William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889 – June 24, 1984) was a stage actor and Hollywood film director. He was elected to The Lambs in 1921 as a Professional member.
Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros.
Among Keighley’s dozens of directorial credits are ones tied to Lambs: The Green Pastures (1936), The Fighting 69th (1940), and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942).
During World War II, he supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his wife, Genevieve Tobin. In retirement, he became a photographer. He died of a stroke in New York