Robert Keith (actor)

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.

Keith was born in Fowler, Indiana, the son of Mary Della (née Snyder) and James Haughey Richey.

He appeared as scientist Garson Lee in a 1954 episode of The Motorola Television Hour "Atomic Attack".

[3][4] Keith married his fourth wife, Dorothy Tierney, in a secret wedding ceremony on an undisclosed date in 1930.

Among the honorary pallbearers at his funeral were Ronald Reagan, Edward G. Robinson, and James Cagney.

Robert Keith, Anne Revere , Florence McGee, Katherine Emery and Katherine Emmet in the original Broadway production of Lillian Hellman 's The Children's Hour (1934)