- Son, Eric Larsen, with Vera Miles, was born on 30 April 1961 in Burbank, California.
- Best known for starring as Brave Eagle (1955) on TV. He then went on to play Major Robert Rogers in Northwest Passage (1958) and The Aquanauts (1960). All three series lasted one season or less.
- Served in the Navy during WWII and became involved in stage acting in Santa Monica after his discharge.
- On the October 19, 1958, episode of his TV series Northwest Passage (1958), Larsen was relieved of his shirt, stood against a post and flogged. During the "Golden Age" of the TV western, many of its heroes were subjected to similar "stripped-and-whipped" scenes, (Robert Horton in Wagon Train (1957), Ty Hardin in Bronco (1958), Lee Majors in The Big Valley (1965), etc.), but Larsen was the first to feel the lash across his bare back.
- Strapping, dark-haired, ruggedly handsome actor who appeared in mostly secondary roles in a number of 1950s film actioneers. Later produced, directed and wrote his own adventure vehicles.
- Father, with Susan Cummings, of son Keith Larsen Jr..
- Ex-stepfather of Kelley Miles and Debra Miles.
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