The Life and Sad Ending® of Brian Keith - The Original Sad Ending Channel

[@veronicasiegfried2712]

Brian Keith is one of my favorite actors. I never hesitate to watch a classic movie he is in.❤

[@liberty3928]

I recently read an article interview with Lee Meriwether. She was a dear friend to Brian Keith until his death and she said she knows that Brian did not off himself and that it just wasn't in him to do that. She is positive that the gun incident was an accident. Rest in peace Dear Brian ❤🕊

[@leebryant-y3w]

That is very interesting , i did not know it was possibly an accident.

[@kevincourtney7312]

The police should have been able to discern the difference so I wonder why they didn't notice?

[@barbaracrain2975]

💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@veltonmeade1057]

I was a big fan of Keith and and I am glad to read it that it was an accident. Thank you!

[@Porsche996driver]

That’s ridiculous. And Putin doesn’t control trump. Riiiight.

[@70sfred1]

So sad that he lost his daughter. I remember watching Family Affair as a kid in the 70's.

[@tooge47]

six months after losing my wife of 14.5 years, MY daughter shot and killed herself..............I honestly can say I feel his pain

[@GinaHarrisToo]

😢😢😢

[@bethanywhite877]

I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. I lost my best friend of 32 years to suicide 7 years ago. It’s a devastating loss.

[@sherrimartin1057]

I am so sorry, you're in my prayers. May they RIP

[@glennabartlett562]

Oh ! My deepest condolences sir. What grief you must be bearing!!❤🇨🇦

[@Fat12219]

💔 😢

[@marlenepearson3936]

I had no idea his Step Mother was the lady who jumped from the Hollywood sign 😮 I loved watching him on Family Affair too. Great show. He truly did have a sad 😔 ending. 😢

[@Omar_Zazzle]

Family Affair was a rotten show. 🤢🤢🤢🤮

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

@@Omar_Zazzle Why?

[@Fat12219]

😢

[@davestark2015]

Suicide is a terrible thing. Their mindset must be just awful at the time. I just lost an old friend to it.

[@straycats6]

Yes, I agree and it bothers me how so many think it is a selfish act but like you said, sometimes the mind just can't escape the darkness

[@sandrablanchette2239]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@jakethedog4397]

I would kill myself too if I lost my daughter. Game over.

[@cht2162]

It's oftentimes the better option, depending on the circumstances.

[@blueskysailing]

I always liked Brian Keith. He was a very talented actor. Very sad to hear about all the sadness in his life. ❤🙏

[@Fat12219]

Brian Keith was a good actor 👏

[@Cindy-xk5vm]

Poor guy. Having the cancer and emphysema is bad enough, then losing a child.

[@straycats6]

Didn't know this

[@KohalaLover]

He lost two children: Michael, age eight (pneumonia) and Daisy.

[@Jewels0007]

Emphysema is Cancer

[@kathidau2869]

That’s sooooo sad😭😭😭 Didn’t know he had lost two children, let alone one. May you RIP, Brian🙏♥️🕊️

[@janetmiller2980]

@@KohalaLover Sorry to hear his son had preceded him in death. Rest In Peace 🕊️ Michael.

[@garystewart2621]

it was a sad ending for him and his daughter, depression is a illness of the mind,my he R.I.P.

[@suryadas6987]

Nice tribute, sir. Thank you and RIP to Mr. Keith 🕊

[@touco9077]

He was a great actor and great human being! RIP Brian Keith ❤

[@VIJER47]

He played Teddy Roosevelt in “The Wind and The Lion” with Sean Connery. I liked all his work and didn’t realize how prolific he was until this video. Thanks!

[@marknewton6984]

Great job as Teddy!

[@gailreese4102]

Such a terribly sad ending! Towards the end of his life, he remarked that cancer treatment hurt more than the cancer itself and there was only so much suffering he could reasonably endure. Losing his daughter, Daisy, some two months before only added to his already suffering. Brian Keith was a remarkably talented man whose legancy lives on in our hearts & in our memories!

[@wannabe41]

I loved him since The Parent Trap. Family Affair and Hardcastle and McCormick only made me love him more. I think of him as dying from a broken heart 💔. R.I.P.

[@Deadfoot-Dan]

He was a great actor, imagine the feeling of being sick with cancer and knowing your daughter took her own life, can't say I would blame anyone for speeding things up.

