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Robert Keith
Fowler, Indiana, USA
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 not…
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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.
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Dr. John Kimble
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Doc
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1961
Duel of Champions
Movie Tullio King of Rome
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1961
Posse from Hell
Movie Captain Jeremiah Brown
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1960
Cimarron
Movie Sam Pegler
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Jason Foster
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1959
They Came to Cordura
Movie Col. Rogers
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1958
Tempest
Movie Capt. Miranov
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1958
The Lineup
Movie Julian
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1957
My Man Godfrey
Movie Alexander Bullock
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1957
Men in War
Movie The Colonel
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1956
Between Heaven and Hell
Movie Col. Cousins
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1956
Written on the Wind
Movie Jasper Hadley
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1956
Ransom!
Movie Police Chief Jim Backett
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1955
Guys and Dolls
Movie Lt. Brannigan
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Self
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1955
Love Me or Leave Me
Movie Bernard V. Loomis
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1955
Underwater!
Movie Father Cannon
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1954
Young at Heart
Movie Gregory Tuttle
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1954
Drum Beat
Movie Bill Satterwhite
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1954
Atomic Attack
Movie Dr. Garson Lee
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1953
The Wild One
Movie Sheriff Harry Bleeker
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1953
Devil's Canyon
Movie Steve Morgan
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1953
Small Town Girl
Movie Judge Gordon Kimbell
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1953
Battle Circus
Movie Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
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1952
Somebody Loves Me
Movie Sam Doyle
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1952
Just Across the Street
Movie Walter Medford
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1951
I Want You
Movie Thomas Greer
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1951
Here Comes the Groom
Movie George Degnan
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1951
Fourteen Hours
Movie Paul E. Cosick
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1950
Woman on the Run
Movie Inspector Martin Ferris
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1950
Branded
Movie T. Jefferson Leffingwell
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1950
Edge of Doom
Movie Lieutenant Mandel
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1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie Tim Harveigh
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1950
My Foolish Heart
Movie Henry Winters
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1948
Studio One
TV show Brutus
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show
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1947
Boomerang!
Movie 'Mac' McCreery
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1933
The Shadow Laughs
Movie George Hackett
