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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- The Circular Staircase (1915)
- Redeeming Love (1916)
- The Parson of Panamint (1916)
- Molly Entangled (1917)
- Huck and Tom; or, the Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1918)
- A Petticoat Pilot (1918)
- Sauce for the Goose (1918)
- The Girl of My Dreams (1918)
- Children of Banishment (1919)
- The Third Kiss (1919)
- The Soul of Youth (1920)
- Sweet Lavender (1920)
- Everything for Sale (1921)
- Sacred and Profane Love (1921)
- A Virginia Courtship (1921)
- Rags to Riches (1922)
- Are You a Failure? (1923)
- Just Like a Woman (1923)
- Only 38 (1923)
- The Deadwood Coach (1924)
- Fair Week (1924)
- The Hill Billy (1924)
- The Mile-a-Minute Man (1926)
- Aflame in the Sky (1927)
- The Angel of Broadway (1927)
- The Country Doctor (1927)
- The King of Kings (1927)
- The Lady in Ermine (1927)
- Craig's Wife (1928)
- Harold Teen (1928)
- The Masked Angel (1928)
- Object: Alimony (1928)
- On to Reno (1928)
- Road House (1928)
- Walking Back (1928)
- Dynamite (1929)
- Noisy Neighbors (1929)
- The Godless Girl (1929)
- Conspiracy (1930)
- Hide-Out (1930)
- The Naughty Flirt (1931)
- Dance Hall Hostess (1933)
- Curtain at Eight (1933)
- Murder on the Campus (1933)
- One Year Later (1933)
- Notorious but Nice (1933)
- Strange People (1933)
- The World Accuses (1934)
- The Quitter (1934)
- One in a Million (1934)
- Stolen Sweets (1934)
- City Limits (1934)
- The Painted Veil (1934)
- I Give My Love (1934)
- Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
- A Shot in the Dark (1935)
- False Pretenses (1935)
- The Tonto Kid (1935)
- Ginger (1935)
- Diamond Jim (1935)
- Show Boat (1936)
- Paddy O'Day (1936)
- The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
- Roarin' Lead (1936)
- And Sudden Death (1936)
- Tango (1936)
- Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
- Pepper (1936)
- Gentle Julia (1936)
- Magnificent Obsession (1936)
- Next Time We Love (1936)
- Laughing at Trouble (1936)
- Souls at Sea (1937)
- The Plainsman (1937)
- That I May Live (1937)
- Dangerous Holiday (1937)
- Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)
- The Buccaneer (1938)
- Road Demon (1938)
- Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)
- Scandal Street (1938)
- Lightning Carson Rides Again (1938)
- In Old Montana (1939)
- Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
- Union Pacific (1939)
- Persons in Hiding (1939)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) (uncredited)
- Bedtime Story (1941)
- Buy Me That Town (1941)
- Dude Cowboy (1941)
- Honky Tonk (1941)
- There's Magic in Music (1941)
- Tight Shoes (1941)
- Riding the Wind (1942)
- South of Santa Fe (1942)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0444274}}
- [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1910s-silent-film-actress-jane-1817325511 autographed portrait, 1917](archived)
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:Actresses from Charleston, South Carolina
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Western (genre) film actresses