Robert Keith
Acting • Born 1898-02-09 – Died 1966-12-22
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 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.
Filmography
42 credits
Guys and Dolls
Movie • 1955
Lt. Brannigan
The Lineup
Movie • 1958
Julian
Here Comes the Groom
Movie • 1951
George Degnan
Woman on the Run
Movie • 1950
Inspector Martin Ferris
The Wild One
Movie • 1953
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Love Me or Leave Me
Movie • 1955
Bernard V. Loomis
Edge of Doom
Movie • 1950
Mandel
Young at Heart
Movie • 1954
Gregory Tuttle
Men in War
Movie • 1957
The Colonel
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie • 1950
Tim Harveigh
Cimarron
Movie • 1960
Sam Pegler
Boomerang!
Movie • 1947
'Mac' McCreery
Written on the Wind
Movie • 1956
Jasper Hadley
My Man Godfrey
Movie • 1957
Alexander Bullock
Fourteen Hours
Movie • 1951
Paul E. Cosick
Battle Circus
Movie • 1953
Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Posse from Hell
Movie • 1961
Captain Jeremiah Brown
Ransom!
Movie • 1956
Police Chief Jim Backett
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1953
Judge Gordon Kimbell
Branded
Movie • 1950
T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Devil's Canyon
Movie • 1953
Steve Morgan
Duel of Champions
Movie • 1961
Tullio King of Rome
Somebody Loves Me
Movie • 1952
Sam Doyle
I Want You
Movie • 1951
Thomas Greer
Tempest
Movie • 1958
Capt. Miranov
My Foolish Heart
Movie • 1950
Henry Winters
The Shadow Laughs
Movie • 1933
George Hackett
Underwater!
Movie • 1955
Father Cannon
They Came to Cordura
Movie • 1959
Col. Rogers
Drum Beat
Movie • 1954
Bill Satterwhite
Between Heaven and Hell
Movie • 1956
Col. Cousins
Atomic Attack
Movie • 1954
Dr. Garson Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Movie • 1930
Union Courier (uncredited)
Just Across the Street
Movie • 1952
Walter Medford
Studio One
TV • 1948
Brutus
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Jason Foster
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Dr. John Kimble
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Studio One
TV • 1948
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Doc
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self