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