Robert Keith (actor)
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| Born | Rolland Keith Richey February 10, 1898 Fowler, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | December 22, 1966 (aged 68) Los Angeles, California. U.S. |
| Resting place | Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1924–64 |
| Spouses |
Dorothy Tierney (m. 1930) |
| Children | Brian Keith (1921–1997) |
Rolland Keith Richey (February 10, 1898[citation needed] – December 22, 1966), known professionally as Robert Keith, was an American stage and film actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor.
Early life
Keith was born in Fowler, Indiana, the son of Mary Della (née Snyder) and James Haughey Richey.[1]
Career
He portrayed characters such as the father in Fourteen Hours (1951) and a psychopathic gangster in The Lineup (1958).
He also played the police chief and father of biker Marlon Brando's love interest in the 1953 film The Wild One, and as another cop, this time Brando's antagonist, in the film musical, Guys and Dolls.
Keith had a large supporting role in
Richard Kimble's father in The Fugitive and lead roles on episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Ten O'Clock Tiger" & "Final Escape") and The Twilight Zone ("The Masks"), which was his last screen effort, in the role of Jason Foster, the rich New Orleans patriarch to a family waiting for their benefactor to die. He appeared as scientist Garson Lee in a 1954 episode of The Motorola Television Hour
"Atomic Attack."
Personal life
Keith's second wife was stage actress Helena Shipman, with whom he had a son, actor Brian Keith.[2]
On April 18, 1927, Keith married
Partial filmography
- The Other Kind of Love (1924) as George Benton
- Abraham Lincoln (1930) as Union Courier (uncredited)
- Just Imagine (1930) as Chorus Man (uncredited)
- White Shoulders (1931) as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Bad Company (1931) as Crump aka Professor aka Prof (uncredited)
- The Shadow Laughs (1933) as George Hackett
- Boomerang! (1947) as 'Mac' McCreery
- My Foolish Heart (1949) as Henry Winters
- The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) as Tim Harveigh
- Edge of Doom (1950) as Detective Lieutenant Mandel
- Woman on the Run (1950) as Inspector Ferris
- Branded (1950) as T. Jefferson Leffingwell
- Fourteen Hours (1951) as Paul E. Cosick
- Here Comes the Groom (1951) as George Degnan
- I Want You (1951) as Thomas Greer
- Just Across the Street (1952) as Walter Medford
- Somebody Loves Me (1952) as Sam Doyle
- Battle Circus (1953) as Lieutenant Colonel Hilary Whalters
- Small Town Girl (1953) as Judge Gordon Kimbell
- Devil's Canyon (1953) as Warden Steve Morgan
- The Wild One (1953) as Police Chief Harry Bleeker
- Drum Beat (1954) as Bill Satterwhite
- Young at Heart(1954) as Gregory Tuttle
- Underwater! (1955) as Father Cannon
- Love Me or Leave Me (1955) as Bernard V. Loomis
- Guys and Dolls (1955) as Lieutenant Brannigan
- Ransom! (1956) as Police Chief Jim Backett
- Between Heaven and Hell (1956) as Col. Cousins
- Written on the Wind (1956) as Jasper Hadley
- Men in War (1957) as The Colonel
- My Man Godfrey (1957) as Alexander Bullock
- The Lineup (1958) as Julian
- Tempest (1958) as Capt. Miranov
- They Came to Cordura (1959) as Colonel Rogers
- Cimarron (1960) as Sam Pegler
- Posse from Hell (1961) as Captain Jeremiah Brown
- Duel of Champions (1961) as Tullio Hostilio, King of Rome
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962) (Season 7 Episode 26: "Ten O'Clock Tiger") as Arthur 'The Professor' Duffy
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour(1964) (Season 2 Episode 18: "Final Escape") as Doc
References
- ^ "Indiana Hollywood Hall of Fame: Robert Keith". Archived from the original on November 5, 2006. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ ISBN 0786473134.
- ^ "Hair Pulling Is Sufficient For Divorce Decree". The Montana Standard. United Press International. May 5, 1929. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
- ^ "Stage Folk Air Discord In Romance". Los Angeles Times. May 3, 1929. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
- ^ "Actor Forgets Lines—and Marriage Secret is Out". Oakland Tribune. June 4, 1930. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
- ^ "Actor-Writer Robert Keith Rites Pending". Pasadena Star-News. December 27, 1966. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Keith.
- Robert Keith at IMDb
- Robert Keith at the TCM Movie Database
- Robert Keith at the Internet Broadway Database
- Robert Keith at Find a Grave
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