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Ian Keith
Born
Keith Ross
(1899-02-27 ) February 27, 1899Died March 26, 1960(1960-03-26) (aged 61 )
New York City, U.S.
Occupation Actor Years active 1924–1959 Spouses
(m. 1922; div. 1926)
(m. 1928; div. 1931)
(m. 1932; div. 1934)
(m. 1936)
Ian Keith (born Keith Ross ; February 27, 1899 – March 26, 1960) was an American actor.
Early years
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts , Keith grew up in Chicago. He was educated at the Francis Parker School there and played Hamlet in a school production at age 16.[1]
Career
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Keith was a veteran character actor of the stage, and appeared in a variety of colorful roles in silent features of the 1920s.
In 1919, as Keith Ross, he acted with the Copley Repertory Theatre in Boston.[2] The Andersonville Trial (1959), Edwin Booth (1958), Saint Joan (1956), Touchstone (1953), The Leading Lady (1948), A Woman's a Fool - to Be Clever (1938), Robin Landing (1937), King Richard II (1937), Best Sellers (1933), Hangman's Whip (1933), Firebird (1932), Queen Bee (1929), The Command Performance (1928), The Master of the Inn (1925), Laugh, Clown, Laugh! (1923), As You Like It (1923), The Czarina (1922), and The Silver Fox (1921).[3]
Keith in 1925
He played John Wilkes Booth in D. W. Griffith 's first sound film, Abraham Lincoln Raoul Walsh 's 1930 widescreen western The Big Trail John Wayne . In 1932, Cecil B. DeMille cast him in The Sign of the Cross Augustus ) in Cleopatra —in major and minor screen fare for the next three decades.
He became one of DeMille's favorites, appearing in many of the producer's epic films. He portrayed Count de Rochefort in both the 1935 version and the 1948 remake of The Three Musketeers . In the 1940s he became even busier, working primarily in "B" features and westerns and alternating between playing good guys (a chief of detectives in The Payoff , a friendly hypnotist in Mr. Hex , a blowhard politician in She Gets Her Man ) and bad guys (a murder suspect in The Chinese Cat , a crooked lawyer in Bowery Champs , a swindler in Singing on the Trail ). He appeared in a supporting role to Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
He played tough-guy military roles, such as Admiral Burns in Robert Gordon 's sci-fi epic, It Came From Beneath the Sea
He also appeared on many television episodes in the 1950s, including starring in the premiere episode of The Nash Airflyte Theater [4] Shakespeare role, when he made a cameo appearance as the Ghost opposite Richard Burton 's Hamlet in a sequence from the Edwin Booth biopic Prince of Players The Ten Commandments Ramses I .
Keith played Emmett Dayton in the radio soap opera Girl Alone [5]
Keith died in Medical Arts Hospital in New York on March 26, 1960,[6] [7]
Marriages
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Blanche Yurka [8]
Ethel Clayton [7]
Fern Andra[7]
Hildegarde Pabst[7] [9]
Partial filmography
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Her Love Story
Christine of the Hungry Heart
Love's Wilderness
Enticement
My Son
The Talker
The Tower of Lies
The Greater Glory
The Lily (1926) as George Arnaud
Prince of Tempters
The Truthful Sex
The Love of Sunya
What Every Girl Should Know
Convoy
Two Arabian Knights
A Man's Past
The Street of Illusion
The Lookout Girl
The Divine Lady
Prisoners
Light Fingers
The Great Divide
Prince of Diamonds
Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth
The Big Trail
The Boudoir Diplomat
A Tailor Made Man
The Sin Ship
The Phantom of Paris
Susan Lenox
The Deceiver
The Sign of the Cross Tigellinus
Queen Christina Magnus
Dangerous Corner
Cleopatra Octavian
The Crusades Saladin - Sultan of Islam
The Three Musketeers de Rochefort
Don't Gamble with Love
The Preview Murder Mystery
Mary of Scotland James Stuart - Earl of Moray
White Legion
The Buccaneer Senator Crawford
Comet Over Broadway
The Sea Hawk
All This, and Heaven Too
Remember Pearl Harbor
Fall In
The Payoff
The Sundown Kid
Corregidor
Wild Horse Stampede
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Five Graves to Cairo
That Nazty Nuisance
The Man from Thunder River
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Here Comes Kelly
Casanova in Burlesque
Arizona Whirlwind
The Chinese Cat
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Bowery Champs
Under Western Skies
Fog Island
Identity Unknown
Phantom of the Plains
Song of Old Wyoming
The Spanish Main
Northwest Trail
Valley of the Zombies
Singing on the Trail
The Strange Woman
Mr. Hex
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Border Feud
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Nightmare Alley
Forever Amber
The Three Musketeers
The Black Shield of Falworth King Henry IV
Prince of Players Ghost of Hamlet's Father in 'Hamlet'
New York Confidential
It Came from Beneath the Sea
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Duel on the Mississippi
The Ten Commandments Rameses I (final film)
References
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^ "Ian Keith" . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League. Archived from the original on June 20, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
^ Lohman, Sidney (September 17, 1950). "News of TV and Radio" . The New York Times . p. 119. ProQuest 111657008 . Retrieved April 7, 2021 .
^ Fairfax, Arthur (December 28, 1940). "Mr. Fairfax Replies" (PDF) . Movie Radio Guide . 10 12 ): 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2015 .
^ "Actor Ian Keith, 61, Dies in New York" . The Tennessean . Tennessee, Nashville. March 27, 1960. p. 67 . Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
^ a b c d Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7 . Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
^ "Ian Keith Ross Pleads Divorce From His Wife" . The Sacramento Bee . California, Sacramento. Associated Press. July 8, 1925. p. 14 . Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "14 Jun 1936, 37 - Daily News at Newspapers.com" . Newspapers.com . Retrieved September 22, 2021 .
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