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Currently, Richard Keats is 60 years, 7 months and 13 days old. Richard Keats will celebrate 61rd birthday on a Tuesday 8th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Richard Keats upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Richard Keats |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 60 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 8, 1964 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) |
| Birthday | April 8 |
| Town/City | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Richard Keats’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Richard Keats was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Grew up in the idyllic land of 10,000 lakes and Hockey-filled winters. The call of the west lured him to Southern California, where he graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Degree in Philosophy.
Headed for law school, he took an acting class where the acting addiction began. Since, he continued his acting studies under the tutelage of Robert Cohen, the author of the acclaimed acting book: 'Acting Power'.
Professional highlights include: Head-lining in the Cult feature film, "APEX" that received a U.S. nation-wide release from Republic Pictures. In it he first infected the world with a deadly virus and then time traveled to fight Robots and save the world, or something like that! From this he received his only 'Variety' review where his acting garnered his favorite acting adjective, "Compelling".
At the same time he was seen around the world starring in "Canyon" Kellogg's most famous Crunchy Nut Commercial that ran for over 5 years world wide. These two roles were the answer to a Hard Rock Cafe 'London' napkin trivia question and made traveling a lot lighter on his pocket book (bar tabs) .
..as soon as he mentioned the commercial, people would imitate him, "I'm coming' down!"One of those trips was to Cannes, as he starred in the short film, "The Beast" with Roscoe Lee Browne & Martha - the 'chimp' from the Clint Eastwood Movies.
Mimi Rogers played Martha's voice. The short film was nominated as one of the five finalists in the Main Draw at the Cannes Film Festival. His stories of that trip are worthy of a Henry Miller-esque adventure.
He also enjoyed shooting, 'I Got the Hook Up' with Master P & Joe Estevez. In it he played a black man undercover as a white FBI agent. He and Joe's parts grew dramatically during the shooting and Miramax picked it up for distribution.
Perhaps his favorite role of all-time was in the German Feature film, 'Marlene', also known in Germany as Marlene Dietrich - where he played Travis Benton her flamboyant costume designer. The film was about Germany's most coveted star, Marlene Dietrich.
Mostly shot in Berlin and Paramount Studios. In Berlin, he had a chauffeur and was treated like a real movie star. Boy did he feel like an imposter! On the first day of filming he pranced thru the long scene introducing his character and when he finally entered frame with Katja Flint who was playing Marlene, she spoke her lines in German!! where he thought: 'Oh My God! I have to Quit Lying on my Resume" When her mouth stopped moving he replied in English.
Then, a tall hat he had just placed on a mannequin fell forward and he jumped. The director Joseph Vilsmaier (Golden globe nominee) clapped and everyone cheered as we got that intricate shot in one take.
Later, after a screening of the film at AFM a viewer came up to him and said he spoke perfect German!He also enjoyed his time as Dr. Lockhart on the CW show "Arrow". He has played a doctor in over 20 episodes on various shows.
He also had played in commercials (including Nestlé's worldwide dog & cat food Dr. Ballard's. He also modeled as a Doctor in many print ads and was the 'doctor face' of several hospitals.Fun Fact: The whole Doctor thing began in an Optometrist shop in the Fairfax District of Hollywood.
Up until this point he have had no luck getting an agent in Hollywood. While a friend was trying on glasses, he picked up and put on a large round wire-rim pair when he heard: "Doc-ta? Doc-ta can you help us?" He turned to two little ladies right out of Central Casting and said, "Are you talking to me?" And they said, "Oh, and so handsome!" He turned to the cashier and said "I'll take these.
" After that, he got a commercial agent - one of his favorite's of all time, Richard Reiner. Ever since, his commercial, modeling, and 'Doctor' career took off.Currently, he's working as an actor in the picturesque city of Vancouver, BC where he is also teaching acting at the Acting Conservatory Program at New Image College.
He is also writing a book on acting.
