profile image

Robert Keith

Feb 09, 1898 - Dec 22, 1966 (68 years old) in Fowler, Indiana, USA

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

poster
The Philco Television Playhouse
poster
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Doc
poster
The Fugitive
Dr. John Kimble
poster
The Twilight Zone
Jason Foster
poster
Studio One
Brutus
poster
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
poster
Guys and Dolls
Lt. Brannigan
poster
Men in War
The Colonel
poster
Abraham Lincoln
Union Courier (uncredited)
poster
The Wild One
Sheriff Harry Bleeker

Credits

Images

image
image