Robert Keith
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1898
- Died
- December 22, 1966
- Birthplace
- Fowler, Indiana, USA
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
Duel of Champions 1961
as Tullio King of Rome
Posse from Hell 1961
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Cimarron 1960
as Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura 1959
as Col. Rogers
Tempest 1958
as Capt. Miranov
The Lineup 1958
as Julian
My Man Godfrey 1957
as Alexander Bullock
Men in War 1957
as The Colonel
Between Heaven and Hell 1956
as Col. Cousins
Written on the Wind 1956
as Jasper Hadley
Ransom! 1956
as Police Chief Jim Backett
Guys and Dolls 1955
as Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me 1955
as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater! 1955
as Father Cannon
Young at Heart 1954
as Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat 1954
as Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack 1954
as Dr. Garson Lee
The Wild One 1953
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Devil's Canyon 1953
as Steve Morgan
Small Town Girl 1953
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Battle Circus 1953
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Somebody Loves Me 1952
as Sam Doyle
Just Across the Street 1952
as Walter Medford
I Want You 1951
as Thomas Greer
Here Comes the Groom 1951
as George Degnan
Fourteen Hours 1951
as Paul E. Cosick
Woman on the Run 1950
as Inspector Martin Ferris
Branded 1950
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Edge of Doom 1950
as Lieutenant Mandel
The Reformer and the Redhead 1950
as Tim Harveigh
My Foolish Heart 1950
as Henry Winters
Boomerang! 1947
as 'Mac' McCreery
The Shadow Laughs 1933
as George Hackett
The Unexpected Father 1932
Additional Dialogue
Abraham Lincoln 1930
as Union Courier (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.