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.

Filmography

• The Fugitive — Dr. John Kimble
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Doc
• 1961Duel of Champions — Tullio King of Rome
• 1961Posse from Hell — Captain Jeremiah Brown
• 1960Cimarron — Sam Pegler
• The Twilight Zone — Jason Foster
• 1959They Came to Cordura — Col. Rogers
• 1958Tempest — Capt. Miranov
• 1958The Lineup — Julian
• 1957Men in War — The Colonel
• 1957My Man Godfrey — Alexander Bullock
• 1956Between Heaven and Hell — Col. Cousins
• 1956Ransom! — Police Chief Jim Backett
• 1956Written on the Wind — Jasper Hadley
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
• 1955Guys and Dolls — Lt. Brannigan
• 1955Love Me or Leave Me — Bernard V. Loomis
• 1955Underwater! — Father Cannon
• 1954Atomic Attack — Dr. Garson Lee
• 1954Drum Beat — Bill Satterwhite
• 1954Young at Heart — Gregory Tuttle
• 1953Battle Circus — Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
• 1953Devil's Canyon — Steve Morgan
• 1953Small Town Girl — Judge Gordon Kimbell
• 1953The Wild One — Sheriff Harry Bleeker
• 1952Just Across the Street — Walter Medford
• 1952Somebody Loves Me — Sam Doyle
• 1951Fourteen Hours — Paul E. Cosick
• 1951Here Comes the Groom — George Degnan
• 1951I Want You — Thomas Greer
• 1950Branded — T. Jefferson Leffingwell
• 1950Edge of Doom — Lieutenant Mandel
• 1950My Foolish Heart — Henry Winters
• 1950The Reformer and the Redhead — Tim Harveigh
• 1950Woman on the Run — Inspector Martin Ferris
• Studio One — Brutus
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• 1947Boomerang! — 'Mac' McCreery
• 1933The Shadow Laughs — George Hackett
• 1932The Unexpected Father — Additional Dialogue
• 1930Abraham Lincoln — Union Courier (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• MGM Parade — Self