Brian Keith (judge) Brian Keith (judge) Sir Brian Keith (born 14 April 1944) is a former British judge of the High Court of England and Wales styled as The Honourable Mr Justice Keith. He was previously a judge of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong. Keith is the son of Alan Keith, the broadcaster best known for devising and presenting the long-running programme "Your Hundred Best Tunes" on BBC's Radio 2. He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and read law at Lincoln College, Oxford. From 1966 to 1967 he was a J.F.Kennedy fellow at Harvard Law School. He was called
Alan Keith he fell ill almost immediately afterwards, and died soon after; his final programme was broadcast 12 days after his death. 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. Both he and David were children of Russian-Jewish immigrants. In the mid-1960s Keith's "wild" and beautiful teenaged daughter, Linda Keith, became well connected culturally in the early days of "Swinging London". She was photographed by