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Feb 9, 1898
Dec 22, 1966 (68)
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Robert Keith
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1963 | The Fugitive | Dr. John Kimble |
1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Doc |
1961 | Posse from Hell | Captain Jeremiah Brown |
1961 | Duel of Champions | Tullio King of Rome |
1960 | Cimarron | Sam Pegler |
1959 | The Twilight Zone | Jason Foster |
1959 | They Came to Cordura | Col. Rogers |
1958 | The Lineup | Julian |
1958 | Tempest | Capt. Miranov |
1957 | Men in War | The Colonel |
1957 | My Man Godfrey | Alexander Bullock |
1956 | Written on the Wind | Jasper Hadley |
1956 | Ransom! | Police Chief Jim Backett |
1956 | Between Heaven and Hell | Col. Cousins |
1955 | Guys and Dolls | Lt. Brannigan |
1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy |
1955 | Love Me or Leave Me | Bernard V. Loomis |
1955 | Underwater! | Father Cannon |
1954 | Young at Heart | Gregory Tuttle |
1954 | Drum Beat | Bill Satterwhite |
1954 | Atomic Attack | Dr. Garson Lee |
1953 | The Wild One | Sheriff Harry Bleeker |
1953 | Battle Circus | Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters |
1953 | Devil's Canyon | Steve Morgan |
1953 | Small Town Girl | Judge Gordon Kimbell |
1952 | Somebody Loves Me | Sam Doyle |
1952 | Just Across the Street | Walter Medford |
1951 | Fourteen Hours | Paul E. Cosick |
1951 | Here Comes the Groom | George Degnan |
1951 | I Want You | Thomas Greer |
1950 | Woman on the Run | Inspector Martin Ferris |
1950 | Branded | T. Jefferson Leffingwell |
1950 | Edge of Doom | Mandel |
1950 | My Foolish Heart | Henry Winters |
1950 | The Reformer and the Redhead | Tim Harveigh |
1948 | Studio One | Brutus |
1948 | Studio One | |
1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | |
1947 | Boomerang! | 'Mac' McCreery |
1933 | The Shadow Laughs | George Hackett |
1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Union Courier (uncredited) |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1932 | The Unexpected Father | Additional Dialogue |