Robert Keith

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"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Keith (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Robert Keith
  • Popularity: 0.6729
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1898-02-09
  • Place of Birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
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  • Also Known As: Rolland Keith Richey
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Robert Keith Movies

  • 1955
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    Guys and Dolls

    Guys and Dolls

    6.541 1955 HD

    Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

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  • 1958
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    The Lineup

    The Lineup

    7.1 1958 HD

    In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

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  • 1951
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    Here Comes the Groom

    Here Comes the Groom

    5.2 1951 HD

    Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

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  • 1950
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    Woman on the Run

    Woman on the Run

    6.735 1950 HD

    Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

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  • 1953
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    The Wild One

    The Wild One

    6.6 1953 HD

    The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.

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  • 1955
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    Love Me or Leave Me

    Love Me or Leave Me

    6.673 1955 HD

    A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

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  • 1950
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    Edge of Doom

    Edge of Doom

    5.917 1950 HD

    A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

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  • 1954
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    Young at Heart

    Young at Heart

    5.965 1954 HD

    The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

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  • 1957
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    Men in War

    Men in War

    6.603 1957 HD

    In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.

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  • 1950
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    The Reformer and the Redhead

    The Reformer and the Redhead

    6.3 1950 HD

    A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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  • 1960
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    Cimarron

    Cimarron

    6 1960 HD

    The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

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  • 1947
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    Boomerang!

    Boomerang!

    7 1947 HD

    When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.

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  • 1956
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    Written on the Wind

    Written on the Wind

    6.946 1956 HD

    Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.

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  • 1957
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    My Man Godfrey

    My Man Godfrey

    6.4 1957 HD

    The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.

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  • 1951
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    Fourteen Hours

    Fourteen Hours

    7.2 1951 HD

    A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

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  • 1953
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    Battle Circus

    Battle Circus

    6 1953 HD

    A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 8666th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. Jed Webbe. Major Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.

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  • 1961
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    Posse from Hell

    Posse from Hell

    6.2 1961 HD

    Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.

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  • 1956
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    Ransom!

    Ransom!

    7.2 1956 HD

    A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.

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  • 1953
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    Small Town Girl

    Small Town Girl

    5.409 1953 HD

    Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

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  • 1950
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    Branded

    Branded

    5.9 1950 HD

    A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

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  • 1953
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    Devil's Canyon

    Devil's Canyon

    4.591 1953 HD

    An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

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  • 1961
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    Duel of Champions

    Duel of Champions

    5.3 1961 HD

    A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel...

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  • 1952
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    Somebody Loves Me

    Somebody Loves Me

    8.5 1952 HD

    Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.

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  • 1951
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    I Want You

    I Want You

    4.714 1951 HD

    The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.

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  • 1958
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    Tempest

    Tempest

    6 1958 HD

    A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.

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  • 1950
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    My Foolish Heart

    My Foolish Heart

    6.444 1950 HD

    After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.

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  • 1933
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    The Shadow Laughs

    The Shadow Laughs

    4.6 1933 HD

    The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.

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  • 1955
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    Underwater!

    Underwater!

    5.396 1955 HD

    Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.7 1959 HD

    An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

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  • 1954
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    Drum Beat

    Drum Beat

    6 1954 HD

    President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.

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  • 1956
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    Between Heaven and Hell

    Between Heaven and Hell

    6.031 1956 HD

    Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man.

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  • 1954
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    Atomic Attack

    Atomic Attack

    6 1954 HD

    A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City.

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  • 1930
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    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    5.4 1930 HD

    A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

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  • 1952
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    Just Across the Street

    Just Across the Street

    2 1952 HD

    A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.

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  • 1932
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    The Unexpected Father

    The Unexpected Father

    1 1932 HD

    A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1959
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.462 1959 HD

    An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.763 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1963
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    The Fugitive

    The Fugitive

    7.2 1963 HD

    Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    6.3 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1962
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    7.838 1962 HD

    A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

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