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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-02-09 (127 years old)

Place of Birth

Fowler, Indiana, USA

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").

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Known For

Acting

1963

The Fugitive as Dr. John Kimble

1962

1961

Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome

1960

Cimarron as Sam Pegler

1959

They Came to Cordura as Col. Rogers
The Twilight Zone as Jason Foster

1958

The Lineup as Julian
Tempest as Capt. Miranov

1957

Men in War as The Colonel
My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock

1956

Written on the Wind as Jasper Hadley
Ransom! as Police Chief Jim Backett
Between Heaven and Hell as Col. Cousins

1955

Guys and Dolls as Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater! as Father Cannon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy

1954

Young at Heart as Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat as Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack as Dr. Garson Lee

1953

The Wild One as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Battle Circus as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
Small Town Girl as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Devil's Canyon as Steve Morgan

1952

Somebody Loves Me as Sam Doyle
Just Across the Street as Walter Medford

1951

Here Comes the Groom as George Degnan
Fourteen Hours as Paul E. Cosick
I Want You as Thomas Greer

1950

Woman on the Run as Inspector Martin Ferris
Edge of Doom as Mandel
Branded as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
My Foolish Heart as Henry Winters

1948

1947

Boomerang! as 'Mac' McCreery

1933

The Shadow Laughs as George Hackett

1930

Abraham Lincoln as Union Courier (uncredited)

Crew

1932

The Unexpected Father as Additional Dialogue