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Robert Keith

Robert Keith

Birthday: 1898-02-10 | Place of Birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
Posse from Hell

as    Captain Jeremiah Brown

1961
Duel of Champions

as    Tullio King of Rome

1960
Cimarron

as    Sam Pegler

1959
They Came to Cordura

as    Col. Rogers

1958
Tempest

as    Capt. Miranov

1958
The Lineup

as    Julian

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
Love Me or Leave Me

as    Bernard V. Loomis

1955
Underwater!

as    Father Cannon

1955
Guys and Dolls

as    Lt. Brannigan

1954
Drum Beat

as    Bill Satterwhite

1954
Young at Heart

as    Gregory Tuttle

1953
Small Town Girl

as    Judge Gordon Kimbell

1953
Battle Circus

as    Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters

1953
The Wild One

as    Sheriff Harry Bleeker

1953
Devil's Canyon

as    Steve Morgan

1952
Somebody Loves Me

as    Sam Doyle

1951
Here Comes the Groom

as    George Degnan

1951
Fourteen Hours

as    Paul E. Cosick

1950
My Foolish Heart

as    Henry Winters

1950
Woman on the Run

as    Inspector Martin Ferris

1950
Edge of Doom

as    Mandel

1950
Branded

as    T. Jefferson Leffingwell

1947
Boomerang!

as    'Mac' McCreery