
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…
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Filmography
Acting (41)
Movies (34)
Posse from Hell
1961as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Duel of Champions
1961as Tullio King of Rome
Cimarron
1960as Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura
1959as Col. Rogers
Tempest
1958as Capt. Miranov
The Lineup
1958as Julian
Men in War
1957as The Colonel
My Man Godfrey
1957as Alexander Bullock
Between Heaven and Hell
1956as Col. Cousins
Written on the Wind
1956as Jasper Hadley
Ransom!
1956as Police Chief Jim Backett
Guys and Dolls
1955as Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me
1955as Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater!
1955as Father Cannon
Young at Heart
1954as Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat
1954as Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack
1954as Dr. Garson Lee
The Wild One
1953as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Small Town Girl
1953as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Battle Circus
1953as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Devil's Canyon
1953as Steve Morgan
Just Across the Street
1952as Walter Medford
Somebody Loves Me
1952as Sam Doyle
Fourteen Hours
1951as Paul E. Cosick
I Want You
1951as Thomas Greer
Here Comes the Groom
1951as George Degnan
Woman on the Run
1950as Inspector Martin Ferris
Edge of Doom
1950as Mandel
My Foolish Heart
1950as Henry Winters
Branded
1950as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
The Reformer and the Redhead
1950as Tim Harveigh
Boomerang!
1947as 'Mac' McCreery
The Shadow Laughs
1933as George Hackett
Abraham Lincoln
1930as Union Courier (uncredited)
Television (7)
Crew (1)
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