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  Andrew Keir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Keir as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Andrew Keir (3 April 1926 - 5 October 1997), born Andrew Buggy in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, was a Scottish actor, well-known for his roles in several Hammer Films horror film productions during the 1960s.
Keir, the son of a coal-miner, initially worked in the coal mines of his home town himself, leaving school to become a miner at the age of fourteen.
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 Appeal Court grants Thomas Keir retrial
On 29 February 2000, Thomas Andrew Keir received a sentence of 24 years imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 18 years, for the murder of his first wife Jean Strachan Keir in 1988.
And, because the judge had invited the jury to view the DNA evidence as discrediting a key defence witness who claimed to have seen Jean eight months after her alleged murder, Keir was effectively deprived "of a chance that the jury might have looked at the sighting evidence as grounds to acquit," he said.
Keir was tried for her murder, but acquitted.
cpcabrisbane.org /Kasama/2002/V16n1/Keir.htm   (482 words)

  
 Thomas Keir convicted at last
Keir pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of Rosalina’s murder due to lack of evidence.
He also testified that Thomas Keir was likely to be dangerous in other intimate relationships and that because he had failed to acknowledge what he had done, Keir was a poor prospect for rehabilitation.
So despite Keir’s acquittal for killing Rosalina, her death was very much acknowledged and discussed in court.
cpcabrisbane.org /Kasama/1999/V13n4/Keir.htm   (598 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Andrew Keir : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Keir's other screen assignments have included the role of Agrippa in the 1963 spectacle Cleopatra and the 1971 Hammer horror Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971).
Keir is best known to "Fantastic Cinema" fanatics for his portrayal of Professor Quatermass in the 1967 film Quatermass and the Pit, and for his performance as Wyler in the "Doctor Who" feature Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966).
Andrew Keir was most recently seen in the boisterous historical epic Rob Roy (1995).
www.vh1.com /movies/person/33025/bio.jhtml   (154 words)

  
 Biography for Andrew Keir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The character actor Andrew Keir (originally Andrew Buggy) was born in 1926 in the coal-mining town of Shotts in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and raised there with his five brothers John, Tom, Michael, Patrick, and Hugh and his sister Maggie.
Shortly thereafter, Keir established himself professionally in British theater, television, and film, debuting in The Lady Craved Excitement (1950).
Keir made numerous appearances in television throughout his career, notably in "Adam Smith" (1972) and in the Australian series "The Outsiders" (1976).
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 Andrew Keir @ Filmbug
Andrew Keir (born Andrew Buggy on April 3, 1926 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK; died October 5, 1997 in London, England, UK) was a British actor, well-known for his roles in several Hammer Films horror film productions during the 1960s.
Keir was married to Joyce Scott, and had five children: Andrew, Maureen, Sean, Deidrie and Julie.
Tell us what you think of Andrew Keir in the Filmbug forum...
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 Amazon.co.uk: Quatermass And The Pit [1967]: Video: James Donald,Andrew Keir,Roy Ward Baker,Barbara Shelley,Julian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Keir makes a fine Professor Quatermass and the other actors are also very good.
Keir makes an excellent Quatermass, (easily the best of those who've played him in my opinion) and his supporting cast all work like it was going to be the most important film of that decade.
Andrew Keir, in what is probably his best remembered role, is perfect as Quatermass who is pehaps used here as a linking character instead of a driving character.
www.amazon.co.uk /Quatermass-Pit-James-Donald/dp/B00004CLVT   (2321 words)

  
 Andrew Keir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Keir, originally Andrew Buggy, was born in the coal mining town of Shotts, in Lanarkshire.
Andrew is father to Sean Keir, an actor and producer.
Andrew's work will live on through his great movies and through the work of his children.
www.a2zpeople.com /a/an/andrew+keir.asp   (390 words)

  
 AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Dracula, Prince of Darkness
They encounter blunt but friendly monk, Father Sandor (Andrew Keir), who warns them to stay away from Carlsbad, especially from the castle near there.
Actually, the only one in the movie with interesting dialog at all is Andrew Keir's shrewd Father Sandor (so say the credits -- he's called "Shandor" in the movie), a rifle-carrying outdoorsman of a monk.
Keir is outstanding, brusque, efficient, intelligent; although all those traits apply equally well to his title role in Quatermass and the Pit, his other Hammer movie, Keir totally differentiates between the characters, and Sandor emerges as the hero of the piece.
www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/dracula31.shtml   (1163 words)

