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Michael O'Keefe is a Actor American born on 24 april 1955 at Mount Vernon (USA)

Michael O'Keefe

Michael O'Keefe
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Birth name Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 24 april 1955 (68 years) at Mount Vernon (USA)

Michael O'Keefe (born April 24, 1955) is an American film and television actor best known as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack. O'Keefe received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for his performance in The Great Santini.

Biography

O'Keefe was married to rock/blues singer Bonnie Raitt from April 27, 1991 to November 9, 1999 when they were divorced. He has been a practicing Zen Buddhist since 1981. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. He married actress Emily Donahoe in 2011.

Best films

Michael Clayton (2007)
(Actor)
Caddyshack (1980)
(Actor)
Ironweed (1987)
(Actor)
Frozen River (2008)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Michael O'Keefe (41 films)

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Actor

Instant Family, 1h58
Directed by Sean Anders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Tig Notaro, Isabelle Moner, Margo Martindale
Roles Jerry
Rating73% 3.652523.652523.652523.652523.65252
Pete et Ellie veulent devenir une famille. En adoptant trois frères et sœurs, dont une adolescente rebelle de 15 ans, Pete et Ellie réalisent très vite qu’ils n’étaient pas préparés à devenir parents du jour au lendemain ! Leur parentalité « instantanée » va les placer dans des situations inattendues, émouvantes et souvent hilarantes.
Eye in the Sky, 1h42
Directed by Gavin Hood
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Robot films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen
Roles Ken Stanitzke
Rating72% 3.6474653.6474653.6474653.6474653.647465
Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) leads a secret drone mission to capture a terrorist group living in a safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. When Powell learns that the group plans to carry out a suicide attack, her objective is changed to kill the terrorists. Drone pilot Steve Watts (Paul) targets the safehouse for destruction but reports a nine-year-old girl entering the kill zone. Powell contacts politicians and lawyers to determine whether or not to take action.
The Wait
The Wait (2013)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes, Devon Gearhart, Michael O'Keefe, Josh Hamilton
Roles Ben's Dad
Rating45% 2.2673652.2673652.2673652.2673652.267365
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love, giving her hope that anything, even resurrection, is possible. A discordant struggle between sisters plays out in a world where the virtual and real often converge.
Junction
Junction (2012)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors David Zayas, Michael O'Keefe, Anthony Rapp, Anthony Ruivivar, Neal Bledsoe, Summer Crockett Moore
Roles Walters
Rating55% 2.7581852.7581852.7581852.7581852.758185
Four strung out meth-addicts - Donald (Bledsoe), Kari (Moore), David (Pelphrey) and Spot (Doran) – are desperately craving for their next fix of meth. Short on cash, the group discusses a variety of options including sending Kari to exploit their dealer’s fondness for her. After some debate, the group decides to sends David, their leader and designated driver, to meet with their longtime dealer Tai (Ruivivar). Fortunately, Tai needs a television as a birthday gift for his mother. Desperate, David agrees to take up Tai on his offer of drugs in exchange for a new flat screen television for his mom.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I, 1h37
Directed by Paul Johansson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Graham Beckel, Edi Gathegi, Jsu Garcia
Roles Hugh Akston
Rating55% 2.799292.799292.799292.799292.79929
It is 2016 and the United States is in a sustained economic depression. Industrial disasters, resource shortages, and gasoline at $37/gallon have made railroads the primary mode of transportation, but even they are in disrepair. After a major accident on the Rio Norte line of the Taggart Transcontinental railroad, CEO James Taggart shirks responsibility. His sister Dagny Taggart, Vice-President in Charge of Operation, defies him by replacing the aging track with new rails made of Rearden Metal, which is claimed to be lighter yet stronger than steel. Dagny meets with its inventor, Hank Rearden, and they negotiate a deal they both admit serves their respective self-interests.
Apartment 143, 1h20
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Gia Mantegna, Michael O'Keefe, Rick Gonzalez, Fiona Glascott
Roles Dr. Helzer
Rating50% 2.5027452.5027452.5027452.5027452.502745
A parapsychology team is asked to investigate the White family in Apartment 143. Alan White (Kai Lennox) has lost his wife initially explained as being to an unspecified illness, but later clarified as an automobile accident during a psychotic episode. The family started to experience strange events shortly after the death, and relocated from their prior home to the apartment to escape them. The move was initially successful, but after about a week strange incidents resumed in the new location.
