Robert Kellard graduated from Hollywood High School and attended Santa Monica Junior College for a year.

Although third billed, Kellard was ostensibly the hero in Republic’s adaptation of Sax Rohmer’s Drums of Fu Manchu.

He followed this by playing the sidekick of Allan 'Rocky' Lane in the Zane Grey comic strip based King of the Royal Mounted.

He enlisted in the US Navy in 1942 and returned to Columbia in 1946, accepting supporting roles in the films Gilda and The Jolson Story.

[3] Kellard made his last appearance in a 1951 episode of ABC's Western television series, The Lone Ranger.