Brian Keith

Career timeline

1. 1921 · Born

   Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

2. 1947 · Screen debut

   Boomerang! (Movie)

3. 1972 · Directing debut

   The Brian Keith Show (TV)

4. 1984 · Breakthrough

   Murder, She Wrote (TV)

5. 1997 · Latest release

   Rough Riders (TV)

6. 1997 · Died

   June 24, 1997

Career in numbers

2 1940s

20 1950s

14 1960s

13 1970s

8 1980s

10 1990s

• Drama40
• Western16
• Comedy14
• Crime13
• Mystery10
• Action & Adventure7

Highest-rated title Spider-Man 1994 8.3 Most popular title Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1993 7.9

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Brian Keith in our catalogue.

Buzz Kulik

6 titles together

Robert Douglas

4 titles together

Sydney Pollack

4 titles together

Ted Post

4 titles together

Fielder Cook

3 titles together

Norman Lloyd

3 titles together

Abner Biberman

3 titles together

Jack Arnold

3 titles together

Sean Connery

2 titles together

Gary Nelson

2 titles together

1. 1997 Rough Riders as President William McKinley 6.2 TV
2. 1995 Walking Thunder as Narrator Movie
3. 1995 Cybill as Arthur Minnow 6.0 TV
4. 1994 Spider-Man as Uncle Ben (voice) 8.3 TV
5. 1994 Touched by an Angel as Leonard Pound 7.2 TV
6. 1994 Duckman as Duckman's Father (voice) 7.3 TV
7. 1994 Burke's Law as Norman Hope TV
8. 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Mullibok 7.9 TV
9. 1991 Walter & Emily as Walter Collins TV
10. 1991 The Commish 7.3 TV
11. 1989 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson as Frank Wellman Sr. Movie
12. 1988 Young Guns as Buckshot Roberts 6.7 Movie
13. 1984 Murder, She Wrote as Caleb McCallum 7.5 TV
14. 1983 Hardcastle and McCormick as Milton Hardcastle 6.5 TV
15. 1982 World War III as Secretary General Gorny TV
16. 1981 Sharky's Machine as Papa 6.2 Movie
17. 1980 The Mountain Men as Henry Frapp 5.9 Movie
18. 1980 Power as Charles Kandell TV
19. 1979 Meteor as Dr. Dubov 5.2 Movie
20. 1979 The Seekers as Elijah Weatherby TV
21. 1979 The Chisholms as Andrew Blake TV
22. 1978 Centennial as Sheriff Axel Dumire 7.7 TV
23. 1978 Hooper as Jocko Doyle 6.3 Movie
24. 1977 How the West Was Won as General Stonecipher 7.0 TV
25. 1976 Nickelodeon as H.H. Cobb 5.9 Movie
26. 1976 The Quest as Tank Logan TV
27. 1975 The Wind and the Lion as Theodore Roosevelt 6.5 Movie
28. 1975 Archer as Lew Archer TV
29. 1974 The Yakuza as George Tanner 7.1 Movie
30. 1972 The Brian Keith Show as Dr. Sean Jamison TV
31. 1971 Something Big as Col. Morgan 5.4 Movie
32. 1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye as Lt. Col. Morris Langdon 6.5 Movie
33. 1966 Family Affair as Bill Davis 6.7 TV
34. 1966 Nevada Smith as Jonas Cord 6.7 Movie
35. 1966 The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! as Police Chief Link Mattocks 6.5 Movie
36. 1965 The Hallelujah Trail as Frank Wallingham 6.1 Movie
37. 1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre as Andy Bastian TV
38. 1963 The Great Adventure as Henry Bergh TV
39. 1963 The Fugitive as Edward Welles 7.3 TV
40. 1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Jim Mallory 7.9 TV
41. 1962 Moon Pilot as Maj. Gen. John M. Vanneman 5.5 Movie
42. 1961 Target: The Corruptors! TV
43. 1961 The Wonderful World of Disney TV
44. 1961 The Parent Trap as Mitch Evers 7.0 Movie
45. 1960 The Westerner as Dave Blassingame TV
46. 1959 The Untouchables as Jim Martinson 8.1 TV
47. 1959 Laramie TV
48. 1959 Rawhide as Tod Macauley 7.3 TV
49. 1958 77 Sunset Strip as Sgt. Patrick Cohan 7.2 TV
50. 1958 Desert Hell as Capt. Robert Edwards Movie
51. 1956 Nightfall as John 6.9 Movie
52. 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Dave Blassingame TV
53. 1955 Crusader as Matt Anders TV
54. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Dave Rainey 7.8 TV
55. 1955 The Violent Men as Cole Wilkison 6.4 Movie
56. 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney as Shadrach O'Reilly 7.9 TV
57. 1954 Climax! as Sam Pryce TV
58. 1954 Studio 57 TV
59. 1953 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Joe Kelly TV
60. 1953 Arrowhead as Capt. Bill North 6.1 Movie
61. 1952 The Ford Television Theatre as Dan Crawford TV
62. 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prosecuting Attorney TV
63. 1951 Tales of Tomorrow TV
64. 1951 Fourteen Hours as Extra (uncredited) 7.2 Movie
65. 1950 Lux Video Theatre as Happy TV
66. 1949 Suspense as Johnny TV
67. 1947 Boomerang! as Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited) 7.0 Movie

1. 1972 The Brian Keith Show TV

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