Brian Keith, the burly actor best known as Uncle Bill on the TV sitcom "Family Affair," did not want to wait in a hospital for cancer to take his life.
Instead, Keith, 75, went home and apparently killed himself."Knowing Brian, who has been so independent all his life and always wanted to do things the way he wanted to do . . . that could've meant beating the grim reaper before the reaper got him," said Kathy Garver, who played Cissy on the popular CBS-TV series, which ran from 1966 to 1971.
Family members found Keith at his Malibu home Tuesday with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's deputies said. Keith had lung cancer and emphysema.