[@jeffwarren6906]

I absolutely agree Dan .. I believe I would do the same . I can't even imagine losing one of my sons . God bless you & yours Sir

[@marilynspaulding2142]

I loved him in the movie Parent Trap

[@D72T91]

Thank you. I enjoyed Brian in all he did. He really did have a sad ending. 😢

[@scottrider641]

This was so interesting. I didn't realize how many different movies and television shows where he appeared. I remember watching family affair as a young child and growing up with it. Brian Keith was quite the prolific actor. Thank you for bringing us this video

[@macwyll]

They left out he was in a few Alfred Hitchcock eps as well

[@bellagrace9812]

Always watched Family Affair as a child and I absolutely adored his big beautiful smile.❤

[@susanboatman7913]

I loved Brian Keith.

[@ksw501]

If memory serves he was also in a film with Fred Dreyer titled Death Before Dishonor. In this case I think you are right in saying it was a sad ending. May he rest in peace.

[@master-oppressor]

"Keith's friend Maureen O'Hara did not believe Keith died as a result of suicide. She stated that he had a large gun collection and he might have been cleaning the gun, or looking at it, when it went off accidentally. She had just visited him and said he was in good spirits and would not have committed suicide given his Catholic beliefs."

[@RafaelSoltren]

A very underrated actor, so sad the ending………a great actor for sure…….

[@colindeer4908]

A loveable human being let alone , actor. I too enjoyed Brian in the many roles. So sad to have lost his daughter. It must have been too much for him to take and who could blame him. Many thanks for this presentation. I really enjoyed it.

[@achope40]

I will always remember him. Thanks for posting.

[@katharinemarkotan5674]

Recently I've been watching Family Affair again on one of the local channels. I had forgotten just how much I've always liked Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot as well. For a bachelor, he always seemed to know how to handle a problem that the kids were having! Losing a child is such an awful thing to have happen.

[@joycemiller-bean1814]

Thanks for doing this video. I too grew up watching “ Family Affair “ and enjoyed seeing Brian Keith in many films and TV shows: I especially loved his character in “ The Hallelujah Trail”. I was saddened when he committed suicide and always wondered why;thanks for answering that sad question for me.

[@thisisme3238]

Hi Steve! Yes, I remember Brian Keith quite well...I, too was a huge fan of the sitcom, "Family Affair." Thanks for the information about Brian Keith. 😊

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Thanks for using your precious time to watch.

[@markmillward9733]

Definitely a sad middle and ending. RIP.

[@christesta2521]

I always enjoyed watching Brian Keith in all of his movies. I especially liked him in the one of tge very first episodes of The Fugitive and Family Affair. He always expressed patience and compassion in that series.

[@tmorton922]

I never knew how he died. Sad and sadder.

[@visualverbs]

There was a lot of sad endings related to 'Family Affair.' Especially that of Anissa Jones. Family Affair was "must see TV" in our household, growing up.

[@blueskysailing]

Yes, he offered her an acting part on his new program several years after Family Affair ended. She turned it down and soon after she died from an overdose. Anissa was so sweet. Very sad ending for such a talented girl.

[@TheodoreStAmant]

Brian Keith starred in movies and tv shows during his long career in Hollywood

[@KarenCole-s7j]

I love this podcast. Nothing grisly and not trying to dig up any dirt. Just nice bios about famous people. Thank you. It's nice to read about famous people without all the sensationalism.

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Thanks for your kind comment.

[@wardarcade7452]

Amazingly, his onetime colleague Johnny Whitaker has claimed that a few days after Mr. Keith's death, Mr. Whitaker lost control of his car and at that moment he heard the voice of Mr. Keith yell 'Johnny! Duck! Cover! Roll' and Mr. Whitaker DID that and survived despite the top half of his car being sheered off,etc.

[@willomina1990]

Hey!.....one of many Johnny 's drugged out delusions....lol

[@robertjolly3021]

He was great in all roles he played. Talented Individual with such a sad ending. Hard for me to understand. 🙏🙏

[@brigcastle]

Last film I saw him in was Young Guns playing Buckshot Roberts. Small part but he certainly stood out in it and every character he played.

[@Sandra-cm1du]

Brian Keith was great in Nevada Smith. His character befriended Steve McQueen. Excellent movie.

[@edwinrodeo]

Yea great movie, his character reminds me of Will Geer helping Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson Both befriended the main characters. The scene where he remembers Max Sand and is calling his name got me worried he was going to blow his cover. lol 😆

[@magalindababy]

Thank you. I loved Brian Keith, his work was wonderful. Parent trap is my favorite film that I will always remember. He is missed by me. 0:10

[@michaelseavello4612]

Loved the chemistry on "Hardcastle & McCormick.

