Barry Keegan
Born: 1922-09-12 in Dublin, Ireland
Died: 1977-09-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Barry Keegan was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Keegan began his acting career appearing in various films, such as the Stewart Granger adaptation "Footsteps in the Fog" (1955), "Satellite in the Sky" (1956) and the James Stewart suspenseful adaptation "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956). He also appeared in the thriller "The Safecracker" (1958) with Ray Milland. He kept working in film throughout the fifties and the sixties, starring in "Gideon's Day" (1959) with Jack Hawkins, "Moment of Danger" (1960) with Trevor Howard and "Gorgo" (1961). He also appeared in "King of Kings" (1961). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the dramatic adaptation "Billy Budd" (1962) with Terence Stamp, the adaptation "In Search of the Castaways" (1962) with Maurice Chevalier and the Peter Sellers comedy "The Wrong Arm of the Law" (1962). He also appeared in "A Walk With Love and Death" (1969) with Anjelica Huston. Keegan more recently acted in "Flight of the Doves" (1971).
Filmography
1973
- The MacKintosh Man as Pub Customer (uncredited)
1972
- Crown Court as William Cooke
- The Protectors as Barney Mailer
- Frenzy as Hospital Patient (uncredited)
- Full House
- Thrills Galore as Jack
1971
- The Onedin Line as M'Guire
- Justice as Sam Hardy
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Lipinzki
- Flight of the Doves as Powder
- Ireland, Mother Ireland as Fitzpatrick
1970
- Menace as O'Rourke
1969
- A Walk with Love and Death as Peasant Leader
1968
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Steve Lenihan
1965
- The Troubleshooters as Col. Grant
1964
- Theatre 625 as Larry Stormont
- The Wednesday Play as SS General Count von Helidorf
- Detective as Acton
- Redcap as Sgt Greatorex
- The July Plot as SS General Count von Helidorf
- The Summer in Gossensass as Herr Holst
1963
- Festival as Stagehand - Minister of Arts and Crafts
- The Human Jungle as Hogan
- Espionage as Carter
- Crane as Ferenc Szabo
- The Wrong Arm of the Law as Alf
- The Barber of Stamford Hill
1962
- The Saint as Martin Graham
- The Scales of Justice as Webb
- In Search of the Castaways as Irish claimant
- Billy Budd
- A Prize of Arms as Supt. Cooper
- Flat Two as Charles Berry
1961
- Sir Francis Drake as Gomez
- King of Kings as Bad Thief
- Gorgo as Mate
- Payroll as Bert Langridge
- Hand in Hand as Mr. O'Malley
- Danger! Men Working as Scanling
1960
- Danger Man as Liamond
- In the Nick as Screw Jenkins
1959
- Wrong Number as Max
1958
- Gideon's Day as Riley
1957
- The Naked Truth as 2nd Irishman (uncredited)
- Black Ice as Mick
- The Birthday Present as Junior Reception Officer (uncredited)
- The Film That Never Was
1956
- The Man Who Knew Too Much as Patterson (uncredited)
- Armchair Theatre as The Corporal
- The Long Arm as Detective Constable in Hospital Ward
- Jacqueline as Bob Quinton
- Satellite in the Sky as Lefty
1955
- Footsteps in the Fog as Constable Burke
- Above Us the Waves as Sailor on Towing Sub (uncredited)