Dennis O'Keefe
Gender: Male
Born: 29th March 1908
Died: 31st August 1968
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Dennis O'Keefe Show, Suspicion
Movies: Cover Up, Raw Deal, T-Men, The Leopard Man, Woman on the Run, Arise, My Love, The Fighting Seabees, Follow the Sun, Sensations of 1945, The Great Dan Patch, Doll Face, Abandoned, Brewster's Millions, Inside Detroit, Hold That Kiss, Walk a Crooked Mile, That’s Right You’re Wrong, Hi Diddle Diddle, Getting Gertie's Garter, Topper Returns, The Fake, The Diamond Wizard, Moonlight Masquerade, Broadway Limited, One Big Affair, Drums of Tahiti, Walk a Crooked Mile, A Bill of Divorcement, The Chaser, Vacation from Love, Burn 'Em Up O'Connor, Mr. District Attorney, Everything I Have Is Yours
Dennis O'Keefe (29 March 1908 – 31 August 1968) was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States. As a small child he joined his parents' act and later wrote skits for the stage.
O'Keefe started in films as an extra in the early 1930s and appeared in numerous films under the name Bud Flanagan. After a small but impressive role in Saratoga (1937), Clark Gable recommended O'Keefe to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which signed him to a contract in 1937 and renamed him Dennis O'Keefe. His film roles were bigger after that, starting with The Bad Man of Brimstone (1938), and the lead role in Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939).
O'Keefe left MGM around 1940 but continued to work in mostly lower budget productions. He often played the tough guy in action and crime dramas but was also known as a comic actor as well as a dramatic lead. In the 1950s he did some directing and wrote mystery stories. In the middle 1950s, he appeared on NBC's legal drama Justice and on the network's The Martha Raye Show. On October 3, 1957, he was a guest star on another NBC variety show, The Ford Show, starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. From 1957 to 1958, he was
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