Robert Keith
Actor
- Born
- February 9, 1898 · Fowler, Indiana, USA
- Died
- December 22, 1966 (age 68)
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.
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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").
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Known for
The Wild One
December 30, 1953
Written on the Wind
October 4, 1956
Guys and Dolls
December 23, 1955
Woman on the Run
November 10, 1950
The Lineup
June 11, 1958
Boomerang!
February 28, 1947
Cimarron
December 1, 1960
Men in War
May 3, 1957
Love Me or Leave Me
May 26, 1955
Fourteen Hours
April 1, 1951
Young at Heart
December 1, 1954
Abraham Lincoln
November 8, 1930
Acting34
- 1961Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome
- 1961Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- 1960Cimarron as Sam Pegler
- 1959They Came to Cordura as Col. Rogers
- 1958Tempest as Capt. Miranov
- 1958The Lineup as Julian
- 1957My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock
- 1957Men in War as The Colonel
- 1956Between Heaven and Hell as Col. Cousins
- 1956Written on the Wind