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Robert Keith

Born
February 9, 1898
Died
December 22, 1966
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
Cimarron
(1960)
Sam Pegler
Guys and Dolls
(1955)
Lt. Brannigan
The Wild One
(1953)
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Drum Beat
(1954)
Bill Satterwhite
Written on the Wind
(1956)
Jasper Hadley
Woman on the Run
(1950)
Inspector Martin Ferris
Branded
(1950)
T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Underwater!
(1955)
Father Cannon
Boomerang!
(1947)
'Mac' McCreery
Ransom!
(1956)
Police Chief Jim Backett
The Lineup
(1958)
Julian
Abraham Lincoln
(1930)
Union Courier (uncredited)
Posse from Hell
(1961)
Captain Jeremiah Brown
Love Me or Leave Me
(1955)
Bernard V. Loomis
They Came to Cordura
(1959)
Col. Rogers
My Man Godfrey
(1957)
Alexander Bullock
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