Robert Keith
Known for ActingBorn 1898-02-09 — died 1966-12-22Fowler, Indiana, USA
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
Fourteen Hours
1951 · as Paul E. Cosick
Guys and Dolls
1955 · as Lt. Brannigan
The Wild One
1953 · as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Written on the Wind
1956 · as Jasper Hadley
Posse from Hell
1961 · as Captain Jeremiah Brown
My Man Godfrey
1957 · as Alexander Bullock
Cimarron
1960 · as Sam Pegler
Men in War
1957 · as The Colonel
Love Me or Leave Me
1955 · as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater!
1955 · as Father Cannon
Woman on the Run
1950 · as Inspector Martin Ferris
Somebody Loves Me
1952 · as Sam Doyle
Small Town Girl
1953 · as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Drum Beat
1954 · as Bill Satterwhite
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · as Union Courier (uncredited)
Between Heaven and Hell
1956 · as Col. Cousins
Young at Heart
1954 · as Gregory Tuttle
Edge of Doom
1950 · as Mandel