I recently read an article interview with Lee Meriwether. She was a dear friend to Brian Keith until his death and she said she knows that Brian did not off himself and that it just wasn't in him to do that. She is positive that the gun incident was an accident. Rest in peace Dear Brian ❤🕊
I had no idea his Step Mother was the lady who jumped from the Hollywood sign 😮 I loved watching him on Family Affair too. Great show. He truly did have a sad 😔 ending. 😢
Read the story years ago about the young lady who leaped to her death under the Hollywood sign. Had no idea it was his stepmom. Always thought he was a good actor. Grew up watching Family Affair.
Her actual named was Millicent ' Peg ' Entwistle and she was a stage actress who inspired Bette Davis to become an actress when she saw Peg in a play called The Wild Duck when she was 17 and was so impressed by Peg that Bette told her mother I want to a great actress like Peg and she was. 😳😊
Loved that man! Parent Trap is one of my all time fave films because of the easy going dad he was in it, and Haley and Maureen’s roles as well. A great and inspiring movie, and a sweet, genuine man who is missed. 😢❤❤❤
So sorry to hear how he died...i had a crush on him for years...what a great actor!...My favourite was A family affair..never missed an episode...Rest Easy Brian you've earned it..🙏🥀
He played Teddy Roosevelt in “The Wind and The Lion” with Sean Connery. I liked all his work and didn’t realize how prolific he was until this video. Thanks!
Such a terribly sad ending! Towards the end of his life, he remarked that cancer treatment hurt more than the cancer itself and there was only so much suffering he could reasonably endure. Losing his daughter, Daisy, some two months before only added to his already suffering. Brian Keith was a remarkably talented man whose legancy lives on in our hearts & in our memories!
He was a great actor, imagine the feeling of being sick with cancer and knowing your daughter took her own life, can't say I would blame anyone for speeding things up.
I loved him since The Parent Trap. Family Affair and Hardcastle and McCormick only made me love him more. I think of him as dying from a broken heart 💔. R.I.P.
If memory serves he was also in a film with Fred Dreyer titled Death Before Dishonor. In this case I think you are right in saying it was a sad ending. May he rest in peace.
This was so interesting. I didn't realize how many different movies and television shows where he appeared. I remember watching family affair as a young child and growing up with it. Brian Keith was quite the prolific actor. Thank you for bringing us this video
"Keith's friend Maureen O'Hara did not believe Keith died as a result of suicide. She stated that he had a large gun collection and he might have been cleaning the gun, or looking at it, when it went off accidentally. She had just visited him and said he was in good spirits and would not have committed suicide given his Catholic beliefs."
Amazingly, his onetime colleague Johnny Whitaker has claimed that a few days after Mr. Keith's death, Mr. Whitaker lost control of his car and at that moment he heard the voice of Mr. Keith yell 'Johnny! Duck! Cover! Roll' and Mr. Whitaker DID that and survived despite the top half of his car being sheered off,etc.
There was a lot of sad endings related to 'Family Affair.' Especially that of Anissa Jones. Family Affair was "must see TV" in our household, growing up.
Yes, he offered her an acting part on his new program several years after Family Affair ended. She turned it down and soon after she died from an overdose. Anissa was so sweet. Very sad ending for such a talented girl.
Hi Steve! Yes, I remember Brian Keith quite well...I, too was a huge fan of the sitcom, "Family Affair." Thanks for the information about Brian Keith. 😊
I will always remember him as being in the first episode of The Fugitive TV series with David Janssen. I also noted seeing him as you have said in a number of other roles that he played in other program series. Very sad about his daughter and him and how they perished!
Recently I've been watching Family Affair again on one of the local channels. I had forgotten just how much I've always liked Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot as well. For a bachelor, he always seemed to know how to handle a problem that the kids were having! Losing a child is such an awful thing to have happen.
Thanks for doing this video. I too grew up watching “ Family Affair “ and enjoyed seeing Brian Keith in many films and TV shows: I especially loved his character in “ The Hallelujah Trail”. I was saddened when he committed suicide and always wondered why;thanks for answering that sad question for me.
As a kid I really enjoyed watching Brian in all the shows he was in. He just seemed to be in every where and in so many TV shows. He was actually a really good actor..any role he played you truly believed he was the character. He still lived a good life, even though it ended in tragedy.
A loveable human being let alone , actor. I too enjoyed Brian in the many roles. So sad to have lost his daughter. It must have been too much for him to take and who could blame him. Many thanks for this presentation. I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for the profile of one of my favorite actors from my childhood! "Family Affair" was one of my favorite TV shows. His father, Robert Keith was a well-known film and TV actor as well!
I always enjoyed watching Brian Keith in all of his movies. I especially liked him in the one of tge very first episodes of The Fugitive and Family Affair. He always expressed patience and compassion in that series.
The story really hits at home he was a great actor and we loved his movies especially my parents.. they actually named my brother.. Brian Keith after him..... RIP Sir. 🙏❤️
Brian Keith was a rare breed of actors that seamlessly went from movies to TV and back to television . . . as that was an era where there were strong divides between those that worked in TV and those that did theatrical movies. Movie producers were reluctant to hire TV actors; while movie actors considered TV work a 'step-down' in their professional careers.
