Charles Keating, an actor known onstage for Shakespearean roles and on television for playing a villain on the NBC soap opera “Another World,” died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 72.
The cause was lung cancer, his son Sean said.
Mr. Keating performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years and appeared on Broadway in “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” and “The House of Atreus,” both of which opened in 1968.
He was nominated for a Tony Award for his work alongside Alec Baldwin in a 1986 revival of the Joe Orton farce “Loot.”
Reviewing his performance in a Cleveland Play House production of “Macbeth” in 1977, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times, “His is a bluff Macbeth, more a man of action than a man of conscience, but as his pride and confidence crumbled, when Macbeth was at bay, his tigerish fury proved most impressive.”…….
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