Warren Keith
Warren Keith is an American character actor who has been featured in many contemporary films and has an active career on stage in San Francisco in the late 1990s and since 2000. He is also a director. Among other films, Keith has acted in four films by the Coen brothers; he played an FBI Agent in Raising Arizona and the fastidious funeral director in The Big Lebowski. In Fargo and A Serious Man he does not appear on screen but is heard several times in telephone conversation with the respective lead characters. He had a starring role in the film Haiku Tunnel. He also has appeared in television shows such as Nash Bridges, The Enforcer, and Trauma. He is married to Melissa Smith and resides in San Francisco. Keith is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Yale School of Drama.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Actor
- 10 on MovieCove · 11 credits in all
Known for
What are Warren Keith's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 2
Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 2
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 1
Casual 2 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Shadowas Bob 'Bob' Shelby in Haiku Tunnel (2001)
- Mentoras Bob Shelby in Love & Taxes (2015)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Warren Keith's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Warren Keith's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
11 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Nomadland(2020)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Love & Taxes(2015)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
A Serious Man(2009)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Haiku Tunnel(2001)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
The Big Lebowski(1998)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Fargo(1996)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Hiding Out(1987)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Raising Arizona(1987)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Manhattan Project(1986)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
The Equalizer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Career shape
Star power in the 78th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 10 titles from 1985 to 2021; peak year 1987.
Film career
Peak 1987 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1987Screen debut· Raising Arizona
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Warren Keith's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 86th percentile, the median of all 10; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 47th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 10 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the acting 67/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 33. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Warren Keith work with?
People who share at least 2 of Warren Keith's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jacob Kornbluth shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Jacob KornbluthShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Jacob Kornbluth
Writers
- Josh KornbluthShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Josh Kornbluth
Actors
- Helen ShumakerShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Helen Shumaker
- Sarah OvermanShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Sarah Overman
Composers
- Marco D'AmbrosioShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Marco D'Ambrosio
Producers
- David R. FuchsShared titles: Love & Taxes (2015), Haiku Tunnel (2001)See all 2 shared titles with David R. Fuchs