I loved Brian Keith. He was a somewhat underrated actor. I don’t think he got the kudos he deserved. I loved him especially in Hardcastle and McCormick. One of my favourite actors. I as so sad when he died. Rest in peace Brian xx
My favorite Brian Kieth moment was on "A Family Affair". Buffy and Jody, his young niece and nephew, were befriended by some kids in a very poor neighborhood. Uncle Bill (Keith) was a wealthy man, so when he went to the slum to retrieve Buffy and Jody, he was surprised to find them scruffed-up and dirtier than any of the kids who lived in the poor neighborhood! They were so dirty that one of the parents of the poor neighborhood kids (who didn't know Buffy and Jody's uncle was rich) gave Uncle Bill some hand-me-down children's clothes so that he could dress Buffy and Jody better. The LOOK on Uncle Bill's face as he humbly accepted the charity clothing without letting on that he was a wealthy resident of a FAR more upscale neighborhood...
You and I both.I never missed an episode of family affair either.I love the show And he was a wonderful actor unique with that special quality I was sad when he died. Especially in the way he did. But you sharing the story about his daughter?It says a lot
How sad that his daughter’s choice to unalive herself was a decision that would pretty much end up taking the life of her father too. Because he most likely wouldn’t have unalived himself without her doing it first.
When kids grow up in families where suicide was the way out for somd, they learn that this is the way out. I agree with Dr Phil who says "You Learn What You Have Lived." His stepmother took her life. His daughter knew this so this was her way out of whatever she couldn't deal with. Brian took his life because it was something he learned also. Sad.
I love this podcast. Nothing grisly and not trying to dig up any dirt. Just nice bios about famous people. Thank you. It's nice to read about famous people without all the sensationalism.
I met Brian Keith back in the 1970s when I was the property manager of a small neighborhood of apartments in Waikiki called The Shady Lane Apartments. He parked in frontof my apartment and I noticed him and said Hello! We shared a joint on my porch stoop and I miss him!
He is a favorite of mine. When I was little I watched Family Affair. He played a very good, Teddy Roosevelt in the Sean Connery movie, The Wind and The Lion. I was very sad when he died. I have been watching Family Affair on a retro channel we have. Tubi has it in their On Demand shows.
In the early 1960`s Brian Keith had a TV show entitled " The Westerner". It was a very good and unusual Western for the early Sixties , but unfortunately it wasn`t on for very long. I was always a big fan of Brian Keith !!
Family Affair, of course! I grew up watching all the first-run episodes, and have enjoyed the reruns many times. BUT! I also really enjoyed his Sheriff Axel Dumire character in the James Michener’s Centennial TV mini-series.
You ain't never gonna die Holmes! I remember family affair way back in the day. I don't know if people are aware of this but sissy is in a clear captions commercial that's on just about every night. It's like a phone for hearing impaired people.
Yea great movie, his character reminds me of Will Geer helping Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson Both befriended the main characters. The scene where he remembers Max Sand and is calling his name got me worried he was going to blow his cover. lol 😆
As a kid I remember watching Family Affair starring him and Sebastian Cabot with the kids. He played in a lot of movies that I watched over the years. Very sad ending for him. RIP.
He was a good actor & sad that his life had to end this way . Sometimes life just crushes you till you have no more will to live . He went thru a lot of heartache on top of his own medical issues. Didn’t know Peg Entwhistle was his step mother ! May he RIP 🕊️✨🕯️❤
Hardcastle and McCormick! I was kind of stuck watching it because we didn't have cable, just VHF & UHF channels. Lol. And they were the re-runs/syndication. I grew to like it a lot. I vividly remember hearing of his suicide when it happened. So sad. He was a very talented actor. It's a shame when Keith and others who are in constant physical and/or mental/emotional pain feel so helpless and hopeless that the only way they can escape such feelings and end their suffering is to take the drastic step of taking their own lives. RIP, Brian Keith.
Very nice tribute. One of my favorite Hitchcock episodes was when Brian Keith was confined to an iron lung in "No Pain". Anissa Jones was a fellow Class of '76 student, but upon getting her money, didn't last that summer. John Byner did a great Uncle Bill impression.
So sorry for this man who had terminal cancer and lost a daughter to suicide, he commits suicide as well. I wish people would consider the rest of the family before doing such a thing. At the very least say your goodbyes. Much love to you Betty.❤
Thank you so much for letting us know why he committed suicide. I never knew how sick he was and can now kind of understand why her chose to go that route, especially after losing a daughter like he did. God bless both their souls. ❤️🙏🏼❤️
He seemed to be a nice guy everybody liked, I didn't know about his kiddo and thought it was just about the cancer. Annisa and Sebastion had sad endings.
Brian Keith was a remarkable man and an accomplished actor. He had so much tragedy to deal with in his life. The final straw was his daughters death. Hopefully, he's at peace now.
BRIAN KEITH WAS A TERRIFIC ACTOR. HE DID FILMS AND TELEVISION. I LIKED HIM IN HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK. VERY SORRY THAT HE TOOKED HIS OWN LIFE, SUFFERING FROM 2 CANCERS, PLUS LOSING HIS DAUGHTER VERY SAD, RIP MR. BRIAN KEITH🙏
Loved him in Parent Trap. You gotta be a good actor too if,playing a villian,like in a Laramie episode,you can really want him to get whooped. I remember hearing of his death but didn't know some personal background presented here. 😢 Thanks "Hardcase" for sharing your talent😊😊😊
Very sad when he took his own life, but I understand him not being able to go on without his daughter. I don't like when people have to live their life in misery... and I won't judge either. He was a great actor and I used to watch Family Affair all the time when I was in grade school. I thought he was wonderful in the original "Parent Trap".
