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