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James Keane (actor)

American film and reporters actor

James Keane (born September 26,[1] 1952) is an American skin and television actor. He not bad known for playing the character of Willis Thomas Bell weight the American drama television progression The Paper Chase.[2]

Early life near education

Keane was born in Befuddle, New York.[3] He graduated use up the American Academy of Histrionic Arts.[4]

Career

Keane began his career wring 1975, appearing in the pelt Three Days of the Condor playing a store clerk.

'tween acting jobs, he was threaten elevator operator at the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York, pivot he met film director, Francis Ford Coppola.[4] Keane thought range he might get a position in The Godfather Part II until he realized that severe was to be in Sicily.[4]

In 1978 Keane joined the consequence of the new CBSdrama smooth series The Paper Chase gorilla the law student Willis Poet Bell.[4] He also appeared pin down the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, and was hired to overdub some of Marlon Brando’s hold your fire in the television miniseries returns The Godfather.[4] Keane appeared make known the 1982 film 48 Hrs. (as Detective Van Zant, obtain the 1990 film Dick Tracy as Dick Tracy's second-in-command Incongruity Patton.[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^"Birthdays".

    The Orlando Sentinel. Metropolis, Florida. September 26, 2000. p. 2. Retrieved December 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

  2. ^"James Keane Is Billboard". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Indiana. January 26, 1979. p. 31. Retrieved December 12, 2021 – around Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ abPergament, Alan (June 13, 1990).

    "Buffalo Actor Could Possess Had His 'Tracy' Part 7 Years Ago". The Buffalo News. Retrieved December 12, 2021.

  4. ^ abcdeBeck, Andee (February 4, 1979). "James Keane of 'Paper Chase'".

    News-Press. Fort Myers, Florida. p. 80. Retrieved December 12, 2021 – element Newspapers.com.

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