Robert Keith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1898
- Died
- December 22, 1966 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Fowler, Indiana, USA
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.
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Filmography
The Fugitive
TV · as Dr. John Kimble · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Doc · 1 ep
Posse from Hell
Movie · as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Duel of Champions
Movie · as Tullio King of Rome
Cimarron
Movie · as Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura
Movie · as Col. Rogers
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Jason Foster · 1 ep
The Lineup
Movie · as Julian
Tempest
Movie · as Capt. Miranov
Men in War
Movie · as The Colonel
My Man Godfrey
Movie · as Alexander Bullock
Written on the Wind
Movie · as Jasper Hadley
Ransom!
Movie · as Police Chief Jim Backett
Between Heaven and Hell
Movie · as Col. Cousins
Guys and Dolls
Movie · as Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me
Movie · as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater!
Movie · as Father Cannon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy · 1 ep
MGM Parade
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Young at Heart
Movie · as Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat
Movie · as Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack
Movie · as Dr. Garson Lee
The Wild One
Movie · as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Battle Circus
Movie · as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Small Town Girl
Movie · as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Devil's Canyon
Movie · as Steve Morgan
Somebody Loves Me
Movie · as Sam Doyle
Just Across the Street
Movie · as Walter Medford
Here Comes the Groom
Movie · as George Degnan
Fourteen Hours
Movie · as Paul E. Cosick
I Want You
Movie · as Thomas Greer
Woman on the Run
Movie · as Inspector Martin Ferris
Edge of Doom
Movie · as Lieutenant Mandel
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie · as Tim Harveigh
Branded
Movie · as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
My Foolish Heart
Movie · as Henry Winters
Studio One
TV · as Brutus · 2 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Boomerang!
Movie · as 'Mac' McCreery
The Shadow Laughs
Movie · as George Hackett
Abraham Lincoln
Movie · as Union Courier (uncredited)