George Keymas

Known for ActingBorn 1925-11-18Died 2008-01-17Springfield, Ohio, USA

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 CLRRead more

Movies & web series

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Drums of Tahiti

The Twilight Zone

Barbary Coast

Behind Closed Doors

Flame of Calcutta

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Time Tunnel

The Wild Wild West

Lonely are the Brave

The Six Million Dollar Man

The French Atlantic Affair

Law of the Plainsman

Honey West

Alias Smith and Jones

The Magnificent Stranger

The Storm Rider

Ironside

The Invaders

Siren of Bagdad

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

The White Squaw

Startime

Winchester '73

Utah Blaine

Wagon Train

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Not One Shall Die

Arizona Raiders

The Raid

Apache Ambush

Shane

Actors and Sin

Black Saddle

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Wyoming Renegades

Walk the Proud Land

Santa Fe Passage

Johnny Ringo

The Maverick Queen

Gunsmoke in Tucson

Kentucky Rifle

Stranger on Horseback

Beau Geste

Gunfire at Indian Gap

Kismet

Bait

Apache Warrior