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 chara…
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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