Robert Keith
Acting
Born: 1898-02-09 · Fowler, Indiana, USA
Died: 1966-12-22
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
🎬 Movies (20)
Duel of Champions
1961
Tullio King of Rome
Posse from Hell
1961
Captain Jeremiah Brown
Cimarron
1960
Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura
1959
Col. Rogers
Tempest
1958
Capt. Miranov
The Lineup
1958
Julian
My Man Godfrey
1957
Alexander Bullock
Men in War
1957
The Colonel
Between Heaven and Hell
1956
Col. Cousins
Written on the Wind
1956
Jasper Hadley
Ransom!
1956
Police Chief Jim Backett
Guys and Dolls
1955
Lt. Brannigan
Love Me or Leave Me
1955
Bernard V. Loomis
Underwater!
1955
Father Cannon
Young at Heart
1954
Gregory Tuttle
Drum Beat
1954
Bill Satterwhite
Atomic Attack
1954
Dr. Garson Lee
The Wild One
1953
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
Devil's Canyon
1953
Steve Morgan
Small Town Girl
1953
Judge Gordon Kimbell
