Robert Keith
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Robert Keith (born Rolland Keith Richey, 1898 – 1966) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in many dozen films, mainly as a character actor in the 1950s.
Early life
Keith was born in Fowler, Indiana, son of Mary Della (née Snyder) and James Haughey Richey.
Personal life
Helena Shipman, Keith's second wife, had a son, actor Brian Keith, with whom he had a son.
Keith married Peg Entwistle, an actress who was a decade's junior, on April 18, 1927. They were divorced in 1929, with Entwistle blaming abuse and domestic violence in her divorce petition. Keith had deceived her into believing he had never been married before. In 1930, Keith married Dorothy Tierney, his fourth wife, in a private wedding reception held on an undisclosed date. While performing at various theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 1929, the two met in late 1929. The couple lived together until Keith's death on December 22, 1966. Ronald Reagan, Edward G. Robinson, and James Cagney were among the honorary pallbearers at his funeral.
Career
He portrayed characters such as the father in Fourteen Hours (1951) and a psychopathic gangster in The Lineup (1958).
His 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 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" & "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."