Robert Keith

Robert Keith

Deceased · Born: Feb 9, 1898 · Died: Dec 22, 1966

Personal Details

Born Feb 9, 1898 Fowler, Indiana, USA
Spouse
  • Dorothy Tierney

    ( May 10, 1930 to Dec 23, 1966 )
  • Peg Entwistle

    ( Apr 18, 1927 to May 2, 1929 )
  • Helena Shipman

    ( Jun 7, 1922 to Jan 15, 1926 )
  • Laura Corinne Jackson

    ( Jul 18, 1918 to May 8, 2024 )
Parents
  • James Haughey Richey
  • Mary Della Snyder

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.

Career

1963
The Fugitive
The Fugitive as Dr. John Kimble
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Doc
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The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone as Jason Foster
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1961
Posse from Hell
Posse from Hell as Captain Jeremiah Brown
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Duel of Champions
Duel of Champions as Tullio King of Rome
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
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1960
Cimarron
Cimarron as Sam Pegler
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1959
They Came to Cordura
They Came to Cordura as Col. Rogers
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1958
The Lineup
The Lineup as Julian
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1957
My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock
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Men in War
Men in War as The Colonel
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1956
Written on the Wind
Written on the Wind as Jasper Hadley
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Ransom!
Ransom! as Police Chief Jim Backett
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Between Heaven and Hell
Between Heaven and Hell as Col. Cousins
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1955
Love Me or Leave Me
Love Me or Leave Me as Bernard V. Loomis
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Underwater!
Underwater! as Father Cannon
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Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls as Lt. Brannigan
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1954
Drum Beat
Drum Beat as Bill Satterwhite
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Young at Heart
Young at Heart as Gregory Tuttle
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1953
Devil's Canyon
Devil's Canyon as Steve Morgan
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The Wild One
The Wild One as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
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Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl as Judge Gordon Kimbell
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Battle Circus
Battle Circus as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
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1952
Just Across the Street
Just Across the Street as Walter Medford
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Somebody Loves Me
Somebody Loves Me as Sam Doyle
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1951
Here Comes the Groom
Here Comes the Groom as George Degnan
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I Want You
I Want You as Thomas Greer
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Fourteen Hours
Fourteen Hours as Paul E. Cosick
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The Philco Television Playhouse
1950
Woman on the Run
Woman on the Run as Inspector Martin Ferris
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Edge of Doom
Edge of Doom as Mandel
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My Foolish Heart
My Foolish Heart as Henry Winters
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The Reformer and the Redhead
The Reformer and the Redhead as Tim Harveigh
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Branded
Branded as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
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1947
Boomerang!
Boomerang! as 'Mac' McCreery
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1933
The Shadow Laughs
The Shadow Laughs as George Hackett
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