Robert Keith

Robert Keith

1898-02-09 Fowler, Indiana, USA Male 40 Known Credits

Biography

Robert Keith (February 10, 1898 – December 22, 1966) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor. He is noted for his performance as the weak-willed father in Fourteen Hours (1951), as a tough cop in Guys and Dolls (1955), and his performance in the 1953 film The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando, in which he played the ineffectual sheriff and father of Brando's love interest. Keith also had a starring role in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind. He had roles on television, including a role as Richard Kimble's father in The Fugitive and lead roles on episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Ten O'Clock Tiger") and The Twilight Zone ("The Masks"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Keith (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-09

Place of Birth

Fowler, Indiana, USA

Known Credits

40

Known For

Acting

Also Known As

Rolland Keith Richey

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Known For Movies

Known For TV Shows

Movie Credits

Here Comes the Groom

1951

George Degnan

Guys and Dolls

1955

Lt. Brannigan

Cimarron

1960

Sam Pegler

Ransom!

1956

Police Chief Jim Backett

Woman on the Run

1950

Inspector Martin Ferris

Branded

1950

T. Jefferson Leffingwell

Atomic Attack

1954

Dr. Garson Lee

Abraham Lincoln

1930

Union Courier (uncredited)

Posse from Hell

1961

Captain Jeremiah Brown

Drum Beat

1954

Bill Satterwhite

Between Heaven and Hell

1956

Col. Cousins

Written on the Wind

1956

Jasper Hadley

The Wild One

1953

Sheriff Harry Bleeker

Edge of Doom

1950

Mandel

They Came to Cordura

1959

Col. Rogers

Love Me or Leave Me

1955

Bernard V. Loomis

Young at Heart

1954

Gregory Tuttle

Battle Circus

1953

Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

Underwater!

1955

Father Cannon

Boomerang!

1947

'Mac' McCreery

My Man Godfrey

1957

Alexander Bullock

Men in War

1957

The Colonel

Small Town Girl

1953

Judge Gordon Kimbell

I Want You

1951

Thomas Greer

The Shadow Laughs

1933

George Hackett

Somebody Loves Me

1952

Sam Doyle

Tempest

1958

Capt. Miranov

Just Across the Street

1952

Walter Medford

My Foolish Heart

1950

Henry Winters

Devil's Canyon

1953

Steve Morgan

The Lineup

1958

Julian

Duel of Champions

1961

Tullio King of Rome

Fourteen Hours

1951

Paul E. Cosick

TV Credits

The Fugitive

1963

Dr. John Kimble (1 episodes)

The Twilight Zone

1959

Jason Foster (1 episodes)

Studio One

1948

Brutus (2 episodes)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Doc (1 episodes)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy (1 episodes)

Movie Production Credits

The Unexpected Father

Additional Dialogue

1932

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