Keenan Wynn

...from longtime Vaudville and Slapstick comedian Ed Wynn in his sole dramatic performance. It also features his son Keenan Wynn, who is also amazing in the piece. The lovely Kim Hunter of PLANET OF THE APES fame figures prominently in...

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...in the Head (1959 ) is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra and featuring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor and Joi Lansing. The film introduced the song "High Hopes ",...

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...name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood. Keenan Wynn became an actor with Ed Wynn's encouragement and the two appeared together in the original television production of Rod...

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...Don't (1972), The Strongest Man in the World-starring Kurt Russell and Cesar Romero. Ed Wynn and son Keenan Wynn appear together in this film; Keenan's son Ned also appears uncredited in a bit part. The elder Wynn plays the Fire Chief (an...

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...as clinically insane-I probably would." (Perhaps Wynn comes by her enthusiasm naturally. She's the granddaughter of actor Keenan Wynn, who appeared on Broadway in musical revues in the 1930s and 1940s, and the great-granddaughter of Ed Wynn,...

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...originated by Jack Palance, with Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn. The part of social worker Grace Miller in the film went to Julie Harris Muhammad Ali, then still...

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...has become an A., but the similarities in character leave little doubt that it is the same Hawk. Portrayed in all three films by Keenan Wynn, Hawk is a greedy, underhanded banker/financier who tries to take advantage of the films'...

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...local radio show (Big Whooper Radio). They are helped along the way by a very pretty girl, Jessica Keenan Wynn (yes, granddaughter of actor Keenan Wynn) who is the object of all the boys' desire. This, of course, leads each boy and girl to...

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One is an actress (Shelley Winters), one a doctor (THE DAY THE EARTHS TOOD STILL's Michael Rennie) and one's a traveling salesman (Keenan Wynn). They are all seated together in a cafe as they wait for their flight. The first half of the...

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...studio premieres and parties. He married only once, at the height of his career, in 1947, to Eve Wynn, who had divorced his friend Keenan Wynn four hours earlier. The marriage produced a daughter, Schuyler, and ended bitterly 13 years...

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