Robert Keith
Acting
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.
Born: February 9, 1898
Place of Birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Dr. John Kimble
as Tullio King of Rome
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
as Sam Pegler
as Jason Foster
as Col. Rogers
as Capt. Miranov
as Julian
as Alexander Bullock
as The Colonel
as Col. Cousins
as Jasper Hadley
as Police Chief Jim Backett
as Lt. Brannigan
as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
as Bernard V. Loomis
as Father Cannon
as Gregory Tuttle
as Bill Satterwhite
as Dr. Garson Lee
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
as Steve Morgan
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
as Sam Doyle
as Walter Medford
as Thomas Greer
as George Degnan
as Paul E. Cosick
as Inspector Martin Ferris
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
as Mandel
as Tim Harveigh
as Henry Winters
as Brutus
as 'Mac' McCreery
as George Hackett
as Union Courier (uncredited)