George Keymas — Acting | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

George Keymas (November 18, 1925 – January 17, 2008) was an American film and television actor.

Keymas graduated from Springfield (Ohio) High School.

Keymas began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in Westerns. His first screen appearance was in an uncredited role in the 1950 B-feature film, I Shot Billy the Kid, with lead Don "Red" Barry. Keymas was cast in ethnic, often Native American characters, or cow-punching, at times ruthless, cowboys, in countless film and TV Westerns. He appeared on "Have Gun Will Travel" S2 E19 "The Monster" as Regaldo, which first aired on 1/14/1960.

He portrayed "the Leader" in The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", which originally aired November 11, 1960. His freakish, ambiguous character was seen throughout the episode on a futuristic big-screen monitor as background subplot to the story. In 1962, he played a murderer in "The Nancy Davis Story" on the TV Western Wagon Train.

Keymas's "Indian" roles came in many other popular TV Westerns series of the day, such as Daniel Boone, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza, among many others. Keymas retired in 1977.

Selected filmography

I Shot Billy the Kid (1950) - Murphy's Man (uncredited)

Border Rangers (1950) - Raker, Henchman

Mask of the Avenger (1951) - Austrian Soldier (uncredited)

Actors and Sin (1952) (segment "Woman of Sin") - Producer

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) - Prisoner (uncredited)

Salome (1953) - Sailor (uncredited)

Siren of Bagdad (1953) - Soradin

Flame of Calcutta (1953) - Prince Jehan

The Robe (1953) - Slave (uncredited)

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (1953, Serial) - Sailor in the Argus brig (uncredited)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) - Afridi Horseman (uncredited)

Bait (1954) - Chuck

Drums of Tahiti (1954) - Angelo

The Raid (1954) - Captain Dupree (uncredited)

The Black Dakotas (1954) - Spotted Deer (uncredited)

They Rode West (1954) - Torquay (uncredited)

The Bamboo Prison (1954) - Spiros Metaxas (uncredited)

The Prodigal (1955) - Scribe (uncredited)

Stranger on Horseback (1955) - Bannerman's Henchman

Wyoming Renegades (1955) - George Curry

Kentucky Rifle (1955) - Interpreter

Santa Fe Passage (1955) - Chief Satank

Apache Ambush (1955) - Tweedy

The Vanishing American (1955) - Coshanta

Kismet (1955) - Young Policeman (uncredited)

Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) - Daley

The Maverick Queen (1956) - Muncie

Walk the Proud Land (1956) - Ponce (uncredited)

Thunder Over Arizona (1956) - Harvard 'Shotgun' Kelly

The White Squaw (1956) - Yotah

Utah Blaine (1957) - Rink Witter

The Storm Rider (1957) - Apache Kid

Apache Warrior (1957) - Chato

Plunder Road (1957) - Officer No. 1 (uncredited)

Gunfire at Indian Gap (1957) - Scully

Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958) - Sergeant Price, State Police

Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958) - Hondo

Death Valley Days (1960) - Toguima, Episode: Mission to the Mountains

Studs Lonigan (1960) - Gangster (uncredited)

Lonely Are the Brave (1962) - Deputy (uncredited)

He Rides Tall (1964) - Ed Harney (uncredited)

Arizona Raiders (1965) - Montana

Beau Geste (1966) - Platoon Sergeant

Journey to Shiloh (1968) - Crooked Gambler (uncredited)

The Other Side of Midnight (1977) - Dr. K

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