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Howard Keel

Actor

Howard Keel

Born April 13, 1919 in Gillespie, Illinois, U.S.Died November 7, 200430 films

Howard Keel (born Harold Clifford Keel; April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich baritone singing voice.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers posterFirst watchSeven Brides for Seven Brothers19547.1as Brother Adam PontipeeIn 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.View film

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Filmography

30 films as actor
  1. 1994Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart IsCapt. Quentin "Jack" Jackson
  2. 1984Royal Variety Performance 1984
  3. 1968Arizona BushwhackersLee Travis
  4. 1967The War WagonLevi Walking Bear
  5. 1967Red TomahawkCapt. Tom York
  6. 1966Waco'Waco'
  7. 1964Kiss Me, KateFred Graham
  8. 1963The Day of the TriffidsBill Masen
  9. 1961Armored CommandCol. Devlin
  10. 1959The Big FishermanSimon Peter
  11. 1958Floods of FearDonovan
  12. 1955KismetThe Poet
  13. 1955Jupiter's DarlingHannibal
  14. 1954Deep in My HeartPerformer (segment "My Maryland")
  15. 1954Seven Brides for Seven BrothersBrother Adam Pontipee
  16. 1954Rose MarieCapt. Mike Malone
  17. 1953Kiss Me KateFred Graham, "Petruchio"
  18. 1953Calamity JaneWild Bill Hickok
  19. 1953Ride, Vaquero!King Cameron
  20. 1953Fast CompanyRick Grayton
  21. 1952Desperate SearchVince Heldon
  22. 1952Lovely to Look AtTony Naylor
  23. 1951Callaway Went ThatawayStretch Barnes / Smoky Callaway
  24. 1951Across the Wide MissouriNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
  25. 1951Texas CarnivalSlim Shelby
  26. 1951Show BoatGaylord Ravenal
  27. 1951Three Guys Named MikeMike Jamison
  28. 1950Pagan Love SongHazard Endicott
  29. 1950Annie Get Your GunFrank Butler
  30. 1948The Small VoiceBoke