Robert Keith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-09 (68 years old)

Deathday

1966-12-22

Place of Birth

Fowler, Indiana, USA

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 Hit...

Acting

1955

Guys and Dolls

as Lt. Brannigan

1958

The Lineup

as Julian

1951

Here Comes the Groom

as George Degnan

1950

Woman on the Run

as Inspector Martin Ferris

1953

The Wild One

as Sheriff Harry Bleeker

1955

Love Me or Leave Me

as Bernard V. Loomis

1950

Edge of Doom

as Mandel

1954

Young at Heart

as Gregory Tuttle

1957

Men in War

as The Colonel

1950

1960

Cimarron

as Sam Pegler

1947

Boomerang!

as 'Mac' McCreery

1956

Written on the Wind

as Jasper Hadley

1957

My Man Godfrey

as Alexander Bullock

1951

Fourteen Hours

as Paul E. Cosick

1953

Battle Circus

as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

1961

Posse from Hell

as Captain Jeremiah Brown

1956

Ransom!

as Police Chief Jim Backett

1953

Small Town Girl

as Judge Gordon Kimbell

1950

Branded

as T. Jefferson Leffingwell

1953

Devil's Canyon

as Steve Morgan

1961

Duel of Champions

as Tullio King of Rome

1952

Somebody Loves Me

as Sam Doyle

1951

I Want You

as Thomas Greer

1958

Tempest

as Capt. Miranov

1950

My Foolish Heart

as Henry Winters

1933

The Shadow Laughs

as George Hackett

1955

Underwater!

as Father Cannon

1959

They Came to Cordura

as Col. Rogers

1954

Drum Beat

as Bill Satterwhite

1956

1954

Atomic Attack

as Dr. Garson Lee

1930

Abraham Lincoln

as Union Courier (uncredited)

1952

Just Across the Street

as Walter Medford

Production

1932

The Unexpected Father

as Additional Dialogue

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