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Robert Emmett Keane

{{short description|American actor (1883–1981)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Emmett Keane

| image = Robert Emmett Keane Fear in the Night.jpg

| caption = Publicity still of Keane for Fear in the Night (1947)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1883|3|4}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|7|2|1883|3|4}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| birthname =

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Muriel Inetta Window Turnley
(m. 1916–div. 1920)
Claire Whitney
(m. 1921–1969, her death)

| yearsactive = 1914–1958

}}

Robert Emmett Keane (March 4, 1883 – July 2, 1981) was an American actor of both the stage and screen.

Biography

Keane began on stage in the 1910s, his first Broadway appearance being in the production of The Passing Show of 1914. He continued on the stage through the mid-1930s, appearing in both London and New York theater productions.{{cite web | url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=47576 | publisher=Internet Broadway Database | title=Robert Emmett Keane | accessdate=October 23, 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721211354/http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=47576 | archivedate=July 21, 2013}} His film career began in 1930, and over the twenty-five years of that career he appeared in between 170 and 200 films.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&TBL=PN&Type=CA&ID=133090 | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Robert Emmett Keane | accessdate=October 23, 2014}} At the very tail end of his acting life he made several appearances on the small screen.

Keane was married twice. His first marriage was to Muriel Inetta Window, an opera singer, vaudeville actress and 1913 Peacock Girl with the Ziegfeld Follies. They were married in approximately 1916 and divorced in 1920.{{Citation needed |date=September 2020}} After his divorce, he married the actress Claire Whitney in 1921, and they remained married until her death in 1969.{{Citation needed |date=January 2025}} He retired in 1958, and died on July 2, 1981. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, next to his wife, Claire (although her grave is unmarked).{{Citation needed |date=September 2020}}

Filmography

(Per AFI database)

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Category:1883 births

Category:1981 deaths

Category:American male stage actors

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Male actors from New York City

Category:Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)