Keenan Wynn ( English Keenan Wynn , July 27, 1916 - October 14, 1986 ) is an American character actor . Despite the fact that he rarely had to play major roles, he gained fame thanks to expressive roles in cinema and on TV.
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| Birth name | Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn |
| Date of Birth | July 27, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
| Date of death | October 14, 1986 (aged 70) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | actor |
| Career | 1934 - 1986 |
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The Early Years and Early Careers
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremy Keenan Wynn was born in New York in the family of a comedian , vaudeville actor, a Jewish man, Ed Wynn and his wife, an Irish Catholic, Hilda. Francis borrowed his pseudonym from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, an actor from Broadway , who became one of the first stars in Hollywood .
Personal life and recent years
Wynn was married to former actress Eve Lynn Abbott (1914–2004) before their divorce in 1947, after which Abbott married actor Van Johnson. Their one son, actor and writer Ned Wynn (née Edmond Keenan Wynn) wrote autobiographical memoirs, “We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills.” His second son, Tracy Keenan Wynn, is a screenwriter. His daughter Hilda was married to Paul Williams.
In the last years of his life he was engaged in charity work. Over the past few years, Wynn suffered from pancreatic cancer, from which he died in 1986. His remains were buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery .
Selected Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | f | Somewhere I'll find you | ... | ... |
| 1943 | f | The Lost Angel | Lost angel | ... |
| 1944 | f | Ever since you left | Since You Went Away | ... |
| 1945 | f | Without love | Without love | ... |
| 1945 | f | Weekend in Waldorf | Week-End at the Waldorf | ... |
| 1946 | f | Cross-eyed miracle | The cockeyed miracle | ... |
| 1946 | f | Easy to Wed | Easy to wed | ... |
| 1947 | f | Traders | The hucksters | ... |
| 1947 | f | Song of the Thin Man | Song of the thin man | ... |
| 1948 | f | Three Musketeers | The three musketeers | Planchet |
| 1950 | f | Annie Get Your Gun | Annie get your gun | ... |
| 1951 | f | Royal wedding | Royal wedding | Irving Klinger / Edgar Klinger |
| 1952 | f | Phone call from a stranger | Phone Call from a Stranger | Eddie hawk |
| 1953 | f | Kiss me, Kate | Kiss Me Kate | ... |
| 1954 | f | Long, long trailer | The Long, Long Trailer | ... |
| 1955 | f | Crystal slipper | The glass slipper | ... |
| 1956 | f | Man in a gray flannel suit. | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | sergeant caesar gardell |
| 1957 | f | Don't come near water | Don't go near the water | ... |
| 1958 | f | Time to love and time to die | A time to love and a time to die | Reuter |
| 1958 | f | Such a woman | That kind of woman | Harry Corwin |
| 1959 | f | A hole in the head | A hole in the head | Jerry Marx |
| 1961 | f | Frozen Professor | The absent-minded professor | Alonzo Hawke |
| 1963 | f | Son of clubber | Son of flubber | Alonzo Hawke |
| 1964 | f | Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Afraid and Loved the Bomb | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Colonel Bet Guano |
| 1965 | f | Big races | The great race | Hezekaya |
| 1967 | f | Battle wagon | The war wagon | Wes Fletcher |
| 1967 | f | Point blank shot | Point blank | Yost |
| 1968 | f | Rainbow Finian | Finian's rainbow | ... |
| 1968 | f | Once Upon a Time in the Wild West | C'era una volta il West | ... |
| 1968 | f | Mackenna Gold | Mackenna's gold | Sanchez |
| 1970 | f | Be in love | Loving | Edward |
| 1971 | f | Pretty girls, stand in a row | Pretty Maids All in a Row | John Podalsky |
| 1972 | f | Mechanic (film, 1972) | The mechanic | Harry Mackin |
| 1974 | f | Herbie on the go again | Herbie rides again | Alonzo Hawke |
| 1975 | f | Nashville | Nashville | ... |
| 1976 | f | Shaggy prosecutor | The shaggy da | John slade |
| 1976 | f | Death among icebergs | Orca | Novak |
| 1978 | f | Laser blast | Laserblast | ... |
| 1978 | f | Piranha | Piranha | Jack |
| 1980 | f | Better say what you want | Just Tell Me What You Want | Seymour Berger |
| 1982 | mf | Last unicorn | The last unicorn | ... |
| 1986 | f | Black Moon Rise | Black moon rising | Iron john |
| 1986 | f | The Superintelligent: People from Another Planet | Hyper Sapien: People From Another Star | Grandfather |
Links
- Wynn, Keenan on the Internet Broadway Database