Robert Keith
Actor
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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Filmography
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley 1956
Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan 1955
Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris 1950
The Lineup
as Julian 1958
Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery 1947
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler 1960
Men in War
as The Colonel 1957
Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis 1955
Fourteen Hours
as Paul E. Cosick 1951
Young at Heart
as Gregory Tuttle 1954
Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited) 1930
Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett 1956
Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins 1956
Drum Beat
as Bill Satterwhite 1954
They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers 1959
Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown 1961