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Robert Keith
Actor
Born February 9, 1898Died December 22, 1966 (68 years)
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").
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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").
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Known For
Filmography
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Dr. John Kimble |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Dr. Walter Sommers |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Doc |
| 1961 | Duel of Champions · as Tullio King Of Rome |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Gen. Johanson |
| 1961 | Posse from Hell · as Captain Jeremiah Brown |
| 1960 | Cimarron · as Sam Pegler |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Jason Foster |
| 1959 | They Came to Cordura · as Col. Rogers |
| 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 | Written on the Wind · as Jasper Hadley |
| 1956 | Between Heaven and Hell · as Col. Cousins |
| 1956 | Ransom! · as Police Chief Jim Backett |
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls · as Lt. Brannigan |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Arthur 'the Professor' Duffy |
| 1955 | Love Me or Leave Me · as Bernard V. Loomis |
| 1955 | Underwater! · as Father Cannon |
| 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 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as (segment "the Happy Journey") |
| 1952 | Somebody Loves Me · as Sam Doyle |
| 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 | The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series) · as Robert E. Lee |
| 1950 | Edge of Doom · as Mandel |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) · as Mr. Douglass |
| 1950 | The Reformer and the Redhead · as Tim Harveigh |
| 1949 | My Foolish Heart · as Henry Winters |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Brutus |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1947 | Boomerang! · as 'mac' Mccreery |
| 1933 | The Shadow Laughs · as George Hackett |
| 1931 | Bad Company · as The Professor - Member Of Yachting Party |
| 1931 | A Woman of Experience · as Submarine Crewman |
| 1930 | Just Imagine · as Chorus Man |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln · as Union Courier (uncredited) |