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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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Guys and Dolls
  • Woman on the Run
  • Men in War
  • My Foolish Heart
  • I Want You

Known For

  • The Wild One
  • Written on the Wind
  • The Lineup
  • Woman on the Run
  • Love Me or Leave Me
  • Men in War
  • Boomerang!
  • Fourteen Hours
  • Ransom!
  • Young at Heart
  • Cimarron
  • Battle Circus
  • Between Heaven and Hell
  • They Came to Cordura
  • Drum Beat
  • My Man Godfrey
  • Posse from Hell
  • Branded
  • Edge of Doom
  • Underwater!
  • My Foolish Heart
  • Here Comes the Groom
  • Small Town Girl
  • I Want You

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
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)

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