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Keith Prentice (February 21, 1940 – September 27, 1992) was a Dayton, Ohio-born American TV, film and stage actor, whose most famous roles include the part of Larry in both the original stage and film versions of The Boys in the Band, and Morgan Collins on Dark Shadows, the latter of which he played in the 1841 parallel time storyline during the final months that Dark Shadows was on the air in 1971. Until just several years ago, his picture was displayed on the Tasters Choice coffee label.

Prentice studied in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His stage musical credits include Sail Away, The Sound of Music, Paint Your Wagon, and The King and I. In 1968, he appeared off-Broadway in the non-musical The Boys in the Band, a once controversial play featuring gay characters at a dramatic birthday party - the Summer before the Stonewall gay civil rights riots. After completing the movie version of The Boys in the Band in 1970, he joined the cast of Dark Shadows.

Prentice, who was gay, was a friend and frequent house guest of Louis Edmonds and his lover Bryce.^[1]

In 1982, he co-founded Kettering Theatre Under The Stars, and directed summer shows there through the year of his death. He died of cancer on September 27, 1992 in Kettering, Ohio.^[2] His cancer was not AIDS-related.^[1]

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External links

• Keith Prentice at the Internet Movie Database
• Keith Prentice at the Internet Broadway Database
• Keith Prentice at TV.com
• Keith Prentice at Find a Grave