Person Details
Birthday: 1898-02-10 03:09:41
Death: 1966-12-22 03:09:41
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Most Famous Work
The Fugitive
(1963) Dr. John KimbleThe Twilight Zone
(1959) Jason FosterThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) DocStudio One
(1948) BrutusAlfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Arthur 'The Professor' DuffyThe Wild One
(1953) Sheriff Harry BleekerWritten on the Wind
(1956) Jasper HadleyCimarron
(1960) Sam PeglerActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1963 | Dr. John Kimble | |
1962 | Doc | |
1961 | Tullio King of Rome | |
Captain Jeremiah Brown | ||
1960 | Sam Pegler | |
1959 | Jason Foster | |
Col. Rogers | ||
1958 | Capt. Miranov | |
Julian | ||
1957 | Alexander Bullock | |
The Colonel | ||
1956 | Col. Cousins | |
Jasper Hadley | ||
Police Chief Jim Backett | ||
1955 | Lt. Brannigan | |
Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy | ||
Bernard V. Loomis | ||
Father Cannon | ||
1954 | Gregory Tuttle | |
Bill Satterwhite | ||
Dr. Garson Lee | ||
1953 | Sheriff Harry Bleeker | |
Steve Morgan | ||
Judge Gordon Kimbell | ||
Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters | ||
1952 | Sam Doyle | |
Walter Medford | ||
1951 | Thomas Greer | |
George Degnan | ||
Paul E. Cosick | ||
1950 | Inspector Martin Ferris | |
T. Jefferson Leffingwell | ||
Mandel | ||
Tim Harveigh | ||
Henry Winters | ||
1948 | Brutus | |
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
1947 | 'Mac' McCreery | |
1933 | George Hackett | |
1930 | Union Courier (uncredited) | |
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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1932 | Additional Dialogue | |
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |