Robert Keith
Born: 1898-02-09 in Fowler, Indiana, USA
Died: 1966-12-22
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1963
- The Fugitive as Dr. John Kimble
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Doc
1961
- Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome
1960
- Cimarron as Sam Pegler
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Jason Foster
- They Came to Cordura as Col. Rogers
1958
- The Lineup as Julian
- Tempest as Capt. Miranov
1957
- My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock
- Men in War as The Colonel
1956
- Ransom! as Police Chief Jim Backett
- Written on the Wind as Jasper Hadley
- Between Heaven and Hell as Col. Cousins
1955
- Underwater! as Father Cannon
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
- Guys and Dolls as Lt. Brannigan
- Love Me or Leave Me as Bernard V. Loomis
1954
- Drum Beat as Bill Satterwhite
- Atomic Attack as Dr. Garson Lee
- Young at Heart as Gregory Tuttle
1953
- Battle Circus as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
- The Wild One as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
- Small Town Girl as Judge Gordon Kimbell
- Devil's Canyon as Steve Morgan
1952
- Somebody Loves Me as Sam Doyle
- Just Across the Street as Walter Medford
1951
- Here Comes the Groom as George Degnan
- I Want You as Thomas Greer
- Fourteen Hours as Paul E. Cosick
1950
- Branded as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
- Woman on the Run as Inspector Martin Ferris
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Tim Harveigh
- My Foolish Heart as Henry Winters
- Edge of Doom as Mandel
1948
- Studio One as Brutus
- The Philco Television Playhouse
1947
- Boomerang! as 'Mac' McCreery
1933
- The Shadow Laughs as George Hackett
1932
- The Unexpected Father ... (Additional Dialogue)
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Union Courier (uncredited)