Teri Keane
{{short description|American actress (1925–2022)}}
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| name = Teri Keane
| image =File:Teri Keane 1949.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Keane in 1949
| birth_name = Teri Louisa Keane
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|10|24}}
| birth_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|17|1925|10|24}}
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| other_names =
| occupation = Actress
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| spouse = {{marriage|John Larkin|1950|1961|end=divorced}}
| children = 1
| parents =
| known_for = Radio soap operas
}}
Teri Louisa Keane (October 24, 1925 – November 17, 2022) was an American actress known for her work in the era of old-time radio. She was reported to have "appeared in more than 100 dramatic roles in radio and television."{{cite news|title=Very Dramatic|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5644126/simpsons_leadertimes/|work=Simpson's Leader-Times|date=May 10, 1971|location=Pennsylvania, Kittanning|page=15|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 20, 2016}} {{Open access}} For a twelve-year period, from Oct 1963 to April 4, 1975, she played Martha Spears Marceau, the wife of police chief Bill Marceau on the CBS-TV daytime drama The Edge of Night.
Early years
File:Teri Keane and John Larkin, 1950.jpg
File:Teri Keane and daughter 1954.jpg
Keane was born in Manhattan.{{cite journal|title=Life is so Beautiful!|journal=Radio-TV Mirror|date=April 1952|volume=37|issue=5|pages=34–35, 80+81|url=https://archive.org/stream/radiotvmirr00macf#page/n373/mode/2up|access-date=23 June 2016}} Her father was a newspaperman,{{cite news|title=Serial Queen's Career Began at 9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5634018/long_beach_independent/|work=Long Beach Independent|date=October 16, 1949|location=California, Long Beach|page=84|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 19, 2016}} {{Open access}} at one time an editor of The New York Globe,{{cite journal|title=Teri Keane|journal=Radio-TV Mirror|date=February 1952|volume=37|issue=3|page=62|url=https://archive.org/stream/radiotvmirror00macf#page/n173/mode/1up|access-date=23 June 2016}} and her mother was "the leading coloratura" at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest,{{cite news|title=(photograph caption)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5633876/the_lincoln_star/|work=The Lincoln Star|date=July 4, 1948|location=Nebraska, Lincoln|page=24|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 19, 2016}} {{Open access}} who later became a professor of music at Wittenberg College. She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.{{cite news|last1=Gerhard|first1=Inez|title=Star Dust|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5643750/shiner_gazette/|work=Shiner Gazette|date=July 6, 1950|location=Texas, Shiner|page=8|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 20, 2016}} {{Open access}}
Keane's acting career began when she was 9 years old. "By the time I was 19," she told a reporter for a story in the November 1954 issue of TV-Radio Mirror, "I had played dramatic roles in five Broadway shows and was already a radio veteran."{{cite journal|last1=Temple|first1=Mary|title=the Joy of Sharing|journal=TV Radio Mirror|date=November 1954|volume=42|issue=6|pages=64–65, 69–71|url=https://archive.org/stream/radiotvm00macf#page/n525/mode/2up|access-date=23 June 2016}}
Radio
Keane's roles on radio programs included those shown in the table below among others.
Keane was also a member of the casts of Mr. Mercury,{{r|sies|page1=454}} Just Plain Bill,{{r|sies|page1=359}}, and Somerset Maugham Theater.Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-5149-4}}. P. 626. In the 1970s, she was heard on CBS Radio Mystery Theater.{{cite news|title=CBS Mystery Theater|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5644231/santa_ana_register/|work=Santa Ana Register|date=December 4, 1975|location=California, Santa Ana|page=26|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 20, 2016}} {{Open access}}
Stage
Keane's Broadway credits include Hairpin Harmony, The Vagabond King,{{cite web|title=(Teri Keane search)|url=http://www.playbill.com/searchpage/search?shows=on&people=on&theatres=on&search-module=Teri+Keane&qasset=00000150-ac7f-d16d-a550-ec7f99bc0002|website=Playbill Vault|access-date=20 June 2016}} Swing Your Lady, and What a Life.
Television
File: One Life to Live cast 1977.JPG
Keane's roles on television programs included those shown in the table below.
Keane also appeared on Young Doctor Malone (1963), Kitty Foyle (1958), The Inner Flame (1955), The Road of Life (1954), All My Children (1979), Ryan’s Hope (1985), Guiding Light (1957, 1988), Search for Tomorrow (1956, 1980), As the World Turns (1961–1963), and American Inventory.{{cite news|title=Student Volunteers|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5643811/the_bridgeport_telegram/|work=The Bridgeport Telegram|date=January 9, 1955|location=Connecticut, Bridgeport|page=26|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 20, 2016}} {{Open access}}
Personal life and death
Keane married radio and television actor John Larkin on June 10, 1950, in Englewood, New Jersey.{{cite news|title=Soap Opera Heroine And Hero Marry|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5633656/valley_morning_star/|work=Valley Morning Star|agency=United Press|date=June 11, 1950|location=Texas, Harlingen|page=3|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = June 19, 2016}} {{Open access}} They had a daughter, Sharon, born March 5, 1951.
Keane died on November 17, 2022, at the age of 97.{{cite web |title=Special Issue 2023 |url=https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1490579-special-2023/87? |website=SAG-AFTRA Magazine |access-date=30 January 2023 |pages=87}}
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Actresses from Manhattan