Teri Keane obit

Radio and Television Star Teri Keane Has Died

She was not on the list.

She was an American actress known for her work in the era of old-time radio. She was reported to have "appeared in more than 100 dramatic roles in radio and television." For a twelve-year period, from Oct 1963 to April 4, 1975, she played Martha Spears Marceau, the wife of police chief Bill Marceau on the CBS-TV daytime drama The Edge of Night.

Keane was born in Manhattan. Her father was a newspaperman, at one time an editor of The New York Globe, and her mother was "the leading coloratura" at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, who later became a professor of music at Wittenberg College. She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.

Keane's acting career began when she was 9 years old. "By the time I was 19," she told a reporter for a story in the November 1954 issue of TV-Radio Mirror, "I had played dramatic roles in five Broadway shows and was already a radio veteran.

Keane's roles on radio programs included those shown in the table below among others.

 

Program            Role

Big Sister            Hope Melton Evans

Life Can Be Beautiful            Chichi

Marriage for Two     Vikki[

Mystery Without Murder            Secretary  

Road of Life            Jocelyn Brent

The Romance of Helen Trent            Carol Bancroft

The Second Mrs. Burton            Terry Burton

Keane was also a member of the casts of Mr. Mercury, Just Plain Bill , and Somerset Maugham Theater. In the 1970s, she was heard on CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Keane's Broadway credits include Hairpin Harmony, The Vagabond King, Swing Your Lady, and What a Life.

 

Actress

Sometime in August (1999)

Sometime in August

7.7

Older Marcia

1999

 

Vic Noto in Loving (1983)

Loving

7.0

TV Series

Rose Donovan

1983–1991

13 episodes

 

Guiding Light (1952)

Guiding Light

6.5

TV Series

Lainie Bauer

1988

3 episodes

 

Kate Mulgrew, Bernard Barrow, Helen Gallagher, Malcolm Groome, and Michael Hawkins in Ryan's Hope (1975)

Ryan's Hope

7.2

TV Series

Norma Greenberg

1985

8 episodes

 

Tales from the Darkside (1983)

Tales from the Darkside

7.4

TV Series

Esther

1985

1 episode

 

Tribute (1980)

Tribute

6.2

Evelyn

1980

 

ABC Afterschool Specials (1972)

ABC Afterschool Specials

7.1

TV Series

Ginger Peters

1979

1 episode

 

Boardwalk (1979)

Boardwalk

6.1

Betty Rosen

1979

 

Kristen Alderson, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Erika Slezak, Trevor St. John, and John-Paul Lavoisier in One Life to Live (1968)

One Life to Live

6.9

TV Series

Naomi Vernon

1976–1977

52 episodes

 

Sharon Gabet and Larkin Malloy in The Edge of Night (1956)

The Edge of Night

7.8

TV Series

Martha Marceau

1964–1974

56 episodes

 

Susan Lucci, Debbi Morgan, Rebecca Budig, Cameron Mathison, and Darnell Williams in All My Children (1970)

All My Children

6.8

TV Series

Rose Cudahy (1979)

1970–2011

 

Kraft Theatre (1947)

The United States Steel Hour

8.0

TV Series

Secretary

1962

1 episode

 

Augusta Dabney and William Prince in Young Dr. Malone (1958)

Young Dr. Malone

8.7

TV Series

Marge Wagner (1963)

1958–1963

 

Kitty Foyle (1958)

Kitty Foyle

7.2

TV Series

Role Unknown

1958

 

As the World Turns (1956)

As the World Turns

6.2

TV Series

Meg Blaine (1961-1964)

1956–2010

 

The Road of Life

6.6

TV Series

Role Unknown

1954

 

The Inner Flame (1954)

The Inner Flame

7.0

TV Series

Role Unknown

1954–1955

 

Jane Krakowski, Matthew Ashford, Domini Blythe, Colleen Dion, Terri Eoff, David Forsyth, Lee Godart, Louan Gideon, Marcia McCabe, Jeffrey Meek, Jacqueline Schultz, and Mary Stuart in Search for Tomorrow (1951)

Search for Tomorrow

7.1

TV Series

Joanne Gardner Barron Tate Vincente Tourneur (1956) (temporary replacement during Ms. Stuart's maternity leave)