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 Daniel was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago. He began studying voice in his last year of high school, and after graduation, attended Wright Jr. College, majoring in music. During the summer break after his freshman year, he took an acting workshop at Columbia College and got hooked on the challenge of acting. So the following fall, instead of returning to college, he enrolled as a full-time student at the prestigious, Goodman Theater School of Drama, the Theater Arts arm of the Chicago Art Institute. Following Goodman, he volunteered for the draft and served a hitch in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany. Upon full-filling his tour of duty, he moved to New York City, taking up residence in Manhattan, and resumed his studies at the HB Studio, studying first with Herbert Berghof, and then with Uta Hagen. While working at various survival jobs as he attended acting classes, he also continued to study voice, and also began dance training, starting jazz dance with Matt Mattox and soon after, classical ballet at the Ballet Russe.When the summers came around, he would interrupt his training by leaving town to work in summer stock, then return to the city in the fall and resumed his pursuits. After only a year and a half of an intense training schedule, and desperate for a job in a show, he gave a go at his first Equity dance audition and won the gig. After relocating to California, he was dancing in an Equity musical comedy stage show within a month after he arrived in Hollywood, and continued to perform in shows for the first year and a half, all the while continuing his training between shows at the American School of Dance, until he was signed by a top commercial and modeling agency and immediately began to work in TV commercials and print. With auditions, fittings and bookings, there was hardly enough convenient time to continue to go to dance class regularly, so he withdrew from the discipline and quit dancing. He focused instead on the much more lucrative activity of working in advertising media. At the same time however, he concentrated again on his singing, starting with performing at the, Horn, in Santa Monica, a nightclub venue that was to singers, what the various comedy clubs are to stand-up comedians, a place to try material and perform in a club environment. He also continued with acting classes, studying with Estell Harman and then with Stella Adler every summer that she would come out from New York to teach her master class in Los Angeles. During other times he studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, musical scene study with Charles Nelson Reilly and audition presentation with David Craig, and continued voice training with various teachers and coaches. In his late thirties, as a personal challenge to see what sort of shape he could get back into, he returned to jazz dance classes at the Roland Dupre' dance facility and gave it a go for about a year, until the reality of diminished capacity convinced him to put his dance bag away for good. Also, by then he was working as an actor in all venues of media. Presently, he is semi-retired and lives in the Cahuenga Pass area of the Hollywood Hills.
Bio:
Daniel was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago. He began studying voice in his last year of high school, and after graduation, attended Wright Jr. College, majoring in music. During the summer break after his freshman year, he took an acting workshop at Columbia College and got hooked on the challenge of acting. So the following fall, instead of returning to college, he enrolled as a full-time student at the prestigious, Goodman Theater School of Drama, the Theater Arts arm of the Chicago Art Institute. Following Goodman, he volunteered for the draft and served a hitch in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany. Upon full-filling his tour of duty, he moved to New York City, taking up residence in Manhattan, and resumed his studies at the HB Studio, studying first with Herbert Berghof, and then with Uta Hagen. While working at various survival jobs as he attended acting classes, he also continued to study voice, and also began dance training, starting jazz dance with Matt Mattox and soon after, classical ballet at the Ballet Russe.When the summers came around, he would interrupt his training by leaving town to work in summer stock, then return to the city in the fall and resumed his pursuits. After only a year and a half of an intense training schedule, and desperate for a job in a show, he gave a go at his first Equity dance audition and won the gig. After relocating to California, he was dancing in an Equity musical comedy stage show within a month after he arrived in Hollywood, and continued to perform in shows for the first year and a half, all the while continuing his training between shows at the American School of Dance, until he was signed by a top commercial and modeling agency and immediately began to work in TV commercials and print. With auditions, fittings and bookings, there was hardly enough convenient time to continue to go to dance class regularly, so he withdrew from the discipline and quit dancing. He focused instead on the much more lucrative activity of working in advertising media. At the same time however, he concentrated again on his singing, starting with performing at the, Horn, in Santa Monica, a nightclub venue that was to singers, what the various comedy clubs are to stand-up comedians, a place to try material and perform in a club environment. He also continued with acting classes, studying with Estell Harman and then with Stella Adler every summer that she would come out from New York to teach her master class in Los Angeles. During other times he studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, musical scene study with Charles Nelson Reilly and audition presentation with David Craig, and continued voice training with various teachers and coaches. In his late thirties, as a personal challenge to see what sort of shape he could get back into, he returned to jazz dance classes at the Roland Dupre' dance facility and gave it a go for about a year, until the reality of diminished capacity convinced him to put his dance bag away for good. Also, by then he was working as an actor in all venues of media. Presently, he is semi-retired and lives in the Cahuenga Pass area of the Hollywood Hills.
