Dennis OKeefe March 29 1908 August 31 1968 was an American actor He was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States As a small child he joined his parents act and later wrote skits for the stage OKeefe started in films as an extra in the early 1930s After a small but impressive role in Saratoga Clark Gable recommended OKeefe to MetroGoldwynMayer which signed him to a contract in 1937 His film roles were bigger after that starting with The Bad Man of Brimstone and Burn Em Up OConnor OKeefe left MGM around 1940 but continued to work in mostly lower budget productions In the 1950s he did some directing wrote mystery stories and by the mid1950s found work on television shows such as Justice The Martha Raye Show The Ford Show as well as his own series The Dennis OKeefe Show
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