American actor and singer (1919–2004)

Claude says:Harold Clifford Keel was a bass-baritone who anchored MGM musicals in the 1950s before spending a decade as an oil baron on Dallas. Born in Illinois, raised in California after his coal miner father died, he worked as a long-haul trucker before a landlady overheard him singing and nudged him toward lessons. You caught a couple plays of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in February — specifically "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide" and "Sobbin' Women" — but it hasn't stuck around.