{{short description|American actor (born 1966)}} {{Infobox person | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|6|10|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Pompton Plains, New Jersey, U.S. | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1976–present | spouse = Kathy McKeon | children = 1 }}

'''Doug McKeon''' (born June 10, 1966) is an American actor who first attracted attention as a child actor.

== Early life and career == McKeon was born on June 10, 1966, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey,<ref>{{cite web |title=McKeon, Doug 1966- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mckeon-douglas-jude-1966 |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=Cengage |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref> and raised in Oakland, New Jersey, where he attended Indian Hills High School.<ref>{{cite news |last=Klein |first=Alvin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/20/nyregion/silver-screen-is-gold-for-bergen-youth.html |title=Silver Screen is Gold for Bergen Youth |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204031720/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/20/nyregion/silver-screen-is-gold-for-bergen-youth.html |archive-date=2017-02-04 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 20, 1981 |access-date= October 19, 2016 |quote=Oakland... The young actor, who lives in this Bergen County community, considers himself, at 15, a 'veteran of show business'... Having finished three more films since ''On Golden Pond,'' Doug is in what he calls a 'hiatus,' which means that he's back in Indian Hills High School as a sophomore and taking exams, instead of traveling around with a tutor.}}</ref>

McKeon performed in the television series ''The Edge of Night''. He acted in the films ''Uncle Joe Shannon'' (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award), ''On Golden Pond'', ''Night Crossing'' and ''Mischief''.<ref>{{cite web |title= Doug McKeon - Biography |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/47729/Doug-McKeon/biography/ |access-date= September 15, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150101100800/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/47729/Doug-McKeon/biography |archive-date=January 1, 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Hal |last=Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=January 1, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==

{| class="wikitable" |+Film and television |- ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- | rowspan=2| 1978 || ''Daddy, I Don’t Like It Like This'' || Peter || TV film |- | ''Uncle Joe Shannon'' || Robbie || |- | rowspan=2| 1979 || ''Big Shamus, Little Shamus'' || Max Sutter || 9 episodes |- | ''Centennial'' || Philip Wendell || TV miniseries |- | 1980 || ''The Comeback Kid'' || Michael || TV film |- | 1981 || ''On Golden Pond'' || Billy Ray Jr. || |- | rowspan=3| 1982 || ''Night Crossing'' || Frank Strelzyk || |- | ''An Innocent Love'' || Harry Woodward || TV film |- | ''Desperate Lives'' || Scott Cameron || TV film |- | rowspan=2| 1985 || ''Mischief'' || Jonathan Bellah || |- | ''Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story'' || Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini || TV film |- | 1987 || ''At Mother's Request'' || Marc Schreuder || TV miniseries |- | 1992 || ''Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two'' || Billy Coleman || Direct-to-video film |- | rowspan=2| 1996 || ''The Empty Mirror'' || The Typist || |- | ''Kounterfeit'' || Patron || |- | 1998 || ''From the Earth to the Moon'' || Joe Allen|| TV miniseries |- | 2000 || ''Rocket's Red Glare'' || Flight Surgeon #2 || TV film |- | rowspan=2| 2001 || ''Critical Mass'' || Breem || Direct-to-video film |- | ''The Boys of Sunset Ridge'' || || Director and writer |- | 2005 || ''Come Away Home'' || Woodsy Warner || Also director |- | 2015 || ''I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine'' || Oscar "Koza" Kosca || |- | 2016 || ''LBJ'' || Hubert Humphrey || |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p.&nbsp;360.

==External links== *[http://www.dougmckeon.com Doug McKeon's official website] *{{IMDb name|0571630|Doug McKeon}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160329214836/http://www.fandango.com/dougmckeon/biography/p47729 Doug McKeon] at Fandango *[http://www.filmreference.com/film/8/Doug-McKeon.html Doug McKeon] at filmreference.com

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