Personal Info
Known Credits
34
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1898-02-09 (127 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Also Known For
Rolland Keith Richey
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 ...
Acting
1961 --
Duel of Champions
| Tullio King of Rome
1961 --
Posse from Hell
| Captain Jeremiah Brown
1960 --
Cimarron
| Sam Pegler
1959 --
They Came to Cordura
| Col. Rogers
1958 --
Tempest
| Capt. Miranov
1958 --
The Lineup
| Julian
1957 --
My Man Godfrey
| Alexander Bullock
1957 --
Men in War
| The Colonel
1956 --
Between Heaven and Hell
| Col. Cousins
1956 --
Written on the Wind
| Jasper Hadley
1956 --
Ransom!
| Police Chief Jim Backett
1955 --
Guys and Dolls
| Lt. Brannigan
1955 --
Love Me or Leave Me
| Bernard V. Loomis
1955 --
Underwater!
| Father Cannon
1954 --
Young at Heart
| Gregory Tuttle
1954 --
Drum Beat
| Bill Satterwhite
1954 --
Atomic Attack
| Dr. Garson Lee
1953 --
The Wild One
| Sheriff Harry Bleeker
1953 --
Devil's Canyon
| Steve Morgan
1953 --
Small Town Girl
| Judge Gordon Kimbell
1953 --
Battle Circus
| Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
1952 --
Somebody Loves Me
| Sam Doyle
1952 --
Just Across the Street
| Walter Medford
1951 --
I Want You
| Thomas Greer
1951 --
Here Comes the Groom
| George Degnan
1951 --
Fourteen Hours
| Paul E. Cosick
1950 --
Woman on the Run
| Inspector Martin Ferris
1950 --
Branded
| T. Jefferson Leffingwell
1950 --
Edge of Doom
| Mandel
1950 --
The Reformer and the Redhead
| Tim Harveigh
1950 --
My Foolish Heart
| Henry Winters
1947 --
Boomerang!
| 'Mac' McCreery
1933 --
The Shadow Laughs
| George Hackett
1930 --
Abraham Lincoln
| Union Courier (uncredited)