Tivia:
Does much of his own wrenching on his motorcycles and automobiles.Is a licensed pilot, with Commercial, Instrument, and Multi-engine ratings.Certified Scuba Diver, with a Master Certification.Experienced mountaineer and technical rock climber.Worked as a pageboy at CBS television network in New York City, and was working The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show) when The Beatles made their American TV debut.Is of Irish, Swedish, and Norwegian lineage.Is not the actor born in Kampala, Uganda, who spells the surname differently, is not the author of maritime novels, is not the nutritionist and health coach, and is not the guy who was Lisa Marie Presley's first husband.He and a buddy, who had a pickup truck, once helped Goldie Hawn (when she was still working as a dancer), move into an apartment in the building they were already living in, in Hollywood.Holds dual citizenship in U.S.A. and Ireland. Has both U.S. and Euro passports.U.S. Army veteran.Motorcyclist (Big Twin, Street).Worked as a male model.Graduated from Steinmetz High School in Chicago, class of January, 1958.Earned four athletic letters in high school, for football, track and golf.Attended Wright Jr. College in Chicago for one year, and earned an athletic letter for track.Voted, Best Dressed Boy, and Most Handsome Boy, in high school graduating class.Has designed and built sets for numerous small theater productions.Is a jazz fan.While in the military service, was in a small NATO unit, assigned to the West German Army (the Bundeswehr), was billeted on their base in Landsberg, Germany, and participated in all training exercises with them.Moonlighted for six months as a shirtless cocktail waiter at Chippendales nightclub in L.A.Had a side business for many years, working as a handyman, called, Dandy Dan the Handy Man, 'A guy who's nice to have around the house'.Before he got into modeling and doing parts on TV shows, he worked as a dancer.His grandfather, John Keough, an Irish immigrant, has his name inscribed on the Chicago Police Memorial Wall, for being killed in the line of duty while serving on the Chicago PD.Has three siblings, an older sister, a younger sister, and a younger brother.As a teenager in the 1950s, was more into Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat 'King' Cole, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee and cool jazz, than rock 'n' roll.Has an Associate in Arts degree in Music.Is a history buff, for both modern and ancient.With the exception of an occasional golf match and Olympic competitions, no longer has any interest in watching sports.Attended the same High School in Chicago as Hugh Hefner, and also the "Spilotro brothers", who were characterized in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film, Casino (1995). Also, the school was the subject of the infamous academic scandal that the 2000 TV movie, Cheaters (2000), was based on.Considers Frank Sinatra's album, Only the Lonely, with Nelson Riddle, to be the greatest all-time artistic marriage of vocal styling and interpretation, to composition and arrangement, that has ever been recorded.Favorite classical music composer: 'Frederic Chopin'.Favorite contemporary classic play: Death of a Salesman.Favorite classic films are From Here to Eternity (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), Shane (1953), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Cool Hand Luke (1967).During his first year in California, he suffered a leg injury in a fight scene during a performance of a professional stage production, which disabled him from dancing and he had to drop out. When it healed in a few weeks, he was unable to get another dancing job right away, and he started to go broke. He parked cars for a couple of months at the Hollywood Brown Derby, until he was finally able to get another gig in a show.His hitch in the Army, then moving to Manhattan and living there for three and a half years without his golf clubs (which he left in Chicago), much less being able to afford the funds for green fees if he did have his clubs, broke his addiction to the game of golf, and he has yet to become re-hooked.All through his teen years, caddied at the exclusive, Medina Country Club, outside Chicago, becoming one of its top caddies, and jocking loops for all of the big-shot members.Is a bachelor.Slept on a mattress on the floor of a back bedroom for a year and a half, while he completely remodeled his entire house, inside and out. He did that room last.Has rafted five of the top-rated whitewater river runs in America. Some more than once.Devours all military history.From books, manuals, self teaching and experience, along with natural ability, has acquired journeyman skills in many areas of construction.Was a Nuclear Warhead Technician in the Army, and had a security clearance for access to classified material.Long time member of Theatre West, one of Los Angeles's oldest, on-going theatre companies. Has directed two of its main-stage productions, in addition to serving as one of the moderators for its acting workshop, and also serving two terms on its Board of Directors.American Legion member. |
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Daniel Keough |
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Actor (IMDB) |
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All World |
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5' 11' (1.80 m) |
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Daniel was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago. He began studying voice in his last year of high school, and after graduation, attended Wright Jr. College, majoring in music. During the summer break after his freshman year, he took an ac |
