Robert Keith
Birthday
1898/02/09
Day of death
1966/12/22 (68 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Also know as
Rolland Keith Richey
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...Read more
Acting
(1955) Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
(1958) The Lineup
as Julian
(1951) Here Comes the Groom
as George Degnan
(1950) Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
(1953) The Wild One
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
(1955) Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
(1950) Edge of Doom
as Mandel
(1954) Young at Heart
as Gregory Tuttle
(1957) Men in War
as The Colonel
(1950) The Reformer and the Redhead
as Tim Harveigh
(1960) Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
(1947) Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery
(1956) Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
(1957) My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
(1951) Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick
(1953) Battle Circus
as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
(1961) Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
(1956) Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett
(1953) Small Town Girl
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
(1950) Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
(1953) Devil's Canyon
as Steve Morgan
(1961) Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
(1952) Somebody Loves Me
as Sam Doyle
(1951) I Want You
as Thomas Greer
(1958) Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
(1950) My Foolish Heart
as Henry Winters
(1933) The Shadow Laughs
as George Hackett
(1955) Underwater!
as Father Cannon
(1959) They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers
(1954) Drum Beat
as Bill Satterwhite
(1956) Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins
(1954) Atomic Attack
as Dr. Garson Lee
(1930) Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited)
(1952) Just Across the Street
as Walter Medford
(1948) Studio One
as Brutus
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Jason Foster
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
(1963) The Fugitive
as Dr. John Kimble
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
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(1948) Studio One
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(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Doc