
Robert Keith
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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Credits
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The Fugitive 1963Dr. John Kimble★ 7.2
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Doc★ 7.8
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Duel of Champions 1961Tullio King of Rome★ 5.3
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Posse from Hell 1961Captain Jeremiah Brown★ 6.2
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Cimarron 1960Sam Pegler★ 6
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The Twilight Zone 1959Jason Foster★ 8.4
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They Came to Cordura 1959Col. Rogers★ 6.6
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Tempest 1958Capt. Miranov★ 6
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The Lineup 1958Julian★ 7.1
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My Man Godfrey 1957Alexander Bullock★ 6.3
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Men in War 1957The Colonel★ 6.6
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Col. Cousins★ 5.9
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Written on the Wind 1956Jasper Hadley★ 6.9
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Ransom! 1956Police Chief Jim Backett★ 7.2
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Guys and Dolls 1955Lt. Brannigan★ 6.6
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Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy★ 7.7
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Love Me or Leave Me 1955Bernard V. Loomis★ 6.7
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Underwater! 1955Father Cannon★ 5.6
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Young at Heart 1954Gregory Tuttle★ 6
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Drum Beat 1954Bill Satterwhite★ 6
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Atomic Attack 1954Dr. Garson Lee★ 6
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The Wild One 1953Sheriff Harry Bleeker★ 6.6
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Devil's Canyon 1953Steve Morgan★ 4.8
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Small Town Girl 1953Judge Gordon Kimbell★ 5.7
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Battle Circus 1953Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters★ 6
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Somebody Loves Me 1952Sam Doyle★ 8.5
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Walter Medford★ 2
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I Want You 1951Thomas Greer★ 5.2
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Here Comes the Groom 1951George Degnan★ 5.2
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Fourteen Hours 1951Paul E. Cosick★ 7.2
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Woman on the Run 1950Inspector Martin Ferris★ 6.8
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Branded 1950T. Jefferson Leffingwell★ 5.9
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Edge of Doom 1950Mandel★ 5.9
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Tim Harveigh★ 6.3
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My Foolish Heart 1950Henry Winters★ 6.7
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Studio One 1948Brutus★ 5
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★ 6.3
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Boomerang! 1947'Mac' McCreery★ 7
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The Shadow Laughs 1933George Hackett★ 4.6
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Abraham Lincoln 1930Union Courier (uncredited)★ 5.4