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Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. He created and played the title role in the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984, the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.
Jun 23, 2024 · Bob Keeshan, American television producer and entertainer who was best known for his role as Captain Kangaroo on the children’s program of the same name (1955–84). The walrus-mustached Captain brought education disguised as entertainment and endeared himself to generations of young viewers.
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Oct 4, 2019 · We look back at the remarkable career of Bob Keeshan, known to children of all ages as Captain Kangaroo, on the occasion of his death on Jan. 23, 2004. Check...
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In 1989 he published "Growing Up Happy" and then in October of 1996 he published "Good Morning Captain: 50 Wonderful Years with Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo". Keeshan is also the author of the "Itty Bitty Kitty" children's book series. Widowed in the 1990s, he died in Vermont in 2004.
- June 27, 1927
- January 23, 2004
Jan 23, 2004 · Bob Keeshan, who delighted millions of children and their parents for three decades as television's gentle, patient Captain Kangaroo and before that as the original...
Jan 24, 2004 · Bob Keeshan, who delighted millions of children and their parents for three decades as television's gentle, patient Captain Kangaroo and before that as the original...
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Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.