[@toriwolf5978]

Omg that’s so sad he was so awesome use to watch him on tv Family Fair he was great !!! Brian Kieth will be missed ❤

[@leebryant-y3w]

Love the opening with Mr. French !

[@dyamano]

He was a good actor & sad that his life had to end this way . Sometimes life just crushes you till you have no more will to live . He went thru a lot of heartache on top of his own medical issues. Didn’t know Peg Entwhistle was his step mother ! May he RIP 🕊️✨🕯️❤

[@pumpster999]

Very nice tribute. One of my favorite Hitchcock episodes was when Brian Keith was confined to an iron lung in "No Pain". Anissa Jones was a fellow Class of '76 student, but upon getting her money, didn't last that summer. John Byner did a great Uncle Bill impression.

[@jerryloufretz1797]

I really enjoyed his acting. He was great. Loved Family Affair.

[@valerieladeda]

Oh, I loved watching "Family Affair" when I was a kid. I remember when the daughter died but did not know what happened to the dad. Very sad indeed.

[@JamesWilliams-js4fo]

You ain't never gonna die Holmes! I remember family affair way back in the day. I don't know if people are aware of this but sissy is in a clear captions commercial that's on just about every night. It's like a phone for hearing impaired people.

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

I have seen her in that commercial.

[@_Twayne]

Family Affair, of course! I grew up watching all the first-run episodes, and have enjoyed the reruns many times. BUT! I also really enjoyed his Sheriff Axel Dumire character in the James Michener’s Centennial TV mini-series.

[@jenniferaashiem6165]

Hardcastle and McCormick and Moonlighting were my two favorite shows in the 80s. I was so sad when he died.

[@chuckinnc4184]

I enjoyed Brian in a lot of shows and movies, but my favorite is "The Rare Breed" (1966) with Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Juliette Mills.

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

That's right he was the Scotsman very funny and loved the film and am a huge fan of Maureen O'Hara ❤

[@ERASEREPLACEPLACE]

My favorite Brian Kieth moment was on "A Family Affair". Buffy and Jody, his young niece and nephew, were befriended by some kids in a very poor neighborhood. Uncle Bill (Keith) was a wealthy man, so when he went to the slum to retrieve Buffy and Jody, he was surprised to find them scruffed-up and dirtier than any of the kids who lived in the poor neighborhood! They were so dirty that one of the parents of the poor neighborhood kids (who didn't know Buffy and Jody's uncle was rich) gave Uncle Bill some hand-me-down children's clothes so that he could dress Buffy and Jody better. The LOOK on Uncle Bill's face as he humbly accepted the charity clothing without letting on that he was a wealthy resident of a FAR more upscale neighborhood...

[@johnharrington6657]

Sad story. I remember watching some episodes when i was a very young kid. "Family Affair" definitely had the best intro music of any TV series.

[@CharlesKast-d9b]

Great as Teddy Rosavelt in the Wind And the Lion. Probably my #1 all time favorite movie.

[@tonyarichards5430]

My mom admired him so much my youngest brother is Bryan Keith born in 1971.

[@tarantulady8565]

How sad that his daughter’s choice to unalive herself was a decision that would pretty much end up taking the life of her father too. Because he most likely wouldn’t have unalived himself without her doing it first.

[@CherylthePearl]

It seems he had such a hard troubled life. He was such a great actor. I watched just about everything he was in. 😥

[@marknewton6984]

A fine actor! 😎

[@Sch586]

So sorry his daughter and himself ended their life the way they did. She was so gorgeous.

[@marksongbird7534]

Very easy to like, remember him most from family affair.

[@xray86delta]

Loved Brian Kieth! My favorite performance was as Teddy Roosevelt in "The Wind and the Lion", with Sean Connery and Candice Bergen. Great movie!

[@billyg310]

good actor RIP beautiful soul

[@laylah4710]

So sad. Prayers for his children.

[@williamwelch7]

Thanks Steve

[@s95033]

Loved Brian Keith in The Westerner TV series

[@kellithiede1924]

I adore him from Family Affair.❤️

[@arleneliberti2949]

REST IN HEAVENLY PARADISE MR. KEITH . I LOVED THE SHOW FAMILY AFFAIR . I ALSO LIKED HIM IN THE MOVIE SHARKEY'S MACHINE WITH BURT REYNOLDS.

