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Andrew Keir (Andrew Buggy) was born on 3 April, 1926 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a Scottish actor. Discover Andrew Keir's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

Popular As Andrew Buggy
Occupation Actor
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April 1926
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Date of death 5 October, 1997
Died Place London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Andrew Keir Height, Weight & Measurements

At 71 years old, Andrew Keir height is 6' (1.83 m) .

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Height 6' (1.83 m)
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Who Is Andrew Keir's Wife?

His wife is Julia Wallace (m. 1948-1977) Joyce Parker Scott (m. 1977)

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Wife Julia Wallace (m. 1948-1977) Joyce Parker Scott (m. 1977)
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Children 5, including Julie T. Wallace

Andrew Keir Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Andrew Keir worth at the age of 71 years old? Andrew Keir’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Andrew Keir's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1678

His final major acting role was as John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1678–1743) in the film Rob Roy (1995), although he also played a prominent role as Fergus in The Princess Stallion in 1997, the year of his death.

Argyll was another role that became one of his favourites.

1926

Andrew Keir (né Buggy, 3 April 1926 – 5 October 1997) was a Scottish actor who appeared in a number of films made by Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s.

1940

He was also active in television, and especially in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s.

1948

From 1948 until 1977, he was married to Julia Wallace, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.

1950

Keir made his film debut in 1950 in The Lady Craved Excitement, and performed in his first major screen role in The Brave Don't Cry (1952).

The film concerned the rescue of a group of miners trapped underground after an accident in the pit, with Keir playing a miner who places a bet on a horse race via the mine's telephone system while trapped; he was given the final line of dialogue, as he emerges from the pit following his rescue and asks who won the race.

He began to win increasingly prominent film roles throughout the course of the 1950s, appearing in the Ealing comedy The Maggie (1954) and the Titanic film A Night to Remember (1958), in which he portrayed 2nd Engineer John Henry Hesketh He played Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the 1963 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor vehicle Cleopatra.

Keir also continued to act on the stage.

He had first appeared on television on the BBC in the early 1950s, and through that decade and into the 1960s continued to make guest appearances in a range of programmes, including Danger Man, Dr Finlay's Casebook, The Avengers and Z Cars.

1959

He played Robert Burns in the pageant I, Robert Burns in 1959, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the poet.

1960

He originated the role of Thomas Cromwell in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons (1960).

His obituary in The Times described him as possessing "considerable range and undeniable distinction."

Keir was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was the son of a coal miner, and had five brothers and one sister.

At 14, he left school to work down the coal mine alongside his father.

He started acting by chance, when he went to meet a friend at the Miners' Welfare Hall, and one member of the cast of an amateur dramatics production being performed at the Hall had failed to turn up.

Keir was persuaded to take the minor role of a farmer in the play, and enjoyed the experience so much that he later became a regular in the group's performances.

The group entered a competition in Inverness, where Keir's talent was spotted and he was offered the chance to become a professional actor at the Unity Theatre in Glasgow.

Since this was after the start of the Second World War, he could not easily leave his occupation as a miner; he was only able to accept the offer after he obtained a medical diagnosis of pneumoconiosis, which freed him from his work in the mine.

After a few months at the Unity Theatre, he was offered a place at Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre by director Tyrone Guthrie.

He accepted, and remained with the Citizens Theatre company for nine years.

At the Citizens', he was a contemporary of Phyllida Law and Fulton Mackay; Keir and Mackay used to escort Law from the theatre to the local tram stop so that she would not be accosted by local gangs because of the English accent that she had developed at drama school.

In 1960 Keir initiated the role of Thomas Cromwell in the original theatrical production of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons.

Keir's performance in this part was praised by The Times as being "an arresting figure".

1962

He appeared in Pirates of Blood River (1962), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), The Viking Queen (1967) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971).

1964

In 1964, he was a member of the original West End cast of Lionel Bart's musical Maggie May, playing the trade union leader.

1966

In 1966, Keir joined the cast list of the second Doctor Who big screen adventure, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., alongside Peter Cushing.

1967

He starred as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Hammer's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967).

He also appeared in the big screen version of the Doctor Who story The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966).

By far his most prominent role for Hammer came in 1967's Quatermass and the Pit; this remained one of Keir's personal favourite roles of his career, and his obituary in The Independent claimed that "Keir's mixture of gruff determination, intelligence and quirkiness made him the definitive professor."

1968

He appeared in a 1968 episode of the ITV series, The Saint. However, it was in films where he became most prominent during the 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in Hammer's famous range of "Hammer Horror" productions.

1970

Keir continued to appear on screen throughout the 1970s and 80s, in films such as Zeppelin (1971) and The Thirty Nine Steps (1978).

He also continued to have success with television roles; the Australian series The Outsiders demonstrated again the wide range of types that he could convincingly play, but brought him less praise than the BBC series Workhorses, for which he was nominated for BAFTA Scotland's Best Actor award.

1977

In 1977, he married Joyce Parker Scott, who survived him, along with his five children from his previous marriage.

One of his daughters is the actress Julie T. Wallace.

1990

He continued appearing in TV series well into the 1990s, appearing as Macrae of Balbuie in two series of the BBC Scotland drama series Strathblair, and guest starring in an episode of Hamish Macbeth in a part that was written especially for him; the series was produced by his daughter, Deidre.

1996

His final professional engagement was resuming the role of Quatermass for the 1996 BBC radio serial The Quatermass Memoirs.

This final performance was praised by The Independent: "This series has so far been hugely enjoyable - thanks in large part to Andrew Keir, who recreates the role of Quatermass in dramatic interludes; lesser actors would treat Kneale's downbeat script with a certain detachment, but Keir is prepared to charge even the most banal lines with a terror that's both a treat and a lesson."

1997

Keir died in hospital in London, aged 71, on 5 October 1997.