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Jane Keckley

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Occupation
  
Actress

Spouse
  
Roy Watson (m. ?–1937)

Role
  
Actress


Name
  
Jane Keckley

Years active
  
1916–1942

Children
  
Leonide Watson

Born
  
September 10, 1876 (
1876-09-10
)
Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Died
  
August 14, 1963, South Pasadena, California, United States

Movies
  
Roarin' Lead, Conspiracy, Murder on the Campus, Lightning Carson Rides Ag, Huck and Tom

Similar People
  
Sam Newfield, William Desmond Taylor, Richard Thorpe, Michael Winner, William C deMille

Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963) was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras.

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Biography

Keckley began her acting career in film "shorts" during the 1910s. Her first feature film was 1915's The Circular Staircase (under the name Jane Watson). In her twenty-five year career, she would appear in over 90 films, as well as dozens of shorts. She would appear as a supporting actress in such films as: William Desmond Taylor's Huck and Tom (1918); the 1936 version of Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne and Allan Jones; and Magnificent Obsession (1935), starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.

She was under contract to Paramount in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where she appeared in her final film, South of Santa Fe (1942), starring Roy Rogers. Keckley would die on August 14, 1963.

Filmography

(Per AFI database)

References

Jane Keckley Wikipedia


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