Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-09 (68 years old)
Deathday
1966-12-22
Place of Birth
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 Hit...
1955
as Lt. Brannigan
1958
as Julian
1951
as George Degnan
1950
as Inspector Martin Ferris
1953
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
1955
as Bernard V. Loomis
1950
as Mandel
1954
as Gregory Tuttle
1957
as The Colonel
1950
as Tim Harveigh
1960
as Sam Pegler
1947
as 'Mac' McCreery
1956
as Jasper Hadley
1957
as Alexander Bullock
1951
as Paul E. Cosick
1953
as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
1961
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
1956
as Police Chief Jim Backett
1953
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
1950
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
1953
as Steve Morgan
1961
as Tullio King of Rome
1952
as Sam Doyle
1951
as Thomas Greer
1958
as Capt. Miranov
1950
as Henry Winters
1933
as George Hackett
1955
as Father Cannon
1959
as Col. Rogers
1954
as Bill Satterwhite
1956
as Col. Cousins
1954
as Dr. Garson Lee
1930
as Union Courier (uncredited)
1952
as Walter Medford
1932
as Additional Dialogue
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