Robert Keith
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").
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Movies 34
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
1956
Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
1955
They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers
1959
The Wild One
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
1953
Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
1955
Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
1950
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
1960
Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick
1951
Young at Heart
as Gregory Tuttle
1954
Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
1950
Underwater!
as Father Cannon
1955
Here Comes the Groom
as George Degnan
1951
Small Town Girl
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
1953
Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery
1947
Men in War
as The Colonel
1957
Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins
1956
Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited)
1930
Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
1961
Edge of Doom
as Lieutenant Mandel
1950
Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett
1956
Devil's Canyon
as Steve Morgan
1953
Drum Beat
as Bill Satterwhite
1954
My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
1957
The Lineup
as Julian
1958
Just Across the Street
as Walter Medford
1952
My Foolish Heart
as Henry Winters
1950
Battle Circus
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
1953
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Tim Harveigh
1950
I Want You
as Thomas Greer
1951
Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
1961
Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
1958
Somebody Loves Me
as Sam Doyle
1952
Atomic Attack
as Dr. Garson Lee
1954
The Shadow Laughs
as George Hackett
1933
