Cast & creator
Robert Keith
Best known for The Fugitive, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone
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.
Also known as: Rolland Keith Richey
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film credits
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television credits
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1930–1963 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (43)
Showing 43 of 43 credits
The Fugitive
Dr. John Kimble
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Doc
1962
The Twilight Zone
Jason Foster
1959
Studio One
Brutus
1948Studio One
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
1955
MGM Parade
Self
1955
Written on the Wind
Jasper Hadley
1956
Guys and Dolls
Lt. Brannigan
1955
The Wild One
Sheriff Harry Bleeker
1953
Fourteen Hours
Paul E. Cosick
1951
Love Me or Leave Me
Bernard V. Loomis
1955
Cimarron
Sam Pegler
1960
Woman on the Run
Inspector Martin Ferris
1950
Here Comes the Groom
George Degnan
1951
Drum Beat
Bill Satterwhite
1954
Abraham Lincoln
Union Courier (uncredited)
1930
Posse from Hell
Captain Jeremiah Brown
1961
They Came to Cordura
Col. Rogers
1959
Between Heaven and Hell
Col. Cousins
1956
Men in War
The Colonel
1957
Edge of Doom
Lieutenant Mandel
1950
My Man Godfrey
Alexander Bullock
1957
Ransom!
Police Chief Jim Backett
1956
The Lineup
Julian
1958
Just Across the Street
Walter Medford
1952
Branded
T. Jefferson Leffingwell
1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
Tim Harveigh
1950
Underwater!
Father Cannon
1955
Devil's Canyon
Steve Morgan
1953
Small Town Girl
Judge Gordon Kimbell
1953
My Foolish Heart
Henry Winters
1950
Boomerang!
'Mac' McCreery
1947
Tempest
Capt. Miranov
1958
Young at Heart
Gregory Tuttle
1954
Battle Circus
Lieutenant Colonel Hillary Whalters
1953
I Want You
Thomas Greer
1951
Somebody Loves Me
Sam Doyle
1952
Duel of Champions
Tullio King of Rome
1961
Atomic Attack
Dr. Garson Lee
1954
The Unexpected Father
Additional Dialogue
1932
The Shadow Laughs
George Hackett
1933