Robert Emmett Keane
Biography
Robert Emmett Keane was one of Hollywood's more overworked character players to be found near the bottom of the credit list. An ex-vaudevillian, he appeared on Broadway from as early as 1914 and at the London Hippodrome two years later, invariably specialising in musicals and comedies. Keane did not enter films until 1929, but thereafter amassed an impressive record of almost 200 screen appearances, often for the smaller studios like RKO, Columbia and Monogram. A natural farceur with immaculate attire and trademark toothbrush moustache, he turned up in an assortment of roles ranging from timid clerks to dignified hotel managers, jewellers, headwaiters, judges and pathologists. In addition, he had a nice sideline in crooked defense attorneys, drunks and conmen, his expressive features equally adept at conveying befuddlement, querulousness or exasperation. The congenial Keane remained gainfully employed until his retirement in 1958.
98years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 11
- Career span
- 11 years1938 to 1949
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First role
Keane's first Broadway appearance came in The Passing Show of 1914, the production that began his stage career in the 1910s.
A first
Keane started making films in 1930. During that career, which lasted twenty-five years, he was in somewhere between 170 and 200 films.
Robert Emmett Keane movies on Netflix
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Sam Wood directed two of these films. Nine actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Sam WoodDirector, 2 films, 1941 to 1944
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Also two films together3 more actors
- Matt McHughThe Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Primrose Path (1940)
- Charles IrwinThe Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942) and The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
- Marjorie WeaverThe Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942) and Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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