Robert Keith
Born in Fowler, Indiana, USA — Feb 09 1898• Died Dec 22 1966
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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…
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The Fugitive
Dr. John Kimble
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Doc
The Twilight Zone
Jason Foster
Studio One
Brutus
The Philco Television Playhouse
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
MGM Parade
Self
The Wild One
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Guys and Dolls
Lt. Brannigan
Cimarron
Sam Pegler
My Man Godfrey
Alexander Bullock
Drum Beat
Bill Satterwhite
Love Me or Leave Me
Bernard V. Loomis
Fourteen Hours
Paul E. Cosick
Woman on the Run
Inspector Martin Ferris
Men in War
The Colonel
Small Town Girl
Judge Gordon Kimbell
The Lineup
Julian
Posse from Hell
Captain Jeremiah Brown
Boomerang!
'Mac' McCreery
Abraham Lincoln
Union Courier (uncredited)
Branded
T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Young at Heart
Gregory Tuttle
Edge of Doom
Mandel
Written on the Wind
Jasper Hadley
Ransom!
Police Chief Jim Backett
Tempest
Capt. Miranov
Underwater!
Father Cannon
The Reformer and the Redhead
Tim Harveigh
I Want You
Thomas Greer
Battle Circus
Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Between Heaven and Hell
Col. Cousins
Devil's Canyon
Steve Morgan
Here Comes the Groom
George Degnan
The Shadow Laughs
George Hackett
They Came to Cordura
Col. Rogers
My Foolish Heart
Henry Winters
Somebody Loves Me
Sam Doyle
Just Across the Street
Walter Medford
Atomic Attack
Dr. Garson Lee
Duel of Champions
Tullio King of Rome
The Unexpected Father
Crew