Robert Keith
35 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 9, 1898
- Died
- Dec 22, 1966 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Fowler, Indiana, USA
- Also known 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.
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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").
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Known for
Robert Keith: movies and TV shows
Acting (40)
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961 Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
- 1961 Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- 1960 Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
- 1959
- 1959 They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers
- 1958 Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
- 1958 The Lineup
as Julian
- 1957 My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
- 1957 Men in War
as The Colonel
- 1956 Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins
- 1956 Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
- 1956 Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett
- 1955 Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
- 1955
- 1955 Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
- 1955 Underwater!
as Father Cannon
- 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 Devil's Canyon
as Steve Morgan
- 1953 Small Town Girl
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
- 1953 Battle Circus
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
- 1952 Somebody Loves Me
as Sam Doyle
- 1952 Just Across the Street
as Walter Medford
- 1951 I Want You
as Thomas Greer
- 1951 Here Comes the Groom
as George Degnan
- 1951 Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick
- 1950 Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
- 1950 Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
- 1950 Edge of Doom
as Lieutenant Mandel
- 1950 The Reformer and the Redhead
as Tim Harveigh
- 1950 My Foolish Heart
as Henry Winters
- 1948
- 1948
- 1947 Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery
- 1933 The Shadow Laughs
as George Hackett
- 1930 Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited)
Behind the camera (1)
- 1932 The Unexpected Father
Additional Dialogue
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1955 MGM Parade
1 episode