Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor.<p>He was born in New York, New York as Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn, the son of Jewish American vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn, and his Irish-American Catholic wife, the former Hilda Keenan, but took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood.<p>Keenan Wynn became an actor after Ed Wynn's encouragement, and the two appeared together in the original television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956) as well as a subsequent television drama detailing the problems they'd experienced together while working on that show called The Man in the Funny Suit (1960); the Wynns, Serling, and much of the rest of the cast and crew played themselves.<p>Keenan Wynn appeared in hundreds of movies...
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