Robert Keith
Robert Keith
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
42
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-09 (127 years old)
Place of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Acting

1963

The Fugitive as Dr. John Kimble

1961

Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown

1961

Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome

1960

Cimarron as Sam Pegler

1959

The Twilight Zone as Jason Foster

1959

They Came to Cordura as Col. Rogers

1958

The Lineup as Julian

1958

Tempest as Capt. Miranov

1957

Men in War as The Colonel

1957

My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock

1956

Written on the Wind as Jasper Hadley

1956

Between Heaven and Hell as Col. Cousins

1956

Ransom! as Police Chief Jim Backett

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy

1955

Guys and Dolls as Lt. Brannigan

1955

Underwater! as Father Cannon

1955

Love Me or Leave Me as Bernard V. Loomis

1954

Young at Heart as Gregory Tuttle

1954

Drum Beat as Bill Satterwhite

1954

Atomic Attack as Dr. Garson Lee

1953

The Wild One as Sheriff Harry Bleeker

1953

Battle Circus as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

1953

Small Town Girl as Judge Gordon Kimbell

1953

Devil's Canyon as Steve Morgan

1952

Just Across the Street as Walter Medford

1952

Somebody Loves Me as Sam Doyle

1951

Here Comes the Groom as George Degnan

1951

I Want You as Thomas Greer

1951

Fourteen Hours as Paul E. Cosick

1950

Woman on the Run as Inspector Martin Ferris

1950

My Foolish Heart as Henry Winters

1950

Branded as T. Jefferson Leffingwell

1950

The Reformer and the Redhead as Tim Harveigh

1950

Edge of Doom as Mandel

1948

The Philco Television Playhouse as Not available

1948

Studio One as Brutus

1948

Studio One as Not available

1947

Boomerang! as 'Mac' McCreery

1933

The Shadow Laughs as George Hackett

1930

Abraham Lincoln as Union Courier (uncredited)
Crew

1932

The Unexpected Father Additional Dialogue