Charles Keating (actor)
| Charles Keating | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 October 1941 London, England, UK |
| Died | 8 August 2014 (aged 72) Weston, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Keating (1963–2014; his death) |
| Children | 2 children |
Charles Keating (22 October 1941 – 8 August 2014) was an English actor of stage, screen, and television, and a narrator of audiobooks.
Keating was born in London to Roman Catholic parents who had emigrated from Ireland, Charles James Keating and Margaret (née Shevlin) Keating,
Keating moved the United States via Canada with his family as a teenager. He was working as a hair dresser in Buffalo, New York when a customer suggested he try out for a local play, making his stage debut in 1959 with the Buffalo Studio Theatre.
Keating found steady work with the Cleveland Play House repertory company and was on tour when he met his future wife, actress Mary Chobody. The two were married in 1964 while Keating was serving in the US Army and directing plays for its entertainment division at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Keating later acted at the Charles Playhouse in Boston before eventually joining the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. In 1971, he was asked by Tyrone Guthrie in 1971 to move back to England and open the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
He appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon before turning to television (he was in the pilot episode of the long-running ITV series Crown Court in 1972), winning the roles of Ernest Simpson in Edward & Mrs. Simpson and Rex Mottram in ITV's Brideshead Revisited. In 1978 on the BBC Shakespeare series, he played the role of Rutland, Duke of Aumerle, in Richard II.
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