Keith Aldrich(1929-1993)
- Actor
On January 1, 2000 a Public Radio Show, THIS AMERICAN LIFE, carried a
memoir by a daughter of Keith Aldrich, describing his life and how he
periodically would leave his family behind to start a new life, usually
with a new wife and starting a new family, and the effect that he had
on the children of these families as he changed and moved on. He was
physically abusive to some of them. It described him as a Hollywood bit
player who had appeared in BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI and who could've had a
good studio contract but his ears stuck out and he refused to plastic
surgery to change them. Other changes were his being a book editor, a
would-be hippie, a community-theatre actor, a religious fundementalist,
and a producer of phonograph albums where he would do the voice of the
comic book character Batman. He died around 1994.
