Autographs of Ben Keaton
Benjamin J. Burke-Kennedy (3 May 1956 – 20 March 2026), known by the stage name Ben Keaton, was an Irish actor who appeared in Emmerdale as Jeff Brannigan and in Casualty as Spencer between 1999 and 2002. He also appeared as Father Austin Purcell in "Think Fast, Father Ted", an episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.
Benjamin J. Burke-Kennedy was born in Dublin on 3 May 1956, to Bernard Ernest Burke-Kennedy, an accountant, and Esther Nagle, who had married in Cork in 1938.
Under his stage name Ben Keaton, he became a theatre actor. He appeared at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in Animal Crackers, American Buffalo, Harvey, and Cyrano de Bergerac, and played the role of David Bliss in Noël Coward's Hay Fever. Keaton also worked as a comedian, and had won the Perrier Comedy Award at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival, two Manchester Evening News Best Actor Awards and a Laurence Olivier Nomination. He was a regular guest member with the Comedy Store Players, the Steve Frost Improv All Stars and Eddie Izzard, and appeared in this style of comedy at the Royal Exchange in his show Ben Keaton & Friends which has included Stephen Frost, Niall Ashdown, Steve Steen, Andy Smart, Brian Conley and Paul Merton. He was a founder member of the improv group South of the River with Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach, and set up the Phwoar Horsemen Improv Group in 2016 with Paul Mutagejja.
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Traded items with a signature of Ben Keaton
The most expensive item with a signature of Ben Keaton (Ben Keaton father ted signed genuine authentic autograph signature UACC RD AFTAL) was sold in October 2024 for £24.99 while the cheapest item (CASUALTY SIGNED CAST CARD BEN KEATON AS SPENCER) found a new owner for £0.01 in December 2012. The month with the most items sold (3) was February 2023 with an average selling price of £1.20 for an autographed item of Ben Keaton. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2024 with £19.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was October 2014. In average, an autographed item from Ben Keaton is worth £2.75.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ben Keaton were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K682 | £1.00 |  |
| Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K702 | £1.00 | |
| Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K705 | £1.64 | |
| Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K706 | £1.00 | |
| Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K777 | £1.00 | |
| Ben Keaton 10x8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - Fr. Austin Purcell - K777 | £2.00 | |
| Ben Keaton Casualty Signed Cast Card Photo | £9.90 | |
| Ben Keaton father ted signed genuine authentic autograph signature UACC RD AFTAL | £24.99 | |
| Ben Keaton father ted signed genuine authentic autograph signature UACC RD AFTAL | £19.99 | |
| Ben Keaton signed photo, Casualty TV actor (as Spencer) | £6.99 | |
| Father Ted BEN KEATON MICHAEL REDMOND JOE ROONEY PAT McDONNELL hand signed photo | £24.50 | |
| Father Ted cult TV comedy scene 8x10 photo signed by Ben Keaton | £3.10 | |
| Father Ted TV comedy scene 8x10 photo signed by actor Ben Keaton | £3.20 | |
| Father Ted TV comedy series 8x10 photo signed by actor Ben Keaton | £3.20 | |
| SALE!! Ben Keaton 10 x 8 photo signed in person - Father Ted - QC112 | £1.26 | |
