Charles Keating (actor)

Keating was born on 22 October 1941 in London to Roman Catholic parents who had emigrated from Ireland, Charles James Keating and Margaret (née Shevlin) Keating.{{cite news|last=Hayward|first=Anthony|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/charles-keating-actor-who-made-his-name-as-rex-mottram-in-brideshead-revisited-before-becoming-a-villainous-star-of-us-soaps-9672288.html|title=Charles Keating: Actor who made his name as Rex Mottram in'Brideshead Revisited' before becoming a villainous star of US soaps|date=15 August 2014|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|accessdate=26 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/42/Charles-Keating.html|title=Charles Keating profile|website=FilmReference.com|accessdate=26 May 2015}}

Keating moved to the United States via Canada with his family as a teenager.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/arts/television/charles-keating-soap-opera-villain-and-shakespearean-dies-at-72.html|title=Charles Keating, Actor on TV and Stage, Dies at 72|date=12 August 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=27 May 2015}} He was working as a hairdresser in Buffalo, New York, when a customer suggested he try out for a local play,{{cite news|last=Chawkins|first=Steve|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-charles-keating-20140811-story.html|title=Charles Keating, actor who played soap opera villain, dies at 72|date=10 August 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=27 May 2015}} and he made his stage debut in 1959 with the Buffalo Studio Theatre.

Keating found steady work with the Cleveland Play House repertory company and was on tour when he met his future wife, actress Mary Chobody. The two were married in 1964 while Keating was serving in the United States Army and directing plays for its entertainment division at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Keating later acted at the Charles Playhouse in Boston before eventually joining the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. In 1971, Tyrone Guthrie asked him to move back to England and open the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Keating appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon before turning to television (he was in the pilot episode of the long-running ITV series Crown Court in 1972), winning the roles of Ernest Simpson in Edward & Mrs. Simpson and Rex Mottram in ITV's Brideshead Revisited. In 1978 on the BBC Shakespeare series, he played the role of Rutland, Duke of Aumerle, in Richard II.

Keating is best known for his role as Carl Hutchins in the American soap opera Another World from 1983 to 1985, and again from 1991 to 1998 with a final appearance in 1999. He also played Charles in the satirical miniseries Fresno in 1986, which parodied the prime-time soaps of the day such as Dynasty and Dallas.{{citation needed|date= May 2015}}

After Another World ended its run, he returned to stage acting and Shakespeare in a two-person show with former Another World co-star Victoria Wyndham.{{cite news|last=Tarantola|first=Christina|url=https://www.dailypress.com/1995/01/28/this-couple-loves-to-love-on-screen-stage/|title=This Couple Loves To Love on Screen, Stage|date=28 January 1995|newspaper=Daily Press|access-date=26 May 2015}}{{cite news|last=Nicholson|first=David|url=https://www.dailypress.com/1995/09/15/an-evening-of-love/|title=An Evening of Love: Soap Opera Stars Bring 'Couplets' To W&m Theater|date=15 September 1995|newspaper=Daily Press|access-date=26 May 2015}}{{cite news|last=Hershenson|first=Roberta|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/05/nyregion/a-triangle-yields-couplets.html|title=A Triangle Yields 'Couplets'|date=5 February 1995|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2015}}

During 2001 and 2002, Keating played the part of James Richfield in Port Charles.

Between stints on Another World, he played Dr. Damon Lazarre on All My Children, and Niles Mason on As the World Turns. He also had a role as a professor at a Caribbean medical school that catered to Americans in the short-lived ABC sitcom Going to Extremes as well as a guest role on Sex and the City.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

In 1992, he appeared as Klingman in The Bodyguard. In 1999, he appeared as Freidrich Golchan in “The Thomas Crown Affair”. In 2005, he played the role of Gian-Carlo in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28738703|title=Charles Keating, Shakespearian actor and soap star, dies|date=11 August 2014|publisher=BBC|department=Entertainment & Arts|accessdate=26 May 2015}}

Broadway roles include Loot by Joe Orton (1986), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play,{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1968) and The House of Atreus (1968), which comprised three classics: Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides.{{IBDB name|83482|Charles Keating|accessdate=26 May 2015}}

In 2001, he played the role of Carney/Oscar Wilde in the Lincoln Center performance of A Man of No Importance. In 2007, he played the role of Clement O'Donnell in the Guthrie Theater production of Brian Friel's The Home Place.{{cite web|url=http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&keyword=name&first=Charles&last=Keating&middle=|title=Charles Keating|website=Lortel Archives|publisher=Lucille Lortel Foundation|accessdate=26 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006012543/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&keyword=name&first=Charles&last=Keating&middle=|archive-date=6 October 2012}}

At the 23rd Daytime Emmy Awards, Keating won the 1996 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in the role of Carl Hutchins on Another World.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Keating died of lung cancer at the age of 72 on 8 August 2014 in Weston, Connecticut. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and the couple's two sons.{{cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/chi-charles-keating-dies-20140809,0,3875930.story|title=Charles Keating dies at the age of 72|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|agency=Reuters|accessdate=26 May 2015}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_mz6l8Mgk TV Interview with Charles Keating] about his role in the Guthrie Theater's July–August 2000 production of The Twelfth Night (28:40).

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