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Does much of his own wrenching on his motorcycles and automobiles.Is a licensed pilot, with Commercial, Instrument, and Multi-engine ratings.Certified Scuba Diver, with a Master Certification.Experienced mountaineer and technical rock climber.Worked as a pageboy at CBS television network in New York City, and was working The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show) when The Beatles made their American TV debut.Is of Irish, Swedish, and Norwegian lineage.Is not the actor born in Kampala, Uganda, who spells the surname differently, is not the author of maritime novels, is not the nutritionist and health coach, and is not the guy who was Lisa Marie Presley's first husband.He and a buddy, who had a pickup truck, once helped Goldie Hawn (when she was still working as a dancer), move into an apartment in the building they were already living in, in Hollywood.Holds dual citizenship in U.S.A. and Ireland. Has both U.S. and Euro passports.U.S. Army veteran.Motorcyclist (Big Twin, Street).Worked as a male model.Graduated from Steinmetz High School in Chicago, class of January, 1958.Earned four athletic letters in high school, for football, track and golf.Attended Wright Jr. College in Chicago for one year, and earned an athletic letter for track.Voted, Best Dressed Boy, and Most Handsome Boy, in high school graduating class.Has designed and built sets for numerous small theater productions.Is a jazz fan.While in the military service, was in a small NATO unit, assigned to the West German Army (the Bundeswehr), was billeted on their base in Landsberg, Germany, and participated in all training exercises with them.Moonlighted for six months as a shirtless cocktail waiter at Chippendales nightclub in L.A.Had a side business for many years, working as a handyman, called, Dandy Dan the Handy Man, 'A guy who's nice to have around the house'.Before he got into modeling and doing parts on TV shows, he worked as a dancer.His grandfather, John Keough, an Irish immigrant, has his name inscribed on the Chicago Police Memorial Wall, for being killed in the line of duty while serving on the Chicago PD.Has three siblings, an older sister, a younger sister, and a younger brother.As a teenager in the 1950s, was more into Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat 'King' Cole, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee and cool jazz, than rock 'n' roll.Has an Associate in Arts degree in Music.Is a history buff, for both modern and ancient.With the exception of an occasional golf match and Olympic competitions, no longer has any interest in watching sports.Attended the same High School in Chicago as Hugh Hefner, and also the "Spilotro brothers", who were characterized in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film, Casino (1995). Also, the school was the subject of the infamous academic scandal that the 2000 TV movie, Cheaters (2000), was based on.Considers Frank Sinatra's album, Only the Lonely, with Nelson Riddle, to be the greatest all-time artistic marriage of vocal styling and interpretation, to composition and arrangement, that has ever been recorded.Favorite classical music composer: 'Frederic Chopin'.Favorite contemporary classic play: Death of a Salesman.Favorite classic films are From Here to Eternity (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), Shane (1953), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Cool Hand Luke (1967).During his first year in California, he suffered a leg injury in a fight scene during a performance of a professional stage production, which disabled him from dancing and he had to drop out. When it healed in a few weeks, he was unable to get another dancing job right away, and he started to go broke. He parked cars for a couple of months at the Hollywood Brown Derby, until he was finally able to get another gig in a show.His hitch in the Army, then moving to Manhattan and living there for three and a half years without his golf clubs (which he left in Chicago), much less being able to afford the funds for green fees if he did have his clubs, broke his addiction to the game of golf, and he has yet to become re-hooked.All through his teen years, caddied at the exclusive, Medina Country Club, outside Chicago, becoming one of its top caddies, and jocking loops for all of the big-shot members.Is a bachelor.Slept on a mattress on the floor of a back bedroom for a year and a half, while he completely remodeled his entire house, inside and out. He did that room last.Has rafted five of the top-rated whitewater river runs in America. Some more than once.Devours all military history.From books, manuals, self teaching and experience, along with natural ability, has acquired journeyman skills in many areas of construction.Was a Nuclear Warhead Technician in the Army, and had a security clearance for access to classified material.Long time member of Theatre West, one of Los Angeles's oldest, on-going theatre companies. Has directed two of its main-stage productions, in addition to serving as one of the moderators for its acting workshop, and also serving two terms on its Board of Directors.American Legion member. |
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Actor |
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Has appeared as an on-camera principle in over two hundred television commercials, as well as numerous industrial films.
Is an accomplished singer in both jazz and legit styles, and in addition to dancing, has performed in over twenty Musical Comedy Thea |
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