Ian Keith
- Birthday
- Feb 27, 1899
Bio: Tall, handsome, golden-throated leading man Ian Keith became a Broadway favorite in the 1920s. He also pursued a sporadic silent film career, appearing opposite the illustrious likes of Gloria Swanson and Lon Chaney Sr. A natural for talkies, Keith appeared in such early sound efforts as Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930) and D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930)… More Bio: Tall, handsome, golden-throated leading man Ian Keith became a Broadway favorite in the 1920s. He also pursued a sporadic silent film career, appearing opposite the illustrious likes of Gloria Swanson and Lon Chaney Sr. A natural for talkies, Keith appeared in such early sound efforts as Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930) and D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930) (in which he played John Wilkes Booth). A favorite of Cecil B. DeMille, Keith stole the show as the cultured, soft-spoken Saladin in DeMille's The Crusades (1935). A rambunctious night life and an inclination towards elbow-bending reduced Keith's stature in Hollywood, and by the mid-1940s he was occasionally obliged to appear in such cheapies as the 1946 "Bowery Boys" epic Mr. Hex. His final screen appearance was a cameo as Rameses I in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Among Ian Keith's wives was stage luminary Blanche Yurka and silent-film leading lady Ethel Clayton. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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It Came from Beneath the Sea (2007)
- Adm. Burns
- 63%
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Rameses I
- 91%
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New York Confidential (1955)
- Waluska
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Prince Of Players (1955)
- "King" in Hamlet
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The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
- Henry IV of England
- See all 41 films
Ian Keith Videos
The Ten Commandments
1 minutes 55 seconds
All This And Heaven Too
1 minutes 11 seconds
The Big Trail
1 minutes 26 seconds
The Divine Lady
30 seconds
The Sea Hawk
30 seconds
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