Robert Keith

Robert Keith

  • Birthday: 1898-02-09
  • Deathday: 1966-12-22
  • Place of birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
  • Also know as: Rolland Keith Richey

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.

Filmography

Guys and Dolls

1955

As Lt. Brannigan

The Lineup

1958

As Julian

Here Comes the Groom

1951

As George Degnan

Love Me or Leave Me

1955

As Bernard V. Loomis

Woman on the Run

1950

As Inspector Martin Ferris

The Wild One

1953

As Sheriff Harry Bleeker

Edge of Doom

1950

As Mandel

Young at Heart

1954

As Gregory Tuttle

Men in War

1957

As The Colonel

The Reformer and the Redhead

1950

As Tim Harveigh

Cimarron

1960

As Sam Pegler

Boomerang!

1947

As 'Mac' McCreery

Written on the Wind

1956

As Jasper Hadley

My Man Godfrey

1957

As Alexander Bullock

Fourteen Hours

1951

As Paul E. Cosick

Battle Circus

1953

As Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

Posse from Hell

1961

As Captain Jeremiah Brown

Ransom!

1956

As Police Chief Jim Backett

Small Town Girl

1953

As Judge Gordon Kimbell

Branded

1950

As T. Jefferson Leffingwell

Devil's Canyon

1953

As Steve Morgan

Duel of Champions

1961

As Tullio King of Rome

Somebody Loves Me

1952

As Sam Doyle

I Want You

1951

As Thomas Greer

My Foolish Heart

1950

As Henry Winters

The Shadow Laughs

1933

As George Hackett

Tempest

1958

As Capt. Miranov

Underwater!

1955

As Father Cannon

They Came to Cordura

1959

As Col. Rogers

Drum Beat

1954

As Bill Satterwhite

Between Heaven and Hell

1956

As Col. Cousins

Atomic Attack

1954

As Dr. Garson Lee

Abraham Lincoln

1930

As Union Courier (uncredited)

Just Across the Street

1952

As Walter Medford

Production

The Unexpected Father

1932

As Additional Dialogue

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