Jane Keckley

{{short description|American actress (1876-1963)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Jane Keckley

| image = Deadwood Coach lobby card.jpg

| caption = Keckley (left) on lobby card for The Deadwood Coach (1924)

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1876|9|10}}

| birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1963|8|14|1876|9|10}}

| death_place = South Pasadena, California, U.S.

| birthname =

| occupation = Actress

| othername = Jane Watson

| spouse = Roy Watson

| yearsactive = 1916–1942

}}

Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963){{cite web |title=Jane Keckley |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jane-keckley-p37292 |website=AllMovie |access-date=June 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617022526/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jane-keckley-p37292 |archive-date=June 17, 2021}} was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras.

Biography

Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia.{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=2015-05-20 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0905-8 |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jane+Keckley%22&pg=PA186 |access-date=June 17, 2021 |language=en}}

Before she acted in films, Keckley performed in stock theater and in vaudeville.{{cite news |title=On stage 25 years, Jane Keckley has excellent record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79709549/jane-keckley/ |access-date=June 17, 2021 |work=Battle Creek Enquirer |date=April 17, 1929 |page=12|via = Newspapers.com}}

Keckley began her film career in one- and two-reel Westerns in 1911. Her first feature film was 1915's The Circular Staircase (under the name Jane Watson). In her twenty-five year career, she would appear in over 90 films, as well as dozens of shorts. She would appear as a supporting actress in such films as: William Desmond Taylor's Huck and Tom (1918);{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2327 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Huck and Tom; or, the Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer | accessdate=December 27, 2014}} the 1936 version of Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne and Allan Jones;{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1033 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Show Boat | accessdate=December 27, 2014}} and Magnificent Obsession (1935), starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7230 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Magnificent Obsession | accessdate=December 27, 2014}}

She was under contract to Paramount in the late 1930s and early 1940s,{{cite web | url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/people/jane-keckley/AA4ip52 | publisher=MSN | title=Jane Keckley | accessdate=December 27, 2014}} where she appeared in her final film, South of Santa Fe (1942), starring Roy Rogers.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27472 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=South of Santa Fe | accessdate=December 27, 2014}}

Keckley was married to, and divorced from, actor Roy Watson.{{cite news |title=Roy Watson, Film Actor, Succumbs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90327893/obituary-for-roy-watson/ |access-date=December 10, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |date=June 7, 1937 |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}} She died on August 14, 1963.{{Better source|date=June 2021}}

Filmography

(Per AFI database){{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=CA&Tbl=PN&CatID=&ID=79252&searchedFor=Jane_Keckley_&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Jane Keckley | accessdate=December 27, 2014}}

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