Personal Info
Rolland Keith Richey
Robert Keith
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Posse from Hell
as Captain Jeremiah Brown
Duel of Champions
as Tullio King of Rome
Cimarron
as Sam Pegler
They Came to Cordura
as Col. Rogers
The Lineup
as Julian
Tempest
as Capt. Miranov
Men in War
as The Colonel
My Man Godfrey
as Alexander Bullock
Written on the Wind
as Jasper Hadley
Between Heaven and Hell
as Col. Cousins
TV Shows
The Fugitive
as Dr. John Kimble · 1 ep.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Doc · 1 ep.
The Twilight Zone
as Jason Foster · 1 ep.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy · 1 ep.
MGM Parade
as Self · 1 ep.
Studio One
1 ep.
The Philco Television Playhouse
1 ep.
