schools have launched a massive COVID-19 testing program in hopes of reopening campuses.L.A. Keith O'Brien Trending: 2,415th This Week. Keith Leo O'Brien keith@keithlobrien.com 516-993-7667 I am a voice talent with a warm sound that is friendly, versatile,crisp, sophisticated and guy next door type. He is a voice actor able to express the subtle emotions unique to each story. TIMES STAFF WRITER It’s embarrassing. Keith is survived by his wife, actress Victoria Young.The former Bush White House communications director will see her daytime show “Dateline: White House” expand to two hours daily.L.A. He once complained that “all TV seems to want is tripe.” And he acknowledged that his own pet project, “The Brian Keith Show,” “didn’t work because it wasn’t good.”Throughout his career, Keith delighted in creating gruff, rough characters--but he preferred them realistic.

All told, he made more than 80 films.Refreshingly blunt--like many of the characters he played-- Keith never hesitated to say what he thought about his various show business projects.He boasted of telling CBS executives “to go fly a kite” when they suggested toning down his series “The Westerner” to make it appropriate for children.

As late as 1994, he earned a warm review for playing a grumpy investigator in a CD-ROM detective adventure called “Under the Killing Moon.” “He was a crusty old character, but a lot of fun,” agent Paul Doherty, whose firm handled Keith’s work in commercials, told the Associated Press. ALL; MOVIES (1) Filters: ALL CREDITED ROLES Rapunzel (2011 Movie) Encantado. His mother, Helena Shipman, was an actress. Credits On BTVA: 1 Role from 1 Title.

Yes, he says, it’s really as bad as you’ve heard.People staying home with air conditioners blasting, plus a dearth of power from other states results in the worst statewide energy shortage in nearly 20 years“It’s near certain that we will be forced to ask the utilities to cut off power to millions today to balance supply and demand — today, tomorrow and perhaps beyond.” Permission to copy or reproduce in any format must be sought from Keith O'Brien by emailing keithobrien@ukgateway.net. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks about experiencing COVID-19. Take a visual walk through his career and see 1 image of the character he voiced.

I’m not an avenging angel.”Much more to Keith’s taste was his role as the rumpled, plain-spoken cowboy in “The Westerner"--a character so down-to-earth that he was known to fall off a horse on occasion.“The greatest satisfaction is in cow towns where guys come out of doorways and grab me to tell me how good the series was,” he said a few months after “The Westerner” wrapped up in 1960.But much as he relished his work in westerns, Keith did not achieve national celebrity until he took the role of Uncle Bill--the reluctant guardian of Buffy, Jody and Cissy--in the CBS sitcom “Family Affair,” which ran from 1966 to 1971.Blending his trademark gruffness with a hint of tenderness, Keith played Uncle Bill as a swinging bachelor whose life was thrown into chaos when he was forced to raise his orphaned nieces and nephew with help from his English butler, Mr. French.

Keith O'Brien. Official website of actor and voice artist Keith L.O'brien. He was 75 and reportedly had been suffering from cancer.Keith, who debuted in show business at 3, forged a varied career for himself, starring in comedies, dramas and westerns and picking up plum roles in film and on television--and most recently on CD-ROM.He co-starred in the 1961 Disney movie “The Parent Trap” and during his long career played opposite many legendary leading ladies, including Bette Davis, Ginger Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor.