Howard Keel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-04-13 (85 years old)

Deathday

2004-11-07

Place of Birth

Gillespie, Illinois, U.S.

Howard Keel

Biography

Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Keel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1955

Kismet

as The Poet

1963

1952

The Hoaxters

as Narrator (voice)

1950

Annie Get Your Gun

as Frank Butler

1967

The War Wagon

as Levi Walking Bear

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Fred Graham, "Petruchio"

1953

Calamity Jane

as Wild Bill Hickok

1952

Lovely to Look At

as Tony Naylor

1951

Texas Carnival

as Slim Shelby

1954

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

as Brother Adam Pontipee

1953

Ride, Vaquero!

as King Cameron

1951

Show Boat

as Gaylord Ravenal

1950

Pagan Love Song

as Hazard Endicott

1951

Callaway Went Thataway

as Stretch Barnes / Smokey Callaway

1987

Creepy Classics

as Bill Masen - (archive footage)

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as Self - Co-Host / Narrator

1958

Floods of Fear

as Donovan

1966

Waco

as 'Waco'

1967

Red Tomahawk

as Capt. Tom York

1952

Desperate Search

as Vince Heldon

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1955

1951

Three Guys Named Mike

as Mike Jamison

1968

1959

The Big Fisherman

as Simon Peter

1954

Rose Marie

as Capt. Mike Malone

1948

1951

Across the Wide Missouri

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1964

Kiss Me, Kate

as Fred Graham

1974

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage)

1961

Armored Command

as Col. Devlin

1953

Fast Company

as Rick Grayton

1994

Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is

as Capt. Quentin "Jack" Jackson

1954

Deep in My Heart

as Performer in My Maryland

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1985

That's Dancing!

as From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

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