Robert Keith
Birthday: 1898-02-10 | Place of Birth: Fowler, Indiana, USAFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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Role
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
as Tullio King of Rome
as Sam Pegler
as Col. Rogers
as Capt. Miranov
as Julian
as The Colonel
as Col. Cousins
as Jasper Hadley
as Police Chief Jim Backett
as Bernard V. Loomis
as Father Cannon
as Lt. Brannigan
as Bill Satterwhite
as Gregory Tuttle
as Judge Gordon Kimbell
as Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters
as Sheriff Harry Bleeker
as Steve Morgan
as Sam Doyle
as George Degnan
as Paul E. Cosick
as Henry Winters
as Inspector Martin Ferris
as Mandel
as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
as 'Mac' McCreery