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 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.

Known For

The Twilight Zone

as Jason Foster

The Wild One

as Sheriff Harry Bleeker

Written on the Wind

as Jasper Hadley

Guys and Dolls

as Lt. Brannigan

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy

Woman on the Run

as Inspector Martin Ferris

The Lineup

as Julian

Boomerang!

as 'Mac' McCreery

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Doc

Cimarron

as Sam Pegler