Steven Keats
Birthday: Born in 1945-02-06 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 1994-05-08
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steven Keats (February 6, 1945 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor who appeared in such films as Silent Rage, Death Wish, Black Sunday, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and the TV-movie version of the Norman Mailer book The Executioner's Song starring Tommy Lee Jones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Keats, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
The Twilight Zone
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This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy....
S.W.A.T.
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S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg....
Masquerade
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Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983....
Hunter
Character: Jimmy Tomasino (uncredited)
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los ...
Automan
Character: Collins
Automan is an American science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes on ABC between 1983 and 1984....
Matt Helm
Character: Kelly
Matt Helm is an American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Anthony Franciosa....
Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney George Zuckert
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Seventh Avenue
Character: Jay Blackman
A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry....
The Awakening Land
Character: Jake Tench
A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook....
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Character: Hook's Cellmate (uncredited)
Two ambitious vice presidents become rivals when an imminent board room vacancy arises....
The Rockford Files
Character: Duane Bailey
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past....
The A-Team
Character: Ramon
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."...
Moonlighting
Character: Jerry
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other....
Kojak
Character: Danny Zucco
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
The Streets of San Francisco
Character: Bobby Nelson
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work....
MacGyver
Character: Jake Baron
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part gen...
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Dr. Victor March
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Knots Landing
Character: Teddy Becker
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community....
The Executioner's Song
Character: Larry Samuels
The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer, and an Emmy win for star Tommy Lee Jones, who played convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Divided into two parts: the story of the days leading up to Gilmore’s crime spree, and the story of the days leading up to the firing squad....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Stefan Conrad
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Falcon Crest
Character: Howard Pax
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following...
Movie Credits
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
Character: Mike Stapleton
The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to kill all men....
The American Success Company
Character: Rick Duprez
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process....
The Gumball Rally
Character: Kandinsky - Dodge Team
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA....
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Character: Jackie Brown
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums....
Ghost of a Chance
Character: Tom Chance
After Jenny Clifford gets married, the ghost of her first husband comes back. Pilot episode for an unproduced series....
Silent Rage
Character: Dr. Philip Spires
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him....
Turk 182!
Character: jockamo
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city....
Death Wish
Character: Jack Toby
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark....
Hester Street
Character: Jake
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do....
The Gambler
Character: Howie
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him....
Black Sunday
Character: Moshevsky
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl....
Zuma Beach
Character: Jerry McCabe
A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers....
The Last Dinosaur
Character: Chuck Wade
Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur....
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Character: Eddie Richetti
A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty....
Hangar 18
Character: Paul Bannister
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO....
In Dangerous Company
Character: Raymond Ryerson
A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin....
Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg
Character: Peter Orville
A young mother is accused of convincing four teenagers to murder her husband, who she claims abused her during their ten-year relationship....
Sky Riders
Character: Rudy
When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders....
The Executioner's Song
Character: Larry Samuels
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story....
The Ivory Ape
Character: Baxter Mapes
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hunter to track it down and kill it....
For Ladies Only
Character: Mark Brashler
An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre....
Promise Him Anything
Character: Chuck
A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract....
Badge of the Assassin
Character: Lester Bertram Day
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans....
Vibrations
Character: Lieutenant Cray
A musician who lost his hands falls for a woman whose technologically adept friends help him make a comeback....