Andrew Keir

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Andrew Keir (born April 3, 1926 in Lanarkshire , Scotland , † October 5, 1997 in London , England ; actually Andrew Buggy ) was a Scottish actor .

Life

stage

Keir, the son of a miner, had worked in a coal mine at Shotts since 1940 . In 1946 he shifted his professional focus to acting and got his first engagement at the Citizens' Theater in Glasgow . His later theater stations included u. a. the West End of London , where he was successful as Thomas Cromwell in Robert Bolt's A Man in All Seasons .

Movie

As a film actor, he made his debut in 1950 in the film The Lady Craved Excitement . Mostly he embodied powerful, hulking characters like the Duke of Argyll in Rob Roy (with Liam Neeson in the title role). He played in period films such as Cleopatra (in the role of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton ) and The Fall of the Roman Empire , war dramas such as Zeppelin (with Michael York ) and Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the Desert (about the Libyan resistance fighter of the same name ) , Adventure films like Lord Jim (with Peter O'Toole ), science fiction films like The Green Blood of the Demons (in which he replaced Brian Donlevy in the role of Prof. Bernard Quatermass) and horror films like Blood for Dracula (with Christopher Lee ) and the Bram Stoker film adaptation of The Tomb of the Bloody Mummy .

watch TV

Keir was a busy guest on television. In 1958 he played in 39 episodes of the television series Ivanhoe as Prince John, the adversary of the title hero played by Roger Moore . He received a leading role in a series in 1972 as Adam Smith , a Scottish minister who gets into a life crisis after the death of his wife and seeks the meaning of life. He also took on numerous guest roles in series such as Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , Simon Templar and Die 2 . In 1976 he played one of the leading roles alongside Sascha Hehn in the 13-part Australian television adventure series Goodbye, Charlie .

Private

Keir was married twice and had five children. His daughter Deirdre Keir works as a television producer, another daughter, Julie T. Wallace, as an actress.

His grave is in Putney Vale Cemetery in London .

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personal data
SURNAME Keir, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buggy, Andrew (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanarkshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1997
Place of death London , England