[@dirkzink9204]

so sad you had sebastion chabot on in the beging.... in 1976 i was in the hospital with him he was in my room in ROYAL JUBILEE hospital i saw his sad ending his wife came in to visit him everyday he had a stroke and he lost his beautiful voice i had a cry with them he was one of my favorite actors

[@GDeanG1963]

Enjoyed Brian's role in the Insight episode Don't Elbow Me Off The Earth (sic?) in 1966.

[@Gumby56]

I met him at a jewelry store in L.A. many years ago, what a nice guy.

[@bender7565]

He seemed to be a nice guy everybody liked, I didn't know about his kiddo and thought it was just about the cancer. Annisa and Sebastion had sad endings.

[@tonyarichards5430]

The original Parent Trap is in my top ten.

[@SherrieLujan]

Iron and Steel in the Palm of His Hand!💡

[@bobbidavis2607]

He good actor Enjoyed he's moving and TV show

[@arribaficationwineho32]

So sad. I always liked him

[@jeremymorrison3494]

He first came on my radar in one of my favourite movies. The McKenzie Break, Regards J

[@Taylod1]

Steve, that was a sad ending. Thank you for sharing

[@glendalorenzojames]

R.I.P., gone but never forgotten

[@stephenr3910]

I remember when that happened. He had been in a TV movie where he played William McKinley not long before.

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I saw him on Broadway do a monologue one-man show called "Da". Brave and iconic.

[@melaniedavis9485]

my condolences

[@KB-rq6ld]

My brother was named after him,BRIAN KEITH BELL,love ya lots bro !!

[@musicgirl8152]

Such a sad ending to a storied life.

[@irisbradley8777]

I enjoyed him so much. So sad when he took his own life.

[@Timbergal]

What a sad sad bunch of a small group of people…his real life daughter and his TV daughter from Family Affair

[@riclafollette9694]

“Nevada Smith” with Steve McQueen is another great movie he was in. He really demonstrated his acting ability in that role.

[@Porsche996driver]

The young girl on the show Buffy, played by Anissa Jones, OD’d and died in 1976. There was a song about it by Angel and the Reruns.

[@jillmarshall4718]

BRIAN KEITH WAS A TERRIFIC ACTOR. HE DID FILMS AND TELEVISION. I LIKED HIM IN HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK. VERY SORRY THAT HE TOOKED HIS OWN LIFE, SUFFERING FROM 2 CANCERS, PLUS LOSING HIS DAUGHTER VERY SAD, RIP MR. BRIAN KEITH🙏

[@edwinrodeo]

Just watched Hardcastle and McCormick this morning. Funny coincidence 😊.

[@macwyll]

Uncle Bee-yol and Mr. Eddie's father, Tom Corbet were the bachelors I wanted to model myself after as a kid when I got older.

[@tracypaxton1054]

It was shocking when he died. He was such a warm presence on TV for so many years. BTW, Peg Entwistle was sure pretty!

[@joycampi7233]

Didn't know Brian was a fellow New Jerseyan! Great career. Knew of him from watching Family Affair. Such a sad, tragic ending to his life. RIP

[@NalaRichenbach]

Very sad when he took his own life, but I understand him not being able to go on without his daughter. I don't like when people have to live their life in misery... and I won't judge either. He was a great actor and I used to watch Family Affair all the time when I was in grade school. I thought he was wonderful in the original "Parent Trap".

[@Picasso_305]

Liked him in the movie "The Violent Road"

[@mikecagle984]

For once you finally got the "sad ending" part right! Keith was a fantastic actor and is truly was sad how his life ended.

[@cybaggs]

The Westerner was a great show. RIP BK

[@reconphil]

I particularly liked Brian Keith in Nevada Smith where he comes across Steve McQueen & mentors his character.

[@magnuswalker7957]

I dont agree that his ending was sad. It was a brave thing to do in my opinion. He went to a better place rather than linger and suffer.

[@MrHeadbanger366]

I also watched Family Affair when I was a kid. I saw him in Reflections in a Golden Eye a long with Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. That's pretty big league company there. I also have to mention Hooper. He was hilarious as the cantankerous Jocko Doyle.

[@Ingrid-b5z]

He just couldn't take the pain ! Anymore 😢😢😢

[@pamelamays4186]

A familiar face on TV for several generations.

[@annagarza7299]

We always watched family affair ❤️

[@Kevin-u6p4n]

He was in a western with Steve McQueen, good movie.