Keith Aldrich

On January 1, 2000 a Public Radio Show, THIS AMERICAN LIFE, carried a memoir by a daughter of Keith Aldrich, describing his life and how he periodically would leave his family behind to start a new life, usually with a new wife and starting a new family, and the effect that he had on the children of these families as he changed and moved on. He was physically abusive to some of them. It described him as a Hollywood bit player who had appeared in BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI and who could've had a good studio contract but his ears stuck out and he refused to plastic surgery to change them. Other changes were his being a book editor, a would-be hippie, a community-theatre actor, a religious fundementalist, and a producer of phonograph albums where he would do the voice of the comic book character Batman. He died around 1994.