George Keymas
George Keymas was an American film and television actor.
Career
Keymas graduated from Springfield High School.
Keymas began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in Westerns. His first screen appearance was in an uncredited role in the 1950 B-feature film, I Shot Billy the Kid, with lead Don "Red" Barry. Keymas was cast in ethnic, often Native American characters, or cow-punching, at times ruthless, cowboys, in countless film and TV Westerns. He appeared on "Have Gun Will Travel" S2 E19 "The Monster" as Regaldo, which first aired on 1/14/1960.
He portrayed "the Leader" in The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", which originally aired November 11, 1960. His freakish, ambiguous character was seen throughout the episode on a futuristic big-screen monitor as background subplot to the story. In 1962, he played a murderer in "The Nancy Davis Story" on the TV Western Wagon Train.
Keymas's "Indian" roles came in many other popular TV Westerns series of the day, such as Daniel Boone, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza, among many others. Keymas retired in 1977.
Selected filmography
I Shot Billy the Kid - Murphy's Man Border Rangers - Raker, HenchmanMask of the Avenger - Austrian Soldier Actors and Sin - Producer The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima - Prisoner Salome - Sailor Siren of Bagdad - SoradinFlame of Calcutta - Prince JehanThe Robe - Slave The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd - Sailor in the Argus brig King of the Khyber Rifles - Afridi Horseman Bait - ChuckDrums of Tahiti - AngeloThe Raid - Captain Dupree The Black Dakotas - Spotted Deer They Rode West - Torquay The Bamboo Prison - Spiros Metaxas The Prodigal - Scribe Stranger on Horseback - Bannerman's HenchmanWyoming Renegades - George CurryKentucky Rifle - InterpreterSanta Fe Passage - Chief SatankApache Ambush - TweedyThe Vanishing American - CoshantaKismet - Young Policeman Fury at Gunsight Pass - DaleyThe Maverick Queen - MuncieWalk the Proud Land - Ponce Thunder Over Arizona - Harvard 'Shotgun' KellyThe White Squaw - YotahUtah Blaine - Rink WitterThe Storm Rider - Apache KidApache Warrior - ChatoPlunder Road - Officer No. 1 Gunfire at Indian Gap - ScullyCole Younger, Gunfighter - Sergeant Price, State PoliceGunsmoke in Tucson - HondoDeath Valley Days - Toguima, Episode: Mission to the MountainsStuds Lonigan - Gangster Lonely Are the Brave - Deputy He Rides Tall - Ed Harney Arizona Raiders - MontanaBeau Geste - Platoon SergeantJourney to Shiloh - Crooked Gambler The Other Side of Midnight - Dr. K