Editing Brian Keith (section)

===''Family Affair''===
[[File:Family affair 1967.JPG|thumb|right|Keith (center right) with [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]] (top) and the other costars of ''[[Family Affair]]'']]
In 1966, Keith landed the role of Uncle Bill Davis on [[CBS]]'s popular television situation comedy ''[[Family Affair]]''.  This role earned him three [[Emmy Award]] nominations for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Comedy Series|Best Actor in a Comedy Series]].<ref name="TVguide">{{Cite web
| url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/brian-keith/bio/142765
| title=Brian Keith Biography
| website=[[TV Guide]]
| access-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref> The show made him a household name. It was in the vein of successful 1960s and 1970s sitcoms that dealt with widowhood and/or many [[single-parent]] issues, such as ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', ''[[My Three Sons]]'', ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'', ''[[One Day at a Time (1975 TV series)|One Day at a Time]]'', ''[[Here's Lucy]]'', ''[[Julia (1968 TV series)|Julia]]'', ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)|The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]'', ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', ''[[The Partridge Family]]'', and ''[[Sanford and Son]]''. During its first season in 1966, ''Family Affair'' was an immediate hit, ranking number 15 in the [[Nielsen ratings]].<ref name="dvd">{{cite web
| url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31556/family-affair-season-four/
| title=Family Affair-Season Four
| author=Mavis, Paul 
| date=December 1, 2007
| website=[[DVD Talk]]
| access-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref>  By the end of its fifth season, in 1971, ''Family Affair'' still had high ratings, but was cancelled after 138 episodes.

[[Kathy Garver]], who co-starred as Keith's teenaged niece, Cissy, on ''Family Affair'', indicated that Keith said: "I'm a cultural Irishman, don't you know, I'm a cultural Irishman."  Garver explained: "But he went through many manifestations and changes of character, during the five years that we shot. At first, he was up and then his second year, he was going through a divorce, and then, the third year, he met somebody else, and he became more anecdotal and told stories that he loved kids, and he was very outspoken about those that he did not like. So, he was a very interesting character and it was Brian and Sebastian Cabot [who played Mr. French] had such a different style of acting and that's another reason I think that ''Family Affair'' was so popular and stayed as it did. Both excellent actors, both coming from very different methods and styles of acting with Sebastian was more from the classical style and he would take home his script and he would dutifully look at every single word and have it to perfection, and then Brian would come in and say, 'Oh what do we have today? Let me see the scene, uh-huh, uh-huh, let's go!' So he was very improvisational, motion of the moment. And those two different styles really worked out for each of them very well."<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://onscreenandbeyond.com/OSBseason3Reruns.htm
| title=OSB Episode 120
| date=July 11, 2010
| website=On Screen & Beyond
| access-date=August 29, 2015}}</ref>

During the series' run Keith appeared in ''[[Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)|Reflections in a Golden Eye]]'' (1967) with [[Marlon Brando]], ''[[With Six You Get Eggroll]]'' (1968) with [[Doris Day]], ''[[Krakatoa: East of Java]]'' (1968) for Cinerama, and ''[[Gaily, Gaily]]'' (1969) for Norman Jewison. He had leading roles in ''[[Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?]]'' (1970) for Cinerama and ''[[The McKenzie Break]]'' (1970).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Break' Role for Keith|author=Martin, Betty|date=October 18, 1968|work=Los Angeles Times|page=f18}}</ref> In 1970, Keith moved to Hawaii.<ref name="archer">{{cite news|title=Brian Keith's playing Lew Archer--but with Hawaii on his mind|author=Smith, Cecil|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 26, 1975|page=q2}}</ref> Keith made ''[[Scandalous John]]'' (1971) for Disney, ''[[Something Big (film)|Something Big]]'' (1972) with Dean Martin and director [[Andrew McLaglen]], and the TV movie ''[[Second Chance (1972 film)|Second Chance]]'' (1972).<ref>{{Cite news|title=MOVIE CALL SHEET: 'big' Role for Carol White|author=Martin, Betty|date=February 19, 1971|work=Los Angeles Times|page=i9}}</ref>