- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1898
- Place of Birth
- Fowler, Indiana, USA
- Died
- December 22, 1966
Robert Keith
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
tvThe Fugitive
1963 · Dr. John Kimble
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Doc
movieDuel of Champions
1961 · Tullio King of Rome
moviePosse from Hell
1961 · Captain Jeremiah Brown
movieCimarron
1960 · Sam Pegler
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959 · Jason Foster
movieThey Came to Cordura
1959 · Col. Rogers
movieTempest
1958 · Capt. Miranov
movieThe Lineup
1958 · Julian
movieMy Man Godfrey
1957 · Alexander Bullock
movieMen in War
1957 · The Colonel
movieBetween Heaven and Hell
1956 · Col. Cousins
movieWritten on the Wind
1956 · Jasper Hadley
movieRansom!
1956 · Police Chief Jim Backett
movieGuys and Dolls
1955 · Lt. Brannigan
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
tvMGM Parade
1955 · Self
movieLove Me or Leave Me
1955 · Bernard V. Loomis
movieUnderwater!
1955 · Father Cannon
movieYoung at Heart
1954 · Gregory Tuttle
movieDrum Beat
1954 · Bill Satterwhite
movieAtomic Attack
1954 · Dr. Garson Lee
movieThe Wild One
1953 · Sheriff Harry Bleeker
movieDevil's Canyon
1953 · Steve Morgan
movieSmall Town Girl
1953 · Judge Gordon Kimbell
movieBattle Circus
1953 · Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
movieSomebody Loves Me
1952 · Sam Doyle
movieJust Across the Street
1952 · Walter Medford
movieI Want You
1951 · Thomas Greer
movieHere Comes the Groom
1951 · George Degnan
movieFourteen Hours
1951 · Paul E. Cosick
movieWoman on the Run
1950 · Inspector Martin Ferris
movieBranded
1950 · T. Jefferson Leffingwell
movieEdge of Doom
1950 · Mandel
movieThe Reformer and the Redhead
1950 · Tim Harveigh
movieMy Foolish Heart
1950 · Henry Winters
tvStudio One
1948 · Brutus
tvThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
movieBoomerang!
1947 · 'Mac' McCreery
movieThe Shadow Laughs
1933 · George Hackett
movieThe Unexpected Father
1932 · Additional Dialogue
movieAbraham Lincoln
1930 · Union Courier (uncredited)