Robert Keith

About

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

The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries • 1962The FugitiveSeries • 1963The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959Studio OneSeries • 1948The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries • 1948Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries • 1955Guys and DollsMovie • 1955Written on the WindMovie • 1956The Wild OneMovie • 1953They Came to CorduraMovie • 1959Fourteen HoursMovie • 1951Posse from HellMovie • 1961Love Me or Leave MeMovie • 1955My Man GodfreyMovie • 1957Woman on the RunMovie • 1950Between Heaven and HellMovie • 1956Men in WarMovie • 1957Young at HeartMovie • 1954CimarronMovie • 1960Ransom!Movie • 1956Boomerang!Movie • 1947BrandedMovie • 1950Underwater!Movie • 1955Drum BeatMovie • 1954