Too Big to Fail, 1h38
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors William Hurt, Edward Asnere, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Topher Grace, Matthew Modine
Roles Chris Flowers
Rating72% 3.6478353.6478353.6478353.6478353.647835
Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown, focusing on the actions of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (William Hurt) to contain the problems during the period of August 2008 to October 13, 2008. Dick Fuld (James Woods), CEO of Lehman Brothers, is seeking external investment, but investors are wary as Lehman is seriously exposed to toxic housing assets and the Treasury is ideologically opposed to offering any sort of bailout as it did for Bear Stearns.
American Violet, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Michael O'Keefe, Tim Blake Nelson, Xzibit, Charles Dutton
Roles Calvin Beckett
Rating68% 3.446453.446453.446453.446453.44645
Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, American Violet tells the story of a young mother named Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24-year-old African-American single mother of four living in the town of Melody (based on Hearne, Texas, where the real incident took place). One day, while Dee is working a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Michael O'Keefe) leads a group into the restaurant, sweeping Dee’s housing project. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs and dump her in the women’s county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer.
Frozen River, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior
Roles Trooper Finnerty
Rating70% 3.5472953.5472953.5472953.5472953.547295
The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a discount store clerk struggling to raise two sons with her husband, a compulsive gambler who has disappeared with the funds she had earmarked to finance the purchase of a double-wide mobile home. While searching for him, she encounters Lila Littlewolf (Misty Upham), a Mohawk bingo-parlor employee who is driving his car, which she claims she found abandoned with the keys in the ignition at the local bus station. The two women, who have both fallen on hard economic times, form a desperate and uneasy alliance and begin trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States across the frozen St. Lawrence River for $1,200 each.
Keith
Keith (2008)
, 1h33
Directed by Todd Kessler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jesse McCartney, Elisabeth Harnois, Margo Harshman, Ignacio Serricchio, Jessy Schram, Michael O'Keefe
Roles Alan Ascher
Rating73% 3.6979853.6979853.6979853.6979853.697985
Natalie is an academically-focused student, with the intent of going to Duke University on a tennis scholarship. Natalie, with several other of her classmates, frequents an outdoors party place called The Brick. There, she bonds with Rafael, a new transfer student. Meanwhile, in chemistry, Natalie is paired with Keith, a carefree boy with a rebellious view of life. When Natalie asks Keith to help her with a lab report, he drives her out of school to trespass into an office building, bringing her into his easygoing lifestyle. Even though Rafael becomes Natalie's boyfriend, Keith persistently asks Natalie to go out with him, though insisting as friends and calling his offers "non-dates".
Michael Clayton, 1h59
Directed by Tony Gilroy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Tom McCarthy
Roles Barry Grissom
Rating71% 3.5983.5983.5983.5983.598
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a "fixer" in a prestigious New York City law firm, using his connections and his knowledge of legal loopholes for his clients' benefit. After leaving an underground poker game and dealing with a wealthy client's (Denis O'Hare) hit and run, Michael drives despondently and stops at a remote field, where some horses are standing on a hill. When he leaves his car to climb up the hill to admire the horses, the car explodes behind him.
An American Crime, 1h38
Directed by Tommy O'Haver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton, James Franco
Roles Reverend Bill Collier
Rating72% 3.600553.600553.600553.600553.60055
An American Crime alternates between the 1966 trial of Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener), and lengthy flashbacks to the events of the previous year described by the witnesses.
Cherry Crush, 1h29
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Nikki Reed, Jonathan Tucker, Julie Gonzalo, Michael O'Keefe, Haviland Morris, Dennis Boutsikaris
Roles Detective Griffin
Rating54% 2.7000352.7000352.7000352.7000352.700035
Photographer Jordan Wells (Jonathan Tucker) is the son of a very wealthy family which have high expectations for him to take over his father's company. Instead, he has an infatuation with the natural beauty of a woman's naked body and engages in it by taking photos of nude models but excluding their faces for the sake of privacy, with their names known as the name of their favorite shade of lipstick.