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Occupation  Actor
Parents  Malcolm Keen
Years active  1943–1991
Spouse  Hazel Terry, Doris Groves
Name  Geoffrey Keen
Children  Mary Keen, Jemma Hyde
Role  Actor

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Born  21 August 1916 (1916-08-21) Wallingford, Berkshire, England, UK
Died  November 3, 2005, Northwood, London, United Kingdom
Movies  The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Taste the Blood of Dracula, The Living Daylights, For Your Eyes Only
Similar People  Walter Gotell, John Glen, Lewis Gilbert, Richard Maibaum, Peter Sasdy

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Geoffrey Keen (21 August 1916 – 3 November 2005) was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films.

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Early life

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Keen was born in Wallingford, Berkshire, England, the son of stage actor Malcolm Keen. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He then joined the Little Repertory Theatre in Bristol for whom he made his stage debut in 1932. After a year in repertory he stayed for a year in Cannes before being accepted for a place at the London School of Economics. In a last minute change of mind, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal after only one year. He had just joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1939 when the war started. Keen enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, though also managed to appear in an Army instructional film for Carol Reed.

Career

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Keen made his full film debut in 1946 in Riders of the New Forest but soon appeared in better known films for Reed such as: Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949). He quickly became one of the busiest character actors, typically doing five films a year. He also continued to perform on stage, for instance as Iachimo in Peter Hall's 1957 production of Cymbeline, and a sadistic Turkish General in Terence Rattigan's controversial Ross (1960).

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Keen was cast mainly as establishment figures, including ministers, senior police officers and military figures, though he also appeared in working class roles in Chance of a Lifetime (1950) and Millions Like Us (1943). He often portrayed balding, cold-hearted, and sarcastic executives or lawyers. On television, he was one of the leads in BBC TV's long-running drama about the oil industry, The Troubleshooters, between 1965 and 1972.

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On the big screen, he played the role of Frederick Gray, the Minister of Defence in six James Bond films between 1977 and 1987:

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  • The Spy Who Loved Me (in this film Bond calls him "Freddie" – in private, after the briefing at the naval base – when Gray tells him that he is to go to Egypt.)
  • Moonraker
  • For Your Eyes Only
  • Octopussy
  • A View to a Kill
  • The Living Daylights

  • He also appeared in such notable films as The Spanish Gardener, Doctor Zhivago, Cromwell, and Born Free, as well as in numerous TV programmes. He even appeared in a leading role in the Hammer Horror Film Taste the Blood of Dracula that starred Christopher Lee, playing a rather sarcastic Victorian/Edwardian gentleman who is one of a circle of three seeking wicked pleasures who betray Dracula. In all, Keen had appeared in 100 films before he retired in 1991.

    Television

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood - episode - The Wager (1956) - Blind Beggar
  • Death in Ecstasy in 1964 as Inspector Roderick Alleyn, based on the Ngaio Marsh novel.
  • The Saint - episode - The Saint Steps In (1964) - Hobart Quennel
  • Personal life and Death

    Keen was married three times had one daughter, Mary and two grandchildren, Hetty and Flora. He died in 2005 in Northwood, Middlesex and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

    References

    Geoffrey Keen Wikipedia