- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Arthur Keating
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Tom Keating was born on September 2, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on August 31, 2012 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- [on sports movies] They run the same things over and they should have more fades and zooms, catch little vignettes on the bench, paste together a couple of fight scenes. These are the only movies I can fall asleep at.
- [on his favorite film] Everybody hated Citizen Kane (1941) at first. Nobody showed up to see it and they pulled it out of distribution for five years. It had such a different style: that telescoping of time, for instance, when Orson Welles read the newspaper at breakfast with his wife, Ruth Warrick.
- [on his voracious appetite for film] I like the old B movies, westerns, detectives, John Wayne, Woody Allen... I'm of the persuasion that I'll watch anything once. As bad as a movie is, there's always something good in it. And the movies that have a lot of good things, they're the successful ones... How about Wayne as Rooster shooting those rats in True Grit (1969)? How about Bogey's stomach grumbling as Charley Allnut in The African Queen (1951)? How about 'Busby Berkeley' musicals and Singin' in the Rain (1952)? How about Red River (1948) and Stagecoach (1939) and Last Tango in Paris (1972)? I don't know if we'll ever see one like 'Tango' again.
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