiness
• 1987The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory — Colonel Davy Crockett
• 1986The B.R.A.T. Patrol — General Newmeyer
• Murder, She Wrote — Caleb McCallum
• Hardcastle and McCormick — Milton Hardcastle
• 1982Cry for the Strangers — Chief Whalen
• World War III — Secretary General Gorny
• 1981Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen — Police Chief Baxter
• 1981Sharky's Machine — Papa
• Power — Charles Kandell
• 1980The Mountain Men — Henry Frapp
• 1980The Silent Lovers — Mauritz Stiller
• 1979Meteor — Dr. Dubov
• The Chisholms — Andrew Blake
• The Seekers — Elijah Weatherby
• Centennial — Sheriff Axel Dumire
• 1978Hooper — Jocko Doyle
• How the West Was Won — General Stonecipher
• 1977In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan — Joe Quinlan
• 1977The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer — Allan Jacobson - Defense Attorney
• 1976Joe Panther — Capt. Harper
• 1976Nickelodeon — H.H. Cobb
• 1976The Loneliest Runner — Arnold Curtis
• 1976The Quest — Tank Logan
• The Quest — Tank Logan
• Archer — Lew Archer
• 1975The Wind and the Lion — Theodore Roosevelt
• 1974The Yakuza — George Tanner
• The Zoo Gang — Stephen "The Fox" Halliday
• 1972Second Chance — Geoff Smith
• The Brian Keith Show — Dr. Sean Jamison, Director
• 1972The Bull of the West — Johnny Wade
• 1971Scandalous John — John McCanless
• 1971Something Big — Col. Morgan
• 1970Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? — Officer Michael M. Nace
• 1970The McKenzie Break — Captain Jack Connor
• 1969Gaily, Gaily — Francis Sullivan
• 1969Krakatoa, East of Java — Connerly
• 1968With Six You Get Eggroll — Jake Iverson
• 1967Reflections in a Golden Eye — Lt. Col. Morris Langdon
• Family Affair — Bill Davis
• 1966Nevada Smith — Jonas Cord
• 1966The Rare Breed — Alexander Bowen
• 1966The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! — Police Chief Link Mattocks
• 1966The Tenderfoot — Mose Carson
• 1966Way... Way Out — Gen. 'Howling Bull' Hallenby
• 1965Johnny Shiloh — Sgt. Gabe Trotter
• 1965The Hallelujah Trail — Frank Wallingham
• 1964A Tiger Walks — Sheriff Pete Williams
• 1964Bristle Face — Lue Swank
• Profiles in Courage — Thomas Hart Benton
• 1964The Pleasure Seekers — Paul Barton
• The Tenderfoot — Mose Carson
• 1964Those Calloways — Cam Calloway
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Andy Bastian
• 1963Savage Sam — Uncle Beck Coates
• The Fugitive — Edward Welles
• The Great Adventure — Henry Bergh
• 1963The Raiders — McElroy
• 1962Moon Pilot — Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Jim Mallory
• The Virginian — Johnny Wade
• Dr. Kildare — Alfred Freely
• Target: The Corruptors!
• 1961The Deadly Companions — Yellowleg
• 1961The Parent Trap — Mitch Evers
• The Wonderful World of Disney
• Outlaws
• 1960Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
• 1960Ten Who Dared — William Dunn
• The Westerner — Dave Blassingame
• Laramie
• Rawhide — Tod Macauley
• The Untouchables — Jim Martinson
• 1959The Young Philadelphians — Mike Flanagan
• 77 Sunset Strip — Sgt. Patrick Cohan
• 1958Desert Hell — Capt. Robert Edwards
• 1958Fort Dobbs — Clett
• 1958Sierra Baron — Jack McCrackin
• 1958Villa!! — Bill Harmon
• 1958Violent Road — Mitch Barton
• 1957Appointment with a Shadow — Lt. Spencer
• 1957Chicago Confidential — Jim Fremont
• 1957Dino — Larry Sheridan
• 1957Hell Canyon Outlaws — Happy Waters
• 1957Run of the Arrow — Captain Clark
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Dave Blassingame
• 1956Nightfall — John
• 1956Storm Center — Paul Duncan
• 19555 Against the House — Brick
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Dave Rainey, Arnold Shawn, Herbert Morrison, Vernon Wedge
• Crusader — Matt Anders
• 1955The Violent Men — Cole Wilkison
• 1955Tight Spot — Vince Striker
• 1954Alaska Seas — Jim Kimmerly
• Climax! — Sam Pryce
• 1954Jivaro — Tony
• 1954Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer! — Mike Hammer
• Studio 57 — Dan, Denis Burke
• 1954The Bamboo Prison — Cpl. Brady
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Shadrach O'Reilly, Sergeant Gabe Trotter, Lue Swank, Gen. Newmeyer
• 1953Arrowhead — Capt. Bill North
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse — Joe Kelly
• The Ford Television Theatre — Dan Crawford, Mano
• 1951Fourteen Hours — Extra (uncredited)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Prosecuting Attorney
• Tales of Tomorrow
• Lux Video Theatre — Happy, Choya, David Sutton
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Harry
• Suspense — Johnny, Lt. Jim Connor, Kip Caley, Idaho
• 1947Boomerang! — Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)
• 1940Knute Rockne All American — Student at Train Station (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 1986All Star Party for Clint Eastwood — Self (uncredited)
• 1981All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds — Self
• 1975The Lion Roars Again — Self
• The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self