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