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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Keith (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Fowler, Indiana, USA, 1898-02-09

Died: 1966-12-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Abraham Lincoln	Union Courier (uncredited)	54
2	1933	The Shadow Laughs	George Hackett	46
3	1947	Boomerang!	'Mac' McCreery	70
4	1950	My Foolish Heart	Henry Winters	67
5	1950	The Reformer and the Redhead	Tim Harveigh	63
6	1950	Edge of Doom	Mandel	59
7	1950	Branded	T. Jefferson Leffingwell	59
8	1950	Woman on the Run	Inspector Martin Ferris	68
9	1951	Fourteen Hours	Paul E. Cosick	72
10	1951	Here Comes the Groom	George Degnan	52
11	1951	I Want You	Thomas Greer	52
12	1952	Just Across the Street	Walter Medford	20
13	1952	Somebody Loves Me	Sam Doyle	85
14	1953	Battle Circus	Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters	60
15	1953	Small Town Girl	Judge Gordon Kimbell	57
16	1953	Devil's Canyon	Steve Morgan	48
17	1953	The Wild One	Sheriff Harry Bleeker	66
18	1954	Atomic Attack	Dr. Garson Lee	60
19	1954	Drum Beat	Bill Satterwhite	60
20	1954	Young at Heart	Gregory Tuttle	60
21	1955	Underwater!	Father Cannon	56
22	1955	Love Me or Leave Me	Bernard V. Loomis	67
23	1955	Guys and Dolls	Lt. Brannigan	66
24	1956	Ransom!	Police Chief Jim Backett	72
25	1956	Written on the Wind	Jasper Hadley	70
26	1956	Between Heaven and Hell	Col. Cousins	59
27	1957	Men in War	The Colonel	66
28	1957	My Man Godfrey	Alexander Bullock	63
29	1958	The Lineup	Julian	71
30	1958	Tempest	Capt. Miranov	60
31	1959	They Came to Cordura	Col. Rogers	66
32	1960	Cimarron	Sam Pegler	60
33	1961	Posse from Hell	Captain Jeremiah Brown	62
34	1961	Duel of Champions	Tullio King of Rome	53

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Brutus	50
3	1948	Studio One		50
4	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy	77
5	1959	The Twilight Zone	Jason Foster	84
6	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Doc	78
7	1963	The Fugitive	Dr. John Kimble	72

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1948