Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/9/1898
Place of Birth
Fowler, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Rolland Keith Richey
Robert Keith
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...
Known For
Abraham Lincoln
as Union Courier (uncredited)
Ransom!
as Police Chief Jim Backett
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
Drum Beat
as Bill Satterwhite
Branded
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
Woman on the Run
as Inspector Martin Ferris
The Wild One
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
The Lineup
as Julian
Underwater!
as Father Cannon
Boomerang!
as 'Mac' McCreery
Love Me or Leave Me
as Bernard V. Loomis
My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
Battle Circus
as Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Small Town Girl
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
Guys and Dolls
as Lt. Brannigan
They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers