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Father of Peter Kellaway, pioneer in the clinical use of the electroencephalogram (EEG) test to evaluate patients with possible neurological difficulties. When Jack Ruby stood trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Kellaway testified about the results of Ruby's EEG tests.

Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Sanctuary of Remembrance.

The second South African-born actor to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor, for The Luck of the Irish (1948), but lost to Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). The first was Basil Rathbone for Romeo and Juliet (1936) who lost to another Walter - Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936).

After he turned down the role of Santa Clause in the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947), his cousin Edmund Gwenn was offered and accepted the part, winning an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Supporting Role.