Geoffrey Keen - 6438

British character actor, often playing an austere, irritable-looking man.

Keen has a huge list of films to his credit, including The Third Man (1947), Treasure Island (1950), Cry the Beloved Country (1951), Meet Mr Lucifer (1953), Genevieve (1953), Doctor in the House (1954), Yield to the Night (1956), A Town Like Alice (1956), The Angry Silence (1960), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Born Free (1965) and Cromwell (1970).

He is probably best remembered for his 6 appearances as Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence, in James Bond films, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and ending with The Living Daylights (1987).

This is a fine black and white National Film Archive photograph (8" x 10") of a scene from Cry The Beloved Country (1951), signed across a lighter area of the image in blue ink. In very good condition.