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").

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Known For

The Fugitive 1963 ★ 7.4
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962 ★ 7.9
Posse from Hell 1961 ★ 6.2
Cimarron 1960 ★ 6.2
The Twilight Zone 1959 ★ 8.5
They Came to Cordura 1959 ★ 6.5
My Man Godfrey 1957 ★ 6.5
Men in War 1957 ★ 6.6
Written on the Wind 1956 ★ 7.0
Between Heaven and Hell 1956 ★ 6.2
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 ★ 7.8
Guys and Dolls 1955 ★ 6.6
Love Me or Leave Me 1955 ★ 6.9
Drum Beat 1954 ★ 6.1
The Wild One 1953 ★ 6.6
Small Town Girl 1953 ★ 5.6
Fourteen Hours 1951 ★ 7.3
My Foolish Heart 1950 ★ 6.6
Woman on the Run 1950 ★ 6.8
Edge of Doom 1950 ★ 6.1
The Philco Television Playhouse 1948 ★ 6.6
Studio One 1948 ★ 5.4
Boomerang! 1947 ★ 7.0
Abraham Lincoln 1930 ★ 5.5