Robert Keith
Known For
Acting
Born
1898-02-09 in Fowler, Indiana, USA
Died
1966-12-22
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.
Most Known For
The Twilight Zone
as Jason Foster
The Fugitive
as Dr. John Kimble
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Doc
Studio One
as Brutus
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
MGM Parade
as Self
Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
I Want You
as Thomas Greer
Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
The Wild One
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Somebody Loves Me
as Sam Doyle
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick
Here Comes the Groom
as George Degnan
Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
Men in War
as The Colonel
Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell