Character actor Keenany Wynn was born into a famous show-business family. One in particular is his father, Ed Wynn. Keenan was the one to help to push his father to also become a well-known character actor. Father and son starred in several movies together, such as The Hucksters (1947), Annie Get Your Gun (1950) and Kiss Me, Kate (1953).


Keenan helped push his father Ed Wynn to become an actor. Father of Ned Wynn with first wife Eve Lynn Abbott. Ned is the author of the funny but tragic autobiography, "We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills", which chronicled the wild life of a boy growing up with famous, divorced parents. It offers a fascinating and revealing look into Eve Lynn Abbot's eventual marriage to Van Johnson. Son of Ed Wynn Suffered from tinnitus (a chronic ringing in the ears) during the last years of his life, forcing him to wear hearing aids. Appeared with them in a photo accompanying a 1983 "National Enquirer" article, where he personally warned young people to protect their hearing. He was uncle to the Hudson Brothers by his marriage to Sharley (they are her nephews). Daughter Hilda is married to actor/singer Paul Williams, daughter Emily died in her early 20s from cancer. Part of the reason for his eventual loss of hearing was due to the fact that he raced just about anything on land or water and most the vehicles were loud and un-muffled. He was a regular feature in and around the Detroit Michigan area racing boats, cars and motorcycles, sometimes racing boats on the Detroit River (the border between the U.S. and Ontario Canada). Two sons with wife Eve Lynn Abbott: Ned Wynn ("Edmund") and Tracy Keenan Wynn.