Tall, cheerful, outdoorsy leading man of Hollywood B movies who started in show business as an infant accompanying his vaudevillian parents , a crime thriller set in Rome which he also co-scripted under the pseudonym Jonathan Rix. At the end of the decade, Dennis starred in his own short-lived television sitcom about a widowed Los Angeles syndicated columnist. After that, he guested in just a few more TV episodes before his untimely death from lung cancer in August 1968.
Changed his stagename to Dennis OKeefe from Bud Flanagan in 1937.
Father of director/producer James OKeefe.
Was an extra in over 200 films.
Son of Edward Flanagan.
