Blanche Yurka
Who was the spouse of Ian Keith before Dec 1924?
Ian Keith Ian Keith ( born Keith Ross ; February 27 , 1899 – March 26 , 1960 ) was an American actor . Early years . Born in Boston , Massachusetts , Keith grew up in Chicago . He was educated at the Francis Parker School there and played Hamlet in a school production at age 16 . Career . Keith was a veteran character actor of the legitimate theater , and appeared in a variety of colorful roles in silent features of the 1920s . In 1919 , as Keith Ross , he acted with the Copley Repertory Theatre in Boston . On Broadway , as Ian Keith , he performed in The Andersonville Trial ( 1959 ) , Edwin Booth ( 1958 ) , Saint Joan ( 1956 ) , Touchstone ( 1953 ) , The Leading Lady ( 1948 ) , A Womans a Fool - to Be Clever ( 1938 ) , Robin Landing ( 1937 ) , King Richard II ( 1937 ) , Best Sellers ( 1933 ) , Hangmans Whip ( 1933 ) , Firebird ( 1932 ) , Queen Bee ( 1929 ) , The Command Performance ( 1928 ) , The Master of the Inn ( 1925 ) , Laugh , Clown , Laugh ! ( 1923 ) , As You Like It ( 1923 ) , The Czarina ( 1922 ) , and The Silver Fox ( 1921 ) . He played John Wilkes Booth in D . W . Griffiths first sound film , Abraham Lincoln . Keith had a major role as a gambler in director Raoul Walshs 1930 widescreen western The Big Trail starring John Wayne . In 1932 , Cecil B . DeMille cast him in The Sign of the Cross . This established him as a dependable supporting player , and he went on to play dozens of roles—including Octavian ( Augustus ) in Cleopatra—in major and minor screen fare for the next three decades . He became one of DeMilles favorites , appearing in many of the producers epic films . He portrayed Count de Rochefort in both the 1935 version and the 1948 remake of The Three Musketeers . In the 1940s he became even busier , working primarily in B features and westerns and alternating between playing good guys ( a chief of detectives in The Payoff , a friendly hypnotist in Mr . Hex , a blowhard politician in She Gets Her Man ) and bad guys ( a murder suspect in The Chinese Cat , a crooked lawyer in Bowery Champs , a swindler in Singing on the Trail ) . He appeared in a supporting role to Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley ( 1947 ) as a former vaudevillian turned carny who has succumbed to alcoholism . He also had a definite flair for comedy , and his florid portrayal of the comic-strip ham actor Vitamin Flintheart in Dick Tracy vs . Cueball was so amusing that he repeated the role in two more films . He played tough-guy military roles , such as Admiral Burns in Robert Gordons sci-fi epic , It Came From Beneath the Sea ( 1955 ) . He also appeared on many television episodes in the 1950s , including starring in the premiere episode of The Nash Airflyte Theater in 1950 . In 1955 , he was seen on screen in his only Shakespeare role , when he made a cameo appearance as the Ghost opposite Richard Burtons Hamlet in a sequence from the Edwin Booth biopic Prince of Players . Cecil B . DeMille brought him back to the big screen for The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) ; Keith played Ramses I . Keith played Emmett Dayton in the radio soap opera Girl Alone . Keith died in Medical Arts Hospital in New York on March 26 , 1960 , and was cremated in Hartsdale , New York . Marriages . - Blanche Yurka ( 1922 - 1926 ) - Ethel Clayton ( 1928 - 1931 ) - Fern Andra ( m . in 1932 and again in 1934 , when the legality of the first ceremony was questioned ; divorced ; in 1938 Andra married again ) - Hildegarde Pabst ( ? - 1960 ) Partial filmography . - Manhandled ( 1924 ) as Robert Brandt ( film debut ) - Her Love Story ( 1924 ) as Captain Kavor - Christine of the Hungry Heart ( 1924 ) as Ivan Vianney - Loves Wilderness ( 1924 ) as Paul LEstrange - Enticement ( 1925 ) as Richard Valyran - My Son ( 1925 ) as Felipe Vargas - The Talker ( 1925 ) as Ned Hollister - The Tower of Lies ( 1925 ) as Lars - The Greater Glory ( 1926 ) as Pauli Birbach - The Lily ( 1926 ) as George Arnaud - Prince of Tempters ( 1926 ) as Mario Ambrosio , later Baron Humberto Giordano - The Truthful Sex ( 1926 ) as Tom Barnes - The Love of Sunya ( 1927 ) as Louis Anthony - What Every Girl Should Know ( 1927 ) as Arthur Graham - Convoy ( 1927 ) as Smith - Two Arabian Knights ( 1927 ) as Shevket - A Mans Past ( 1927 ) as Dr . Fontaine - The Street of Illusion ( 1928 ) as Edwin Booth Benton - The Lookout Girl ( 1928 ) as Dean Richardson - The Divine Lady ( 1929 ) as Honorable Charles Greville - Prisoners ( 1929 ) as Nicholas Cathy - Light Fingers ( 1929 ) as Light Fingers - The Great Divide ( 1929 ) as Steven Ghent - Prince of Diamonds ( 1930 ) as Rupert Endon - Abraham Lincoln ( 1930 ) as John Wilkes Booth - The Big Trail ( 1930 ) as Bill Thorpe - The Boudoir Diplomat ( 1930 ) as Baron Belmar - A Tailor Made Man ( 1931 ) as Dr . Von Sonntag - The Sin Ship ( 1931 ) as Smiley Marsden - The Phantom of Paris ( 1931 ) as Marquis Du Touchais - Susan Lenox ( 1931 ) as Robert Lane - The Deceiver ( 1931 ) as Reginald Thorpe - The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) as Tigellinus - Queen Christina ( 1933 ) as Magnus - Dangerous Corner ( 1934 ) as Martin Chatfield - Cleopatra ( 1934 ) as Octavian - The Crusades ( 1935 ) as Saladin - Sultan of Islam - The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ) as de Rochefort - Dont Gamble with Love ( 1936 ) as John Crane - The Preview Murder Mystery ( 1936 ) as E . Gordon Smith - Mary of Scotland ( 1936 ) as James Stuart - Earl of Moray - White Legion ( 1936 ) as Dr . Julian Murray - The Buccaneer ( 1938 ) as Senator Crawford - Comet Over Broadway ( 1938 ) as Wilton Banks - The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ) as Peralta - All This , and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) as DeLangle - Remember Pearl Harbor ( 1942 ) as Capt . Hudson - Fall In ( 1942 ) as Army Doctor ( uncredited ) - The Payoff ( 1942 ) as Inspector Thomas - The Sundown Kid ( 1942 ) as J . Richard Spencer - Corregidor ( 1943 ) as Capt . Morris - Wild Horse Stampede ( 1943 ) as Carson - I Escaped from the Gestapo ( 1943 ) as Gerard - Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ) as Capt . St . Bride ( uncredited ) - That Nazty Nuisance ( 1943 ) as Chief Paj Mab - The Man from Thunder River ( 1943 ) as Henry Stevens - Bordertown Gun Fighters ( 1943 ) as Cameo Shelby - Adventures of the Flying Cadets ( 1943 , Serial ) as Col . Lee [ Chs . 9-13 ] - Here Comes Kelly ( 1943 ) as L . Herbert Oakley - Attorney - Casanova in Burlesque ( 1944 ) as J . Boggs-Robinson - Arizona Whirlwind ( 1944 ) as Polini - The Chinese Cat ( 1944 ) as Dr . Paul Recknik - Cowboy from Lonesome River ( 1944 ) as Matt Conway - Bowery Champs ( 1944 ) as Ken Duncan - Under Western Skies ( 1945 ) as Prof . Moffat - Fog Island ( 1945 ) as Dr . Lake - Identity Unknown ( 1945 ) as Major Williams - Phantom of the Plains ( 1945 ) as Talbot Wilberforce Champneys aka Fancy Charlie - Song of Old Wyoming ( 1945 ) as Lee Landow - The Spanish Main ( 1945 ) as Captain Lussan - Northwest Trail ( 1945 ) as Inspector McGrath - Valley of the Zombies ( 1946 ) as Ormand Murks - Singing on the Trail ( 1946 ) as Jerry Easton - The Strange Woman ( 1946 ) as Lincoln Pittridge ( uncredited ) - Mr . Hex ( 1946 ) as Mr . Raymond , the Hypnotist - Dick Tracy vs . Cueball ( 1946 ) as Vitamin Flintheart - Border Feud ( 1947 ) as Doc Peters - Dick Tracys Dilemma ( 1947 ) as Vitamin Flintheart - Nightmare Alley ( 1947 ) as Pete Krumbein - Forever Amber ( 1947 ) as Tybalt ( uncredited ) - The Three Musketeers ( 1948 ) as Rochefort - The Black Shield of Falworth ( 1954 ) as King Henry IV - Prince of Players ( 1955 ) as Ghost of Hamlets Father in Hamlet - New York Confidential ( 1955 ) as Waluska - It Came from Beneath the Sea ( 1955 ) as Adm . Burns - The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin ( 1955 , TV ) as Roland Tarleton - Duel on the Mississippi ( 1955 ) as Jacques Scarlet - The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) as Rameses I ( final film ) External links . - Ian Keith photo gallery at New York City Public Library