  
 Great Character Actors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By now it's probably been noticed that a lot of my favorite character actors are of Scottish descent and there are some great ones including Andrew Keir.
Keir was born April 3, 1926 in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
He worked as a coal miner from the age of 14 to 20 at which time he joined the Glasgow Citizens Theatre where under the guidance of Tyrone Guthrie he became a serious actor.
www.dougmacaulay.com /kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Andrew&actor_last=Keir   (192 words)

  
 Scifilm -- Reviews, QUATERMASS 2 (1957)
So my first introduction to Quatermass as an adult was Andrew Keir in the Hammer QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, then Donlevy in Q2, then in THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT.
After watching Andrew Keir's thoughtful and intelligent performance in Q&TP, Donlevy in Q2 came across as bullish and clumsy.
For the record, neither Keir nor Donlevy is my favorite Quatermass, that distinction goes to John Mills, but that's another review.
www.scifilm.org /reviews/quat2.html   (1539 words)

  
 Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Reviews - Quatermass and the Pit
Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir) and his assistant Barbara Judd (Barbara Shelley).
Cities in flames!” But even here, and in what is left unsaid at the conclusion, the ingeniousness of the movie’s premise, and the force with which Kneale and Baker develop it, keep it firmly on track.
Keir is virile and handsome, and Shelley is a knockout, but their commitment to getting to the center of the mystery that drives the movie is so palpable that you somehow never speculate as to whether or not their relationship extends beyond research.
mappa.mundi.net /reviews/review_004   (1293 words)

  
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 Amazon.com: Dracula - Prince of Darkness: DVD: Christopher Lee,Barbara Shelley,Andrew Keir,Francis Matthews,Suzan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barabara Shelly shines in her role and, along with Lee and Andrew Keir, makes Prince more memorable than it has any right to be.
Andrew Keir's priest makes his first appearence with the ringing sound of gunfire as he shoots his rifle to get their attention.
The conclusion at the Count's castle with Keir trying to kill Dracula with the unique use of his shooting skills is imaginative even if it does stretch credibility.
www.amazon.com /Dracula-Prince-Darkness-Christopher-Lee/dp/6305095469   (2350 words)

  
 DVD REVIEW: QUARTERMASS AND THE PIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was the first in color, and the first not to star Brian Donlevy, who played scientist Bernard Quartermass in "The Quartermass Experiment" in 1956, and "Quartermass II" in 1957.
Ten years later, Hammer revived the series with an intelligent, through-provoking script by Nigel Kneale, and a new Quartermass, played this outing by Andrew Kier.
Kier and co-star Barbara Shelley teamed up two years earlier with Christopher Lee in Hammer's "Dracula: Prince of Darkness." Shelley and James Donald plays scientists who have discovered prehistoric bones in a London Subway excavation.
www.lightviews.com /quartermass.htm   (895 words)

  
 Ultimate AV: Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth)
April 25, 1999 — James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover.
The authorities insist it's simply an unexploded German secret weapon dating from World War II, but investigations by Quatermass (Andrew Keir) point to somewhat more ancient and far-flung origins and a purpose considerably more menacing---one that has been reactivated by the disturbance of the craft's resting place.
Quatermass believes the craft to be part of a five-million-year-old Martian colonizing force unknown to modern history, which is nonetheless encased in our racial memory as the horned devil of age-old superstition.
www.guidetohometheater.com /news/10415/index.html   (475 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Blood From the Mummy's Tomb: DVD: Andrew Keir,Valerie Leon,James Villiers,Hugh Burden,George Coulouris,Mark ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Keir (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT) and the luscious Valerie Leon star in this supernatural shocker based on Bram Stoker's classic novel JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS.
I think Andrew Keir (star of Quatermass and the Pit) - - fleshy, with a sensuous Scottish accent - - was better suited to this role than the thin and flinty Englishman Peter Cushing, who started work on Blood from the Mummy's Tomb but left after his wife died.
The score by Tristram Cary (The Ladykillers, Quatermass and the Pit) is pivotal to the tension.
www.amazon.com /Blood-Mummys-Tomb-Andrew-Keir/dp/B00005KHJO   (2547 words)

