Robert Keith
Also Known As: Rolland Keith Richey
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fowler, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 09, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 22, 1966
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Guys and Dolls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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The Lineup
Overview: In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Here Comes the Groom
Overview: Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-20
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Woman on the Run
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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The Wild One
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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Love Me or Leave Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-26
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Edge of Doom
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Young at Heart
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Men in War
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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The Reformer and the Redhead
Overview: A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Cimarron
Overview: The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Boomerang!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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Written on the Wind
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-04
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Fourteen Hours
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Battle Circus
Overview: A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. 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.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-06
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Posse from Hell
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Ransom!
Overview: A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-24
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Small Town Girl
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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Branded
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Devil's Canyon
Overview: An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Duel of Champions
Overview: 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...
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-19
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Somebody Loves Me
Overview: Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-24
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I Want You
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-22
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Tempest
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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My Foolish Heart
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Shadow Laughs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-26
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Underwater!
Overview: Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-09
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They Came to Cordura
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Drum Beat
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Between Heaven and Hell
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-11
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Atomic Attack
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-19
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Abraham Lincoln
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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Just Across the Street
Overview: A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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