Robert Keith

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1898-02-09

Deathday 1966-12-22 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Fowler, Indiana, USA

Also Known As Rolland Keith Richey

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

Actor

1963
The Fugitive

as Dr. John Kimble

1961
Duel of Champions

as Tullio King of Rome

1961
Posse from Hell

as Captain Jeremiah Brown

1960
Cimarron

as Sam Pegler

1959
They Came to Cordura

as Col. Rogers

1959
The Twilight Zone

as Jason Foster

1958
Tempest

as Capt. Miranov

1958
The Lineup

as Julian

1957
My Man Godfrey

as Alexander Bullock

1957
Men in War

as The Colonel

1956
Between Heaven and Hell

as Col. Cousins

1956
Written on the Wind

as Jasper Hadley

1956
Ransom!

as Police Chief Jim Backett

1955
Guys and Dolls

as Lt. Brannigan

1955
Love Me or Leave Me

as Bernard V. Loomis

1955
Underwater!

as Father Cannon

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy

1954
Young at Heart

as Gregory Tuttle

1954
Drum Beat

as Bill Satterwhite

1954
Atomic Attack

as Dr. Garson Lee

1953
The Wild One

as Sheriff Harry Bleeker

1953
Devil's Canyon

as Steve Morgan

1953
Small Town Girl

as Judge Gordon Kimbell

1953
Battle Circus

as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

1952
Somebody Loves Me

as Sam Doyle

1952
Just Across the Street

as Walter Medford

1951
I Want You

as Thomas Greer

1951
Here Comes the Groom

as George Degnan

1951
Fourteen Hours

as Paul E. Cosick

1950
Woman on the Run

as Inspector Martin Ferris

1950
Branded

as T. Jefferson Leffingwell

1950
Edge of Doom

as Mandel

1950
1950
My Foolish Heart

as Henry Winters

1948
Studio One

as Brutus

1947
Boomerang!

as 'Mac' McCreery

1933
The Shadow Laughs

as George Hackett

1930
Abraham Lincoln

as Union Courier (uncredited)

Crew

1932
The Unexpected Father

as Additional Dialogue