Michael O'Keefe (born April 24, 1955) is an American film and television actor. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (115th in leap years). ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

O'Keefe was born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in a devoutly Roman Catholic Irish American family. Motto: The city of homes Coordinates: Counties Westchester County Government  - Mayor Ernest D. Davis (Dem) Area  - City 11. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ...

His father was a law professor at Fordham University, as well as also teaching at St. Thomas of Villanova College. O'Keefe attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and New York University, and made his acting debut in a 1970 Colgate television commercial. Fordham University is a private, coeducational research university[2] in the United States, with three residential campuses located in and around New York City. ... St. ... The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) is a fully accredited two-year conservatory with campuses located at 120 Madison Avenue in New York City (in a landmark building designed by famed architect Stanford White as the original Colony Club) and 1336 North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood (in a... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... Colgate redirects here. ...

O'Keefe's best known film role is Danny Noonan in the comedy film Caddyshack. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as the oldest son of a Marine aviator in The Great Santini, starring Robert Duvall, also nominated for an Academy Award for the film. He played a Marine himelf in 1980 in the miniseries A Rumor of War as the friend of Brad Davis' character, Philip Caputo. He has also appeared in the independent film The Glass House, as well as starring alsongside Tommy Lee Jones in the 1983 pirate adventure Nate and Hayes (also known as Savage Islands). Caddyshack is a 1980 U.S. comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... WHO KNOWS. ... Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director. ... A Rumor of War is a 1980 television miniseries, based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War. ... Brad Davis can refer to: Brad Davis, the actor, who died of AIDS in 1991. ... Philip Caputo (born (1941 June 10) is an American author and journalist. ... The Glass House is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Sackheim. ... For the musician, see Tommy Lee. ... // February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Lets Spend the Night Together opens in New York North Americas Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Tootsie Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy Superman III Flashdance Staying Alive Octopussy Mr. ... Region 1 DVD cover for Nate and Hayes. ...

O'Keefe's Broadway theatre credits include Side Man, Mass Appeal, Fifth of July, and Luv. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Side Man is a play by Warren Leight. ... Mass Appeal is a bi-monthly urban lifestyle magazine based in Brooklyn, New York. ... Fifth of July is a 1979 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson. ... Luv is a play by Murray Schisgal. ...

O'Keefe's highest profile role to date has been his portrayal of Fred, the husband of Roseanne's sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) on the ABC series Roseanne. O'Keefe appeared on the show from 1993 to 1996. After leaving the series, O'Keefe played the husband in the series Life's Work, which aired after Roseanne in its final season. Additional television credits include the lead role of Simon MacHeath in the short lived Boston-based series Against the Law, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and M*A*S*H. Lauren Laurie Ophelia Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. ... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Roseanne is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Lifes Work was a sitcom that lasted from 1996 to 1997 on the American Broadcasting Company channel that starred Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, the assistant district attorney who had a husband named Kevin Hunter (played by Michael OKeefe), who was a basketball coach, and... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Against the Law was a short-lived American one hour television show which played on the Fox network. ... Law & Order is a long-running American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC... Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a United States crime drama television series that began in 2001. ... M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film MASH, and influenced by the 1961...

O'Keefe was married to noted rock/blues singer Bonnie Raitt from April 27, 1991 to November 9, 1999. It has been widely reported on sources such as IMDb that he has two children by another previous marriage, to Alma O'Keefe; however, this marriage never occurred and the children in question never existed^{[citation needed]}. However, O'Keefe once replaced Richard Thomas in Lanford Wilson's The Fifth of July at the New Apollo Theater for four weeks. During this time, Richard Thomas' wife Alma was expecting twins.^[1] Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American Blues-R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...

O'Keefe is now a practicing Zen Buddhist and became a Zen priest in 1996. A woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, (Japan, 1887) depicting Bodhidharma the founder of Chinese Zen. ...

References

1. ^ The New York Times: August 25, 1981

External links

• Official website
• Michael O'Keefe at the Internet Movie Database