

Robert Keith
Actor · CrewRobert 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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Posse from Hell
1961
Captain Jeremiah Brown

Duel of Champions
1961
Tullio King of Rome

Cimarron
1960
Sam Pegler

They Came to Cordura
1959
Col. Rogers

The Lineup
1958
Julian

Tempest
1958
Capt. Miranov

Men in War
1957
The Colonel

My Man Godfrey
1957
Alexander Bullock

Written on the Wind
1956
Jasper Hadley

Ransom!
1956
Police Chief Jim Backett

Between Heaven and Hell
1956
Col. Cousins

Guys and Dolls
1955
Lt. Brannigan

Love Me or Leave Me
1955
Bernard V. Loomis

Underwater!
1955
Father Cannon

Young at Heart
1954
Gregory Tuttle

Drum Beat
1954
Bill Satterwhite

Atomic Attack
1954
Dr. Garson Lee

The Wild One
1953
Sheriff Harry Bleeker

Battle Circus
1953
Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters

Small Town Girl
1953
Judge Gordon Kimbell

Devil's Canyon
1953
Steve Morgan

Somebody Loves Me
1952
Sam Doyle

Just Across the Street
1952
Walter Medford

Here Comes the Groom
1951
George Degnan

Fourteen Hours
1951
Paul E. Cosick

I Want You
1951
Thomas Greer

Woman on the Run
1950
Inspector Martin Ferris

Edge of Doom
1950
Mandel

The Reformer and the Redhead
1950
Tim Harveigh

Branded
1950
T. Jefferson Leffingwell

My Foolish Heart
1950
Henry Winters

Boomerang!
1947
'Mac' McCreery

The Shadow Laughs
1933
George Hackett

Abraham Lincoln
1930
Union Courier (uncredited)






