Thomas Arthur Keating Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Thomas Patrick Keating (March 1, 1917 – February 12, 1984) was an art restorer and famous art forger who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by over 100 different artists.Keating was born in Lewisham, London, into a poor family. After World War II, he began to restore paintings for a living, although he also worked as a house-painter to make ends meet. He exhibited his own paintings, but failed to break into the art market. He had a wife, Hellen, from whom he separated in his later years. They had a son named Douglas.
[on his voracious appetite for film] I like the old B movies, westerns, detectives, John Wayne, Woody Allen... I'm of the persuasion that I'll watch anything once. As bad as a movie is, there's always something good in it. And the movies that have a lot of good things, they're the successful ones... How about Wayne as Rooster shooting those rats in True Grit (1969)? How about Bogey's stomach grumbling as Charley Allnut in The African Queen (1951)? How about 'Busby Berkeley' musicals and Singin' in the Rain (1952)? How about Red River (1948) and Stagecoach (1939) and Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972)? I don't know if we'll ever see one like 'Tango' again.
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[on his favorite film] Everybody hated Citizen Kane (1941) at first. Nobody showed up to see it and they pulled it out of distribution for five years. It had such a different style: that telescoping of time, for instance, when Orson Welles read the newspaper at breakfast with his wife, Ruth Warrick.
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[on sports movies] They run the same things over and they should have more fades and zooms, catch little vignettes on the bench, paste together a couple of fight scenes. These are the only movies I can fall asleep at.