Howard Keel
Gender: Male
Born: 13th April 1919
Died: 7th November 2004
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Dallas, Let Freedom Ring
Movies: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Calamity Jane, Kiss Me, Kate, Callaway Went Thataway, The Day of the Triffids, Annie Get Your Gun, The Big Fisherman, Kismet, Ride, Vaquero!, Waco, Show Boat, Fast Company, Jupiter's Darling, Pagan Love Song, The War Wagon, Three Guys Named Mike, Arizona Bushwackers, The Man from Button Willow, Texas Carnival, Armored Command, Hollywood Musicals of the '50s, Deep in My Heart, Texas Carnival, Desperate Search
Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich baritone singing voice.
Keel was born Harold Clifford Keel in Gillespie, Illinois, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel and his wife, Grace Osterkamp Keel. (It is often erroneously stated—by the MGM publicity department of the 1950s—that Keel's birth name was Harold Leek).
Young Harold spent his childhood in poverty. One of his teachers, Miss Rosa Burke, noticed one day that he was not eating his lunch. From that day forward, Miss Burke would pack two lunches - one for herself and one for Harold. When he became famous and would perform near Gillespie, Burke always received tickets to attend his performances.
After his father's death in 1930, Keel and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from Fallbrook
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