In Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Wynn took a dramatic turn as Yost in the crime drama Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin. He appeared in numerous television series, such as the ABC/Warner Brothers drama, The Roaring 20s, The Islanders, and the ABC western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Wynn played the role of Kodiak, the "troubleshooter", for Mathias's Frank Dugan. In the 1959-1960 television season, Wynn co-starred with Bob Mathias in NBC's The Troubleshooters, an adventure program about unusual events surrounding an international construction company. He had an uncredited role in Touch of Evil (1958). His early post-war credits include Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Royal Wedding (1951), Kiss Me, Kate (1953), Battle Circus (1953), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Son of Flubber (1963) and Dr.
He was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1940s and 1950s. The Hucksters (1947) Wynn appeared in hundreds of films and television shows between 19.
Keenan also featured in another Rod Serling production, a The Twilight Zone episode entitled, "A World of His Own" (1960) as playwright Gregory West, who uniquely caused series creator Rod Serling to disappear. In it, the Wynns, Serling, and much of the cast and crew played themselves. He also appeared in a subsequent TV drama called The Man in the Funny Suit, which detailed the problems they had experienced while working on that show.
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The son was returning the favor: according to radio historian Elizabeth McLeod, it was Keenan who had helped his father overcome professional collapse, a harrowing divorce and a nervous breakdown to return to work a decade earlier, and who now helped convince Serling and producer Martin Manulis that the elder Wynn should play the wistful trainer. His father was Jewish and his mother was of Irish Catholic background.Įd Wynn encouraged his son to become an actor, and the two appeared together in the original Playhouse 90 television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight. He took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood. His expressive face was his stock in trade, and though he rarely carried the lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and television parts.Įarly life and career Wynn was born in New York City as Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn, the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and his wife, the former Hilda Keenan. He earned a 4.0 average in his third semester at City College and became a student leader and peer mentor.Keenan Wynn (J– October 14, 1986) was an American character actor. ceremony, and he bought one of the Dalai Lama’s books to read before meeting His Holiness.Īlthough he missed the social interaction of grade school, hung out with the wrong crowd and confesses he still can’t write cursive, Flahive quickly made up for lost classroom time. His first response to joining the Dalai Lama in front of an audience of 25,000? “I’m speechless,” says Flahive, as well as “terrified,” “blown away” and “humbled.” But he assures me he will have a speech for the 10 a.m.
And to City College’s First Year Experience program which mandates student and career counseling, tutorial sessions and peer mentoring. But he did, thanks, in part, to his grandparents, who offered to let him sleep on their floor in Chula Vista. “I didn’t see myself ever going to two years of City College, let alone to UCSD, much less graduating from UCSD,” says Flahive (pronounced Flay-hive), now 23. He personifies Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso’s keynote address: “The Value of Education, Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Being of Self and Others.”