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Howard Keel

Acting · Born April 13, 1919 · Gillespie, Illinois, U.S.

Howard Keel (born Harold Clifford Keel; April 13, 1919 – November 7, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s. He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich baritone singing voice.

Movies with Howard Keel

• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) — Brother Adam Pontipee
• The War Wagon (1967) — Levi Walking Bear
• Calamity Jane (1953) — Wild Bill Hickok
• The Day of the Triffids (1963) — Bill Masen
• Deep in My Heart (1954) — Performer (segment "My Maryland")
• That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) — (archive footage)
• Show Boat (1951) — Gaylord Ravenal
• That's Entertainment! (1974) — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Annie Get Your Gun (1950) — Frank Butler
• Across the Wide Missouri (1951) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• That's Entertainment! III (1994) — Self - Host
• Kiss Me Kate (1953) — Fred Graham, "Petruchio"

TV shows with Howard Keel

• Dallas (1978) — Clayton Farlow