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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Keith (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Lt. Brannigan
Guys and Dolls
Julian
The Lineup
George Degnan
Here Comes the Groom
Inspector Martin Ferris
Woman on the Run
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
The Wild One
Bernard V. Loomis
Love Me or Leave Me
Mandel
Edge of Doom
Gregory Tuttle
Young at Heart
The Colonel
Men in War
Tim Harveigh
The Reformer and the Redhead
Sam Pegler
Cimarron
'Mac' McCreery
Boomerang!
Jasper Hadley
Written on the Wind
Alexander Bullock
My Man Godfrey
Paul E. Cosick
Fourteen Hours
Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
Battle Circus
Captain Jeremiah Brown
Posse from Hell
Police Chief Jim Backett
Ransom!
Judge Gordon Kimbell
Small Town Girl
T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Branded
Steve Morgan
Devil's Canyon
Tullio King of Rome
Orazi e Curiazi
Sam Doyle
Somebody Loves Me
Thomas Greer
I Want You
Capt. Miranov
La tempesta
Henry Winters
My Foolish Heart
George Hackett
The Shadow Laughs
Father Cannon
Underwater!
Col. Rogers
They Came to Cordura
Bill Satterwhite
Drum Beat
Col. Cousins
Between Heaven and Hell
Dr. Garson Lee
Atomic Attack
Union Courier (uncredited)
Abraham Lincoln
Walter Medford
Just Across the Street
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
34
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-02-09
Place of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Rolland Keith Richey