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