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