  
 The Avengers Forever: Andrew Keir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Scottish actor Andrew Keir gave probably the best screen rendering of Nigel Kneale's scientist hero Professor Quatermass in Hammer's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967).
One of his last works was playing Quatermass again on radio, and he also appeared for the House of Horror several times, notably making a good substitute for Peter Cushing as a no-nonsense monk who takes on Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965).
I seem to be the only person who remembers a mid-80's BBC Scotland series called Murder Not Proven, in which Keir hosted re-enactments of unsolved cases (the title is a legal finding unique to Scottish law).
theavengers.tv /forever/pnote-keir.htm   (134 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966]: Video: Christopher Lee,Barbara Shelley,Terence Fisher,Andrew ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Keir makes a decent Van Helsing substitute, and Barbara Shelly makes a fantastic transformation from buttoned-up, repressed, Victorian madam to sensual nightie-clad vamp.
Her staking by a group of monks is probably the film's great set piece, along with the resurection of Dracula himself.
There are fine performances from all: Gentlemanly heroic Francis Matthews, quite rationally accepting the notion of vampires from barking mad priest Andrew (Quatermass) Kier; Philip Latham as murderous manservant Klove; and Barbara Shelley transforming from prudish Victorian to wanton vamp seductress.
www.amazon.co.uk /Dracula-Prince-Darkness-Christopher-Lee/dp/B00004CLVS   (1777 words)

  
 U.A.E Golf Association - UGA News / Press.
DUBAI May 14 — Andrew Keir fired a sizzling net 66 to win the Grand Final of the UGA Handicap Scheme Medal well ahead of his closest rivals at the sun-drenched Arabian Ranches Golf Club on Saturday.
Playing off a nine handicap, Keir produced some solid golf, rolling in three birdies en route to scoring a gross 75.
Barring a triple bogey seven on the par-4 fifth (stroke index one), Keir was a picture of concentration on a day when many in the field struggled to string together their rounds in hot and humid conditions.
www.ugagolf.com /news/ugaSubNews.asp?news_id=1023   (358 words)

  
 Andrew Keir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Five Million Years to Earth
Excavations in London unearth a mysterious object that may be the spaceship of alien creatures who landed on earth in prehistoric times.
Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) becomes convinced that the aliens still have a trick up their sleeve, but he has a hard time convincing the authorities to listen to him.
Peter Copley, James Donald, Julian Glover, Andrew Keir, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Robert Morris, Edwin Richfield, Barbara Shelley
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=9098-1-PST   (123 words)

  
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Andrew Warfield, Russ Ross, Keir Fraser, Christian Limpach and Steven Hand
Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield and Mark Williamson
Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy Harris, Ian Leslie and Ian Pratt
www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~kaf24   (1275 words)

  
 Andrew Keir - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew Keir - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
Andrew Keir : From TV to the Movie Screen.
www.omega23.com /New_York_to_Malibu/Andrew_Keir.html   (415 words)

  
 Princess Stallion DVD prices at Smarter.com
She meets an animal-loving hermit, Fergus (Andrew Kier), while horsebacking through the beautiful mountains, and beholds a wild white stallion so surreally magnificent that at first she's convinced it's a hallucination.
A pair of villainous poachers decide to capture Sarah and use her to lure the...
A pair of villainous poachers decide to capture Sarah and use her to lure the glorious stallion into their trap.
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 Movie Info for Dracula - Prince of Darkness on MSN Movies
The story begins when two stuffy vacationing couples make an ill-fated stopover at Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian mountains -- despite the warnings of the mysterious Fr.
Sandor (Andrew Keir) and the near-destruction of their coach when the terrified driver runs for his life.
After a slightly tedious stretch, one of the men (Charles Tingwell) is sacrificed in a bloody Satanic ritual, orchestrated by the Count's loyal manservant Klove (Philip Latham) to bring the legendary vampire back to life.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=21080   (200 words)

  
 KEIR RETRIAL VERDICT: GUILTY
THE RETRIAL of Thomas Andrew Keir commenced in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 5 August, 2002.
A jury of eight men and four women found Keir guilty of the murder of his first wife, Jean Angela Strachan Keir.
Submissions on sentencing were heard on 22 November 2002.
cpcabrisbane.org /Kasama/2002/V16n4/Keir.htm   (131 words)

  
 Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Valerie Leon (Margaret Fuchs/Queen Tera), Andrew Keir (Professor Julian Fuchs), James Villiers (Corbeck), Mark Edwards (Tod Browning), Hugh Burden (Jeffrey Dandridge), George Coulouris (Berigan), Aubrey Morris (Dr Putnam), Rosalie Crutchley (Helen Dickerson)
Holt began shooting with Peter Cushing in the role of Professor Fuchs.
However Cushing's muchly beloved wife died and a bereaved Cushing dropped out of the project, whereupon he was replaced by Andrew Keir.
www.moria.co.nz /horror/bloodfrmummystomb.htm   (706 words)

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