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.

Known For

The Fugitive

The Twilight Zone

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

Studio One

MGM Parade

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

All Movies (34)

• Duel of Champions1961 · as Tullio King of Rome
• Posse from Hell1961 · as Captain Jeremiah Brown
• Cimarron1960 · as Sam Pegler
• They Came to Cordura1959 · as Col. Rogers
• Tempest1958 · as Capt. Miranov
• The Lineup1958 · as Julian
• My Man Godfrey1957 · as Alexander Bullock
• Men in War1957 · as The Colonel
• Between Heaven and Hell1956 · as Col. Cousins
• Written on the Wind1956 · as Jasper Hadley
• Ransom!1956 · as Police Chief Jim Backett
• Guys and Dolls1955 · as Lt. Brannigan
• Love Me or Leave Me1955 · as Bernard V. Loomis
• Underwater!1955 · as Father Cannon
• Young at Heart1954 · as Gregory Tuttle
• Drum Beat1954 · as Bill Satterwhite
• Atomic Attack1954 · as Dr. Garson Lee
• The Wild One1953 · as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
• Devil's Canyon1953 · as Steve Morgan
• Small Town Girl1953 · as Judge Gordon Kimbell
• Battle Circus1953 · as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
• Somebody Loves Me1952 · as Sam Doyle
• Just Across the Street1952 · as Walter Medford
• I Want You1951 · as Thomas Greer
• Here Comes the Groom1951 · as George Degnan
• Fourteen Hours1951 · as Paul E. Cosick
• Woman on the Run1950 · as Inspector Martin Ferris
• Branded1950 · as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
• Edge of Doom1950 · as Mandel
• The Reformer and the Redhead1950 · as Tim Harveigh
• My Foolish Heart1950 · as Henry Winters
• Boomerang!1947 · as 'Mac' McCreery
• The Shadow Laughs1933 · as George Hackett
• Abraham Lincoln1930 · as Union Courier (uncredited)

All TV Shows (8)

• The Fugitive1963 · as Dr. John Kimble
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Doc
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Jason Foster
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
• MGM Parade1955 · as Self
• Studio One1948 · as Brutus
• Studio One1948
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948