Keefe BrasselleFilmography

Adam-12: Night Watch

Synopsis: If Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) thought that they'd pulled light duty when they were assigned to a relatively peaceful part of town, they were sorely mistaken. In the course of a single evening, the two cops are confronted with a plethora of motel robberies, a Read More

Black Gunn

Actors: Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Jim Brown, Tommy Davis, Rick Ferrell, Jay Montgomery, Mark Tapscott

Synopsis: This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell Read More

Death over My Shoulder

Synopsis: Hollywood hasbeen Keefe Brasselle stars in the British Death Over My Shoulder. The resistable Mr. Brasselle plays a detective who is unable to meet the medical payments for his ailing son. Professional killer Bonar Colleano is hired to bump off Brasselle so that the boy will collect the insurance. Read More

The Fighting Wildcats

Synopsis: In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary. A gun battle thwarts the bombing and the mercenary's lover gives her life to protect the Arab. The grieving soldier the goes after the man who hired him. The two foes shoot each other dead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Battle Stations

Actors: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone, William Leslie

Synopsis: Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches. John Lund plays Father Joe McIntyre, who is assigned as chaplain of an Essex-class aircraft carrier. Father Joe finds himself in conflict with the carrier's Captain (Richard Boone Read More

Bring Your Smile Along

Actors: Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers, Lucy Marlow, William Leslie

Synopsis: Blake Edwards made his directorial debut in the bubbly musical comedy Bring Your Smile Along. The story, written by Edwards and his longtime associate-mentor Richard Quine, gets under way when New England schoolmarm Nancy Willows (Constance Towers) heads to New York, there to try her luck as a Read More

Mad at the World

Synopsis: In this downbeat exploitation drama, a vengeful father vents his wrath on the teenage terrors who bashed his baby's head with a booze bottle. With the hospitalized infant teetering toward death and the cops unable to catch the offending punks, the father suffers a blind rage and goes after the Read More

Three Young Texans

Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens, Dan Riss, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Mitzi Gaynor was contractually awarded with top billing in 20th Century-Fox's Three Young Texans, but the film's true star is Jeffrey Hunter. To prevent his father from being blackmailed into committing a train robbery, Johnny Colt (Hunter) pulls off the theft himself. Our hero and his lady friend Read More

The Eddie Cantor Story

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz, Alex Gerry, Jackie Barnett

Synopsis: Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. Cantor is portrayed by Keefe Brasselle, a minor nightclub performer of the 1950s who couldn't hope to come within shouting Read More

Skirts Ahoy!

Actors: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle

Synopsis: Esther Williams generously shares screen time with Joan Evans and Vivian Blaine in Skirts Ahoy! The three leading ladies play WAVE officers who experience a daunting series of romantic misadventures. Whitney Young (Williams) had joined the WAVES after leaving her fiancé at the altar. Conversely Read More

The Unknown Man

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek (Keefe Brasselle) of a murder rap. When it's all over, however, Rudi lets slip a careless comment which leads Mason to believe that his client was guilty after all. Using the evidence at Read More

A Place in the Sun

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

Bannerline

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who devises a heart-tugging promotional stunt. Upon learning that crusty old history teacher Hugo Trimble (Lionel Barrymore) is dying, Mike writes up a glowing tribute, ascribing Read More

Never Fear

Actors: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Hugh O'Brian, Eve Miller, Lawrence Dobkin

Synopsis: The Young Lovers is the more familiar title of a 1950 drama originally released as Never Fear. Sally Forrest plays a beautiful young dancer who is crippled with polio. Forrest's dance partner Keefe Brasselle wants to see her through her illness, but the embittered Forrest prefers to be alone. Only Read More

The Colgate Comedy Hour [TV Series]

It's a Big Country

Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston Read More

Dial 1119

Actors: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Sam Levene, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars as an emotionally disturbed young man who pulls out a gun at a bar and holds the patrons hostage. As the police gather outside, the film concentrates on the various bar Read More

Shame

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman is mortified to discover that she is pregnant. Fortunately, a good friend helps her straighten out her life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of Sin

Actors: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams, Wheaton Chambers

Synopsis: First love leads to unexpected responsibilities and difficult decisions in this well-crafted drama. Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is a free-spirited young woman who is chafing at the restrictions of living at home with her folks and wants to make something of herself. One evening after work, she Read More

Railroaded

Actors: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph, Ed Kelly

Synopsis: One of director Anthony Mann's earlier films, Railroaded features John Ireland as Duke Martin, a seedy criminal looking to skim off of his boss' money. Instead of making the extra cash by his usual means--a small gambling operation run by beautician Clara Cahhoun (Jane Randolph)--Duke (Ireland) Read More

T-Men

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart

Synopsis: The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. O'Brien and his partner Tony Genaro (Alfred Ryder) go undercover to gain the confidence of the ruthless Detroit mob responsible for the phony money. Read More

River Gang

Actors: Gloria Jean, John Qualen, Bill Goodwin, Keefe Brasselle, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: River Gang was another of Universal's attempts to tap the dramatic potential of their young singing star Gloria Jean. The actress plays Wendy, the niece of pawnbroker Uncle Bill (John Qualen). Outwardly a loveable teller of tall tales, Uncle Bill is actually the head of a robbery gang. When murder Read More

Janie

Actors: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film comedies about teenagers. Joyce Reynolds stars as Janie, a typical teen whose life is turned topsy turvy by the installation of a military base near her home town. Edward Arnold Read More

U.S.S. VD: Ship of Shame

Synopsis: The DE 733, a destroyer escort vessel, pulls into port with a gaping hole in her hull from a torpedo attack. At first, her men are curiously silent as to the cause of the disaster that those remaining are so lucky to have escaped. As a Navy commandant (Will Wright) has a casual sit down with the Read More