William Keene (1915-1992) was a character actor and voice actor who was heard in four Clark Gist animated Sesame Street segments.
Keene was a New York City radio actor, heard in the forties and fifties on The Columbia Workshop, Big Story, Counterspy, The Mysterious Traveler, X-Minus One, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Chase. He spent a stint as talking fish Red Lantern on the children's series Land of the Lost (a role also played by Art Carney) and recurred on Doctor Six-Gun as the bartender O'Shea.
Keene shifted into TV in the mid fifties, appearing on Captain Video, Ethel and Albert, and assorted soap operas. Moving to Hollywood, he became a familiar face (often as doctors or bankers) on Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Get Smart, The Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Lassie, and Perry Mason (twice as a judge). He played Mayberry minister Reverend Tucker on six episodes each of The Andy Griffith Show and its spinoff Mayberry RFD. He lent his voice to Ralph Bakshi's X-rated animated feature Heavy Traffic.
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