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| Brian Keith | |||||
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| Born | Robert Alba Keith November 14, 1921 Bayonne, New Jersey | ||||
| Died | June 24, 1997 (Age 75) Malibu, California | ||||
| Characters played | Ben Parker Ben Parker (Spider-Man (Armored) Universe) | ||||
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Robert Alba Keith, credited as Brian Keith, (born November 14, 1921; died June 24, 1997) was an American actor who played Ben Parker and his alternate counterpart on Spider-Man.
Biography
Other notable roles include Crusader, The Parent Trap, Family Affair, The Brian Keith Show, Hardcastle and McCormick, Young Guns, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
After suffering from emphysema and lung cancer for ten years, he was found in his Malibu home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was seventy-five years old. Two months later his daughter Daisy Keith committed suicide. The two were buried next to each other.
Keith received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 26, 2008.