George Keymas (November 18, 1925 â€" January 17, 2008) was an American
film and television actor.Popular pockmarked, American film and
television actor began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in popular
western fare of the day. 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. Due to his rugged looks, Keymas was
cast in ethnic, often Native-American characters, or cow-punching, at
times ruthless, cowboys, in countless film/TV westerns.Oddly, likely
his most recognizable role was the brief and unrecognizable character
as ‘The Leader’ in the classic TV 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 sub-plot to the story.In
1969, Keymas played the Ute chief Black Wing in the episode "A Key for
the Fort" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days,
hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the
episode Eliza Stewart Udall, as Miss Ella Stewart, sends the first
telegraph message from Arizona and works with her Aunt Cora (Ivalou
Redd) to nurse Black Wing back to health. The episode also stars Gregg
Palmer as Jacob. It was filmed at Pipe Spring National Monument in
Utah. Ella Stewart is an ancestor of the Udall family of southwestern
politics.
film and television actor.Popular pockmarked, American film and
television actor began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in popular
western fare of the day. 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. Due to his rugged looks, Keymas was
cast in ethnic, often Native-American characters, or cow-punching, at
times ruthless, cowboys, in countless film/TV westerns.Oddly, likely
his most recognizable role was the brief and unrecognizable character
as ‘The Leader’ in the classic TV 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 sub-plot to the story.In
1969, Keymas played the Ute chief Black Wing in the episode "A Key for
the Fort" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days,
hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the
episode Eliza Stewart Udall, as Miss Ella Stewart, sends the first
telegraph message from Arizona and works with her Aunt Cora (Ivalou
Redd) to nurse Black Wing back to health. The episode also stars Gregg
Palmer as Jacob. It was filmed at Pipe Spring National Monument in
Utah. Ella Stewart is an ancestor of the Udall family of southwestern
politics.
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