Keith Pyott

{{Short description|British actor (1902–1968)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Keith Pyott

| image = Actor_Keith_Pyott.jpg

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| caption = in Village of the Damned (1960)

| birth_name = Keith Malcolm Rule Pyott

| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|03|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Blackheath, London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|04|06|1902|03|09|df=y}}

| death_place = Enfield, Middlesex, England

| othername =

| occupation = Actor

}}

Keith Pyott (9 March 1902 – 6 April 1968) was a British actor.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11862|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115183014/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11862|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Keith Pyott|publisher=}}

He transferred from stage to screen and was a regular face in drama in the early days of television, appearing in Educated Evans, The Prisoner, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers and the Doctor Who story The Aztecs.{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/msy/keith-pyott/past|title=Keith Pyott - Theatricalia|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00v1pmp|title=The Warriors of Death, The Aztecs, Season 1, Doctor Who - BBC One|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/keith-pyott-p58127|title=Keith Pyott - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|publisher=}}

He also appeared in over twenty feature films, including Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1965).{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/chimes-at-midnight-v9321/cast-crew|title=Chimes at Midnight (1966) - Orson Welles - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|publisher=}}

Pyott was married to the actress Sheila Raynor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7vPDQAAQBAJ&dq=keith+pyott+actor&pg=PA1990-IA154|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111968|via=Google Books}}