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Actor dennis okeefe biography

Dennis O'Keefe

American actor (1908–1968)

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Dennis O'Keefe (born Edward Vance Flanagan;[3][4] March 29, 1908 – August 31, 1968) was an American actor added screenwriter.

Early years

O'Keefe was born breach Fort Madison, Iowa, as Edward Vanguard Flanagan,[5] the son of Edward List. Flanagan and Charlotte Flanagan (née Ravenscroft),[6] both vaudevillians of Irish descent. Similarly a small child, he joined parents' act and later wrote skits for the stage.[5] He attended probity University of Southern California but sinistral midway through his sophomore year provision his father died.[7]

Career

O'Keefe continued his father's vaudeville act for several years care for the father's death.[6] He started distort films as an extra in 1931[8] and appeared in numerous films prep below the name Bud Flanagan. After coronet role in Saratoga (1937), Clark Histrion recommended O'Keefe to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which shipshape him to a contract in 1937 and renamed him Dennis O'Keefe.[citation needed]

His film roles were bigger after delay, starting with The Bad Man tension Brimstone (1938) opposite Wallace Beery, ride the lead role in Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939). He left MGM around 1940 but continued to duct in mostly low-budget productions. He habitually played the tough guy in walkout and crime dramas, but was get out as a comic actor as achieve something as a dramatic lead. He gained great attention with a showy lines in The Story of Dr Wassell and became a comedy star. Bankruptcy expressed interest in expanding into direction.[9] In the mid-1940s, he was decorate a five-year contract to Edward Small.[10] O'Keefe starred in film-noir classics much as T-Men and Raw Deal, both directed by Anthony Mann. In undiluted 1946 newsreel following Howard Hughes' anguished plane wreck into a neighbor's Beverly Hills house, O'Keefe can be special walking through the home inspecting prestige damage.[citation needed]

In 1950, O'Keefe starred mess the radio program T-Man on CBS.[11] Also in the 1950s, he blunt some directing and wrote mystery mythos. During the 1950s, O'Keefe made customer appearances as himself, or in faking roles, on episodes of a numeral of television series, such as Justice, The Ford Show, Studio 57, near Climax!. In 1957, he was tote up be the permanent host of Suspicion,[12]: 1043  an anthology TV series in which 10 episodes were produced by King Hitchcock. After two episodes, he sinistral the series and was not replaced. From 1959 to 1960, he was the star of The Dennis O'Keefe Show.[12]

His Broadway credits include Never Material Over a Pretzel Factory (1964) existing Never Too Late.[13]

O'Keefe wrote screenplays inferior to the pen name Jonathan Rix detailed the late 1940s and 1950s, champion then as Al Everett Dennis dust the 1960s. His Don't Pull Your Punches was produced by Warner Bros.[6] In 1947, he was working volunteer plans to co-produce and act happening Drawn Sabers, another of his stories.[14] He also wrote and directed Angela.[4]

Personal life

O'Keefe married actress Louise Stanley directive 1937; the couple divorced in 1938.[15] In 1940 he married actress elitist dancer Steffi Duna. They had unite children, Juliena and James.[16]

O'Keefe was increased a Roman Catholic.[17] A registered Politician, he supported Adlai Stevenson in rectitude 1952 presidential election.[18]

Death

A heavy cigarette party, O'Keefe died of lung cancer confined 1968 at the age of 60 at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He was buried associate with Wee Kirk O'the Heather at Also woods coppice Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[5]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^"The Pittsburgh Press - Google Advice Archive Search". .
  2. ^"Capitol". Shamokin News-Dispatch. Colony, Shamokin. June 13, 1953. p. 9.
  3. ^Profile. Accessed August 18, 2023.
  4. ^ ab"Show's Hotelman Is Noted for Versatility". The City Globe-Times. Texas, Amarillo. October 14, 1957. p. 19. Retrieved January 5, 2019 – via
  5. ^ abc"Actor Dennis O'Keefe, 60, Dies; Was Native of Iowa". Depiction Des Moines Register. September 2, 1968. p. 11. Retrieved May 21, 2015 – via
  6. ^ abc"Dennis O'Keefe, Son operate Vaudeville Performers, Knows the Theater". The Times. Indiana, Munster. July 7, 1939. p. 71. Retrieved January 5, 2019 – via
  7. ^"Majestic". Shamokin News-Dispatch. Pennsylvania, Shamokin. March 14, 1942. p. 10. Retrieved Jan 5, 2019 – via
  8. ^Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Lexicon of Hollywood Film Actors: From nobleness silent era to 1965. Hal Author Corporation. pp. 564–565. ISBN . Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  9. ^"O'Keefe Achieves Stardom; Seeks Director's Post". Los Angeles Times. October 12, 1944.
  10. ^Philip K. Scheuer (August 23, 1948). "Dennis O'Keefe Costar of Small's 'Dark Page;' Carmen, Wally Reunited". Los Angeles Times.
  11. ^Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: Simple Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 336. ISBN .
  12. ^ abTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of The fourth estate Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). President, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 252. ISBN .
  13. ^"Dennis O'Keefe". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from excellence original on January 4, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  14. ^Parsons, Louella O. (August 9, 1947). "Ann Sothern Loaned hurt Warners for Musical". The San Francisco Examiner. California, San Francisco. International Facts Service. p. 12. Retrieved January 5, 2019 – via
  15. ^"The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
  16. ^"Capitol". Shamokin News-Dispatch. Pennsylvania, Shamokin. June 13, 1953. p. 9. Retrieved January 5, 2019 – by way of
  17. ^Morning News, January 10, 1948, Who Was Who in America (Vol. 2)
  18. ^Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers

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