Acting
Robert Keith
EN, IT cinema · 35 credits
Born
9 February 1898
Died
22 December 1966 (aged 68)
Birthplace
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Also known as Rolland Keith Richey
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
Filmography
Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers
The Lineup
as Julian
Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
Men in War
as The Colonel
My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett
Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins
Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater!
as Father Cannon
Young at Heart
as Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat
as Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack
as Dr. Garson Lee
The Wild One
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Battle Circus
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Small Town Girl
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Devil's Canyon
as Steve Morgan
Somebody Loves Me
as Sam Doyle
Just Across the Street
as Walter Medford
Here Comes the Groom
as George Degnan
Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick
I Want You
as Thomas Greer
Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
Edge of Doom
as Lieutenant Mandel
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Tim Harveigh
Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
My Foolish Heart
as Henry Winters
Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery
The Shadow Laughs
as George Hackett
The Unexpected Father
Additional Dialogue
Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited)