1. Geoffrey Keen was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many films.
12 Facts About Geoffrey Keen
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Geoffrey Keen is well known for playing British Defence Minister Sir Frederick Gray in the James Bond films.
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Geoffrey Keen then joined the Little Repertory Theatre in Bristol for whom he made his stage debut in 1932.
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Geoffrey Keen had just joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1939 when the war started.
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Geoffrey Keen enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, though managed to appear in an Army instructional film for Carol Reed.
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Geoffrey Keen made his full film debut in 1946 in Riders of the New Forest but soon appeared in better known films for Reed such as Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol The Third Man and Walt Disney's Treasure Island.
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Geoffrey Keen quickly became one of the busiest character actors, typically doing five films a year.
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Geoffrey Keen continued to perform on stage, for instance as Iachimo in Peter Hall's 1957 production of Cymbeline, and a sadistic Turkish General in Terence Rattigan's controversial play Ross.
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Geoffrey Keen was cast mainly as establishment figures, including government ministers, senior police officers and military figures, though he appeared in working class roles in Chance of a Lifetime and Millions Like Us.
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Geoffrey Keen often portrayed balding, cold-hearted, and sarcastic executives or lawyers.
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Geoffrey Keen appeared in The Spanish Gardener, Doctor Zhivago, Born Free and Cromwell, as well as in numerous TV programmes.
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Geoffrey Keen even appeared in a leading role in the Hammer horror film Taste the Blood of Dracula that starred Christopher Lee.