Steven Keats

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Steven Keats (* 6. February 1945 in the Bronx , New York as Stephen Paul Keitz , † 8. May 1994 in New York City , New York) was an American actor .

life and career

Steven Keats was born in New York as Stephen Paul Keitz into a Jewish-Polish family, while his mother was a native New Yorker, his father was a native of Copenhagen . He grew up in Brooklyn and attended the New York School for the Performing Arts, an art school. After serving in the Air Force in the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1966 , he attended Montclair State College and the Yale School of Drama . In 1970 he made the understudy of Kenneth Tynan's avant-garde Reveu Oh! Calcutta! his Broadway debut.

From about 1973 Steven Keats was regularly seen in film and television productions, which, especially at the beginning of his career, often had a New York background. In one of his first film roles he played in 1974 in the vigilante justice thriller A man sees red, the son-in-law of Charles Bronson's character. The following year he starred in one of his few leading roles in Joan Micklin Silver's film Hester Street, about a Jewish family, in which Keats played a Jew assimilated in the United States. In 1977 he resigned as Israeli sidekick to Robert Shaw in Black Sunday and received for his performance in the miniseries Seventh Avenue nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series . In 1982 he played as a mad scientist the counterpart to Chuck Norris in The Dumb Monster . Overall, Keats - who embodied a relatively wide range of roles due to his versatility - increasingly shifted to guest roles in television series such as Magnum , Mord ist ihr Hobby , Das A-Team , Miami Vice and Law & Order in the course of the 1980s . His last role was in the B-thriller Vibrations, published posthumously in 1996 .

Steven Keats, father of two sons, was married three times, but all marriages ended in divorce. He was found dead in his apartment in May 1994, according to his son Thatcher, it was a suicide .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven Keats, 48, Film and TV Actor . In: The New York Times . May 18, 1994, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 20, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Steven Keats - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Steven Keats | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved March 20, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Steven Keats | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved March 20, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Steven Keats, 48, Film and TV Actor . In: The New York Times . May 18, 1994, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 20, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Keats, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keitz, Stephen Paul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1994
Place of death New York City , New York