
Robert Keith
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1898-02-09 – 1966-12-22
Place of birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
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

Guys and Dolls
1955Lt. Brannigan
The Lineup
1958Julian
Here Comes the Groom
1951George Degnan
Woman on the Run
1950Inspector Martin Ferris
The Wild One
1953Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Love Me or Leave Me
1955Bernard V. Loomis
Edge of Doom
1950Mandel
Young at Heart
1954Gregory Tuttle
Men in War
1957The Colonel
The Reformer and the Redhead
1950Tim Harveigh
Cimarron
1960Sam Pegler
Boomerang!
1947'Mac' McCreery
Written on the Wind
1956Jasper Hadley
My Man Godfrey
1957Alexander Bullock
Fourteen Hours
1951Paul E. Cosick
Battle Circus
1953Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Posse from Hell
1961Captain Jeremiah Brown
Ransom!
1956Police Chief Jim Backett
Small Town Girl
1953Judge Gordon Kimbell