[1] Keating found steady work with the Cleveland Play House repertory company and was on tour when he met his future wife, actress Mary Chobody.
The two were married in 1964 while Keating was serving in the United States Army and directing plays for its entertainment division at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
He also played Charles in the satirical miniseries Fresno in 1986, which parodied the prime-time soaps of the day such as Dynasty and Dallas.
[8] Broadway roles include Loot by Joe Orton (1986), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play,[citation needed] The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1968) and The House of Atreus (1968), which comprised three classics: Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides.
In 2007, he played the role of Clement O'Donnell in the Guthrie Theater production of Brian Friel's The Home Place.