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.
Known For
Credits
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Dr. John Kimble
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Doc
- 1961 · Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome
- 1961 · Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- 1960 · Cimarron as Sam Pegler
- 1959 · The Twilight Zone as Jason Foster
- 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 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
- 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 Le 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 Mandel
- 1950 · The Reformer and the Redhead as Tim Harveigh
- 1950 · My Foolish Heart as Henry Winters
- 1948 · Studio One as Brutus
- 1948 · Studio One as
- 1948 · The Philco Television Playhouse as
- 1947 · Boomerang! as 'Mac' McCreery
- 1933 · The Shadow Laughs as George Hackett
- 1930 · Abraham Lincoln as Union Courier (uncredited)