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Charles Keating is a British actor of stage, screen, and television, and narrator of audiobooks.
Of Irish Catholic extraction, Keating was born on 22 October 1941 in London, England, the son of Charles James Keating and Margaret Shevlin. He appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon before turning to television, winning the role of Rex Mottram in ITV's celebrated adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
Among other soap roles, he is best known for his role as reformed villain Carl Hutchins on the American soap opera Another World from 1983 to 1985, and again from 1991 to 1998 with a final appearance in 1999. After the show's demise, he returned to stage acting and to Shakespeare, most notably in a two-person show with Another World actress Victoria Wyndham. In between stints on Another World. he played the evil psychiatrist Dr. Damon Lazarre on All My Children and the equally nefarious Niles Mason on As the World Turns who schemed with his son to steal Lucinda Walsh's fortune.
He had also had a role as a professor at a Caribbean medical school which catered to Americans in the short-lived ABC sitcom, Going to Extremes, as well as a guest role on Sex and the City, in which he played an artist obsessed with painting "cunts". In 2005, he had a supporting role in the movie Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, starring Rob Schneider.
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