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