Alan Keith - Family

Family

Keith married Pearl Rebuck in 1941 and their son Sir Brian Keith (born 14 April 1944) has been a High Court judge since 2001. He was the elder brother of fellow actor David Kossoff, whose son Paul Kossoff was guitarist with the rock band Free.

In the mid-1960s Keith's "wild" and beautiful teenaged daughter, Linda, became well connected culturally in the early days of "Swinging London". She was photographed by David Bailey and, together with Shiela Klein, partner of the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Oldham, was at the heart of a bohemian community in London's West Hampstead. She formed relationships with Keith Richards of the Stones and, later in New York, Jimi Hendrix, but drifted into drug dependency. Richards appears to have been instrumental in Alan Keith's going out to America to find his daughter. On their return she was made a ward of court. She later brought up her own family and, in 2010, was living in New Orleans. According to Richards, Linda Keith was the subject of the song, "Ruby Tuesday" ("When you change with every new day/Still I'm gonna miss you").