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Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Born: Jul 27, 1916 in New York City, New York
Died: Oct 14, 1986 in Brentwood, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'80s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Just Tell Me What You Want, The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob, Kiss Me Kate
First Major Screen Credit: Between Two Women (1944)
29 Videos for Keenan Wynn
Black Moon Rising (1986) The Internecine Project (1973) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Hyper-Sapien: People from Another Star (1986) The Mechanic (1972) Touch of Evil (1958)
Mirrors (1985) Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1970) Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Best Friends (1982) MacKenna's Gold (1969) The Belle of New York (1952)
The Last Unicorn (1982) Finian's Rainbow (1968) Royal Wedding (1951)
The Last Unicorn (1982) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Three Little Words (1950)
Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) Point Blank (1967) Neptune's Daughter (1949)
The Bastard (1978) The War Wagon (1967) Song of the Thin Man (1947)
The Killer Inside Me (1976) Around the World under the Sea (1965) For Me and My Gal (1942)
Nashville (1975) The Great Race (1965)
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Biography:

Actor Keenan Wynn was the son of legendary comedian Ed Wynn and actress Hilda Keenan, and grandson of stage luminary Frank Keenan. After attending St. John's Military Academy, Wynn obtained his few professional theatrical jobs with the Maine Stock Company. After overcoming the Ed Wynn's Son onus (his father arranged his first job, with the understanding that Keenan would be on his own after that), Wynn developed into a fine comic and dramatic actor on his own in several Broadway plays and on radio.

He was signed to an MGM contract in 1942, scoring a personal and professional success as the sarcastic sergeant in 1944's See Here Private Hargrove (1944). Wynn's newfound popularity as a supporting actor aroused a bit of jealousy from his father, who underwent professional doldrums in the 1940s; father and son grew closer in the 1950s when Ed, launching a second career as a dramatic actor, often turned to his son for moral support and professional advice.

Wynn's film career flourished into the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he frequently appeared in such Disney films as The Absent-Minded Professor (1960) and The Love Bug (1968) as apoplectic villain Alonso Hawk. Wynn also starred in such TV series as Troubleshooters and Dallas.

Encroaching deafness and a drinking problem plagued Wynn in his final years, but he always delivered the goods onscreen. Wynn was the father of writer/director Tracy Keenan Wynn and writer/actor Edmund Keenan (Ned) Wynn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.