Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1898-02-09
Day of Death
1966-12-22
Place of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Keith (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (34)
Duel of Champions
1961
Posse from Hell
1961
Cimarron
1960
They Came to Cordura
1959
Tempest
1958
The Lineup
1958
My Man Godfrey
1957
Men in War
1957
Between Heaven and Hell
1956
Written on the Wind
1956
Ransom!
1956
Guys and Dolls
1955
Love Me or Leave Me
1955
Underwater!
1955
