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George Keane

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Actor 1917–1995 On stage 19391952

George Keane (1917–1995) was an American actor who created the role of Jeff Douglas in the original Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1947).

On stage 9 productions, 13 years

1939 Hamlet 44th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by Margaret Webster 40 perf.
1940 King Richard II St James Theatre · Revival · directed by Margaret Webster 32 perf.
1940 Twelfth Night St James Theatre · Revival · directed by Margaret Webster 129 perf.
1942 Lifeline Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Dudley Digges 8 perf.
1942 The Moon Is Down Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Chester Erskin 71 perf.
1946 Park Avenue Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Helen Tamiris 72 perf.
1947 Brigadoon Ziegfeld Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Lewis 581 perf.
1949 Love Me Long 48th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Margaret Perry 16 perf.
1952 The Seven Year Itch Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by John Gerstad 1,141 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Rhys Williams 3 productions
Lauren Gilbert 3 productions
William Hansen 2 productions
Whitford Kane 2 productions
Sydney Smith 2 productions
Raymond Johnson 2 productions
Melvin Parks 2 productions
Kurt Richards 2 productions
June Brown 2 productions
John Mcquade 2 productions
John Barclay 2 productions
Jessie Dimond 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature4 passages

  • Cast: David Brooks, Marion Bell, Pamela Britton, Lee Sullivan, George Keane, James Mitchell, William Hansen, Elliott Sullivan, Helen Gallagher, Hayes Gordon, Lidija Franklinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The fantasy is about two American tourists, Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas (David Brooks and George Keane), who stumble upon a mist-clouded Scottish town that, they eventually discover, reawakens only one day every hundred years. Tommy, who enjoys wandering through the heather on the hill with a local lass, Fiona MacLaren (Marion Bell),…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • MARIA PALMER, WHITFORD KANE, GEORGE KEANE, LYLE BETTGER, RALPH MORGAN, JANE SEYMOUR intheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • John Jordan, George Keane, Dorothea MacFarland, James Mitchell, Patricia Neal, David Wayne 1947-48: Valerie Bettis, Edward Bryce, Whitfield Connor, Mark Dawson, June Lockhart, Estelle Loring, Peggy Maley, Ralph Meeker, Meg Mundy, Douglass Watson, James Whitmore, Patrice Wymoretheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1988-89 Season, v. 45 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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