Robert Keith
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").
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Full filmography
- The Fugitive (1963) as Dr. John Kimble
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) as Doc
- The Twilight Zone (1959) as Jason Foster
- The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
- Studio One (1948) as Brutus
- Studio One (1948)
- MGM Parade (1955) as Self
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
- Guys and Dolls (1955) as Lt. Brannigan
- Fourteen Hours (1951) as Paul E. Cosick
- The Wild One (1953) as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
- Posse from Hell (1961) as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- Written on the Wind (1956) as Jasper Hadley
- My Man Godfrey (1957) as Alexander Bullock
- Cimarron (1960) as Sam Pegler
- Men in War (1957) as The Colonel
- Drum Beat (1954) as Bill Satterwhite
- Small Town Girl (1953) as Judge Gordon Kimbell
- Ransom! (1956) as Police Chief Jim Backett
- Woman on the Run (1950) as Inspector Martin Ferris
- Love Me or Leave Me (1955) as Bernard V. Loomis
- Underwater! (1955) as Father Cannon
- Young at Heart (1954) as Gregory Tuttle
- Between Heaven and Hell (1956) as Col. Cousins