George Keymas

George Keymas


George Keymas (November 18, 1925 – January 17, 2008) was an American film and television actor.


Keymas graduated from Springfield (Ohio) High School.


Keymas began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in Westerns. His first screen appearance was in an uncredited role in the 1950 B-feature film, I Shot Billy the Kid, with lead Don "Red" Barry. Keymas was cast in ethnic, often Native American characters, or cow-punching, at times ruthless, cowboys, in countless film and TV Westerns. He appeared on "Have Gun Will Travel" S2 E19 "The Monster" as Regaldo, which first aired on 1/14/1960.


He portrayed "the Leader" in The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", which originally aired November 11, 1960. His freakish, ambiguous character was seen throughout the episode on a futuristic big-screen monitor as background subplot to the story. In 1962, he played a murderer in "The Nancy Davis Story" on the TV Western Wagon Train.


Keymas's "Indian" roles came in many other popular TV Westerns series of the day, such as Daniel Boone, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza, among many others. Keymas retired in 1977.


Selected filmography


I Shot Billy the Kid (1950) - Murphy's Man (uncredited)


Border Rangers (1950) - Raker, Henchman


Mask of the Avenger (1951) - Austrian Soldier (uncredited)


Actors and Sin (1952) (segment "Woman of Sin") - Producer


The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) - Prisoner (uncredited)


Salome (1953) - Sailor (uncredited)


Siren of Bagdad (1953) - Soradin


Flame of Calcutta (1953) - Prince Jehan


The Robe (1953) - Slave (uncredited)


The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (1953, Serial) - Sailor in the Argus brig (uncredited)


King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) - Afridi Horseman (uncredited)


Bait (1954) - Chuck


Drums of Tahiti (1954) - Angelo


The Raid (1954) - Captain Dupree (uncredited)


The Black Dakotas (1954) - Spotted Deer (uncredited)


They Rode West (1954) - Torquay (uncredited)


The Bamboo Prison (1954) - Spiros Metaxas (uncredited)


The Prodigal (1955) - Scribe (uncredited)


Stranger on Horseback (1955) - Bannerman's Henchman


Wyoming Renegades (1955) - George Curry


Kentucky Rifle (1955) - Interpreter


Santa Fe Passage (1955) - Chief Satank


Apache Ambush (1955) - Tweedy


The Vanishing American (1955) - Coshanta


Kismet (1955) - Young Policeman (uncredited)


Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) - Daley


The Maverick Queen (1956) - Muncie


Walk the Proud Land (1956) - Ponce (uncredited)


Thunder Over Arizona (1956) - Harvard 'Shotgun' Kelly


The White Squaw (1956) - Yotah


Utah Blaine (1957) - Rink Witter


The Storm Rider (1957) - Apache Kid


Apache Warrior (1957) - Chato


Plunder Road (1957) - Officer No. 1 (uncredited)


Gunfire at Indian Gap (1957) - Scully


Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958) - Sergeant Price, State Police


Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958) - Hondo


Death Valley Days (1960) - Toguima, Episode: Mission to the Mountains


Studs Lonigan (1960) - Gangster (uncredited)


Lonely Are the Brave (1962) - Deputy (uncredited)


He Rides Tall (1964) - Ed Harney (uncredited)


Arizona Raiders (1965) - Montana


Beau Geste (1966) - Platoon Sergeant


Journey to Shiloh (1968) - Crooked Gambler (uncredited)


The Other Side of Midnight (1977) - Dr. K


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  • Known For

    Acting

  • Born

    1925-11-18

  • Place of Birth

    Springfield, Ohio, USA

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