Geoffrey Keen
It isn't the easiest job in the world to rein in its sexiest super-spy, but for 10 years, as Sir Frederick Gray, Great Britain's Minister of Defence, the actor Geoffrey Keen held just that job. In fact, Keen held his post even as shifts in the political landscape deposed his real-life counterparts between 007 flicks. The baton between James Bonds even switched hands during Keen's tenure; the actor went from scolding the smooth operator Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me" to tempering Timothy Dalton in "The Living Daylights." But, by the time Gray resigned from MI6, having done the long-lasting franchise a good six films' worth of service, the actor had already amassed a considerable opus in his career as a "civilian." He'd joined the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company the same year that England entered World War II, and there wasn't much time before his focus shifted to the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he embarked on his movie career and turned up in three of Carol Reed's most fondly remembered features: "Odd Man Out," "The Fallen Idol," and the peerless Orson Welles classic "The Third Man." For seven years, he played one of the lead characters on "The Troubleshooters," a BBC drama about the higher-ups in big oil--a British forerunner to the American prime-time hit "Dynasty." His roles in expansive historical epics like the Richard Harris-Alec Guiness "Cromwell" and David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" were forerunners of Keen's stodgy public official.
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Geoffrey Keen
Filmography
Movies
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73% |
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The Living Daylights | Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defense (Character) | $51.2M | 1987 |
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Amin -- The Rise and Fall | British Ambassador (Character) | - | 1981 |
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No. 1 of the Secret Service | Rockwell (Character) | - | 1978 |
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QB VII | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
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Living Free | Kendall (Character) | - | 1972 |
70% |
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Sacco and Vanzetti | Judge Webster Thayer (Character) | - | 1971 |
54% |
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Taste the Blood of Dracula | William Hargood (Character) | - | 1970 |
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Thunderbird 6 | New World Aircraft President James Glenn (Voice) | - | 1968 |
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Berserk | Commissioner Dalby (Character) | - | 1967 |
88% |
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Born Free | Kendall (Character) | - | 1966 |
82% |
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Doctor Zhivago | Boris Kurt (Character) | $87.1K | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cracksman | Magistrate (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torpedo Bay | Unknown (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return to Sender | Robert Lindley (Character) | - | 1963 |
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The Mind Benders | Calder (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Matter of Who | Foster (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live Now: Pay Later | Reggie Corby (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spare the Rod | Arthur Gregory (Character) | - | 1961 |
80% |
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The Angry Silence | Davis (Character) | - | 1960 |
86% |
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Sink the Bismarck! | A.C.N.S. (Character) | - | 1960 |
33% |
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Horrors of the Black Museum | Supt. Graham (Character) | - | 1959 |
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The Scapegoat | Gaston (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Web of Evidence | Prison Governor (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Devil's Bait | Joe Frisby (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Place | Mr. Haywood (Character) | - | 1958 |
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Town on Trial | Charles Dixon (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Affection | Headmaster (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Birthday Present | Colonel Wilson (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sailor Beware! | Rev. Mr. Purefoy (Character) | - | 1956 |
88% |
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The Man Who Never Was | Gen. Nye (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Loser Takes All | Reception Clerk (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Long Arm | Chief Superintendant Malcolm (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passage Home | Ike (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Postmark for Danger | Inspector Colby (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Doctor at Sea | Hornbeam (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glass Tomb | Harry Stanton (Character) | - | 1955 |
80% |
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The Maggie | Campbell (Character) | - | 1954 |
86% |
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Doctor in the House | Dean (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Turn the Key Softly | Mr. Gregory (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Divided Heart | Marks (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue | Killearn (Character) | - | 1953 |
86% |
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Genevieve | Policeman (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Black Glove | Maurie Green (Character) | - | 1953 |
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The Long Memory | Craig (Character) | - | 1953 |
92% |
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Cry, the Beloved Country | Father Vincent (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scotland Yard Inspector | Christopher Hampden (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheer the Brave | Unknown (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Grow the Rushes | Spencer Prudhoe (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chance of a Lifetime | Bolger (Character) | - | 1950 |
100% |
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Treasure Island | Israel Hands (Character) | - | 1950 |
100% |
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Odd Man Out | Soldier (Character) | - | 1947 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | Hobart Quennel (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | H.G. Wells' Invisible Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |