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Robert Keith
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").
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As actor
Posse from Hell
Duel of Champions
Cimarron
They Came to Cordura
The Lineup
Tempest
Men in War
My Man Godfrey
Written on the Wind
Ransom!
Between Heaven and Hell
Guys and Dolls
Love Me or Leave Me
Underwater!
Young at Heart
Drum Beat
Atomic Attack
The Wild One
Battle Circus
Small Town Girl
Devil's Canyon
Somebody Loves Me
Just Across the Street
Here Comes the Groom
Fourteen Hours
I Want You
Woman on the Run
Edge of Doom
The Reformer and the Redhead
Branded