Ian Keith

Highest Rated: 100% Captain Kidd (1945)

Lowest Rated: 18% Forever Amber (1947)

Birthday: Feb 27, 1899

Birthplace: Not Available

Tall, handsome, golden-throated leading man Ian Keith became a Broadway favorite in the 1920s. He also pursued a sporadic silent film career, appearing opposite the illustrious likes of Gloria Swanson and Lon Chaney Sr. A natural for talkies, Keith appeared in such early sound efforts as Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930) and D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930) (in which he played John Wilkes Booth). A favorite of Cecil B. DeMille, Keith stole the show as the cultured, soft-spoken Saladin in DeMille's The Crusades (1935). A rambunctious night life and an inclination towards elbow-bending reduced Keith's stature in Hollywood, and by the mid-1940s he was occasionally obliged to appear in such cheapies as the 1946 "Bowery Boys" epic Mr. Hex. His final screen appearance was a cameo as Rameses I in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Among Ian Keith's wives was stage luminary Blanche Yurka and silent-film leading lady Ethel Clayton.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
86%	The Ten Commandments	Rameses I	—	1956
No Score Yet	New York Confidential	Waluska	—	1955
No Score Yet	Prince Of Players	King in Hamlet	—	1955
56%	It Came from Beneath the Sea	Adm. Burns	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Black Shield of Falworth	King Henry IV	—	1954
80%	The Three Musketeers	De Rochefort	—	1948
18%	Forever Amber	Tybalt	—	1947
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy's Dilemma	Vitamin	—	1947
No Score Yet	Border Feud	Doc Peters	—	1947
87%	Nightmare Alley	Pete	—	1947
No Score Yet	Dick Tracy vs. Cueball	Vitamin Flintheart	—	1946
40%	The Strange Woman	Lincoln Partridge	—	1946
No Score Yet	Northwest Trail	Inspector McGrath	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Spanish Main	Capt. Lussan	—	1945
No Score Yet	Identity Unknown	Maj. Williams	—	1945
No Score Yet	Fog Island	Dr. Lake	—	1945
100%	Captain Kidd	Lord Albermarle	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Chinese Cat	Recknick	—	1944
No Score Yet	Wild Horse Stampede	Carson	—	1943
No Score Yet	Corregidor	Capt. Morris	—	1943
100%	Five Graves to Cairo	British Captain	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Payoff	Inspector	—	1942
No Score Yet	Remember Pearl Harbor	Capt. Hudson	—	1942
83%	All This, and Heaven Too	Delangle	—	1940
93%	The Sea Hawk	Peralta	—	1940
No Score Yet	Land of Liberty	Actor	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Buccaneer	Sen. Crawford	—	1938
No Score Yet	Wallaby Jim of the Islands	Actor	—	1937
No Score Yet	Mary of Scotland	James Stuart Moray	—	1936
No Score Yet	The White Legion	Dr. Julian Murray	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Three Musketeers	de Rochefort	—	1935
100%	The Crusades	Saladin, Sultan of Islam	—	1935
82%	Cleopatra	Octavian	—	1934
83%	Queen Christina	Magnus	—	1933
55%	The Sign of the Cross	Tigellinus	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Deceiver	Reginald Thorpe	—	1931
No Score Yet	Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise	Robert Lane	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Phantom of Paris	Marquis Du Touchais	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Sin Ship	Marsden	—	1931
75%	Abraham Lincoln	John Wilkes Booth	—	1930
100%	The Big Trail	Bill Thorpe	—	1930
No Score Yet	The Divine Lady	Greville	—	1929
No Score Yet	Two Arabian Knights	Shevket	—	1927
No Score Yet	The Love of Sunya	Anthony	—	1927
No Score Yet	Manhandled	Robert Brandt	—	1924

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Silent Witness	P.C. Jarvis	1996
No Score Yet	Pie in the Sky 1997	CI Geoff Woods

Quotes from Ian Keith's Characters

Rameses I:

So let it be written. So let it be done.

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Ian Keith

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MOVIES

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Quotes from Ian Keith's Characters