Biography
Prolific American character actor of primarily villainous roles. The son of German parents, Cincinnati feed-store manager August Wilke and his wife Rose, Robert Joseph Wilke grew up in Cincinnati. He worked as a lifeguard at a Miami, Florida, hotel, where he made contacts in the film business. He was able to obtain work as a stuntman and continued as such until the mid-'40s, when he began getting actual roles in low-budget westerns and serials. A prominent appearance as one of the heavies in Le train sifflera trois fois (1952) led to work in higher-quality films. He worked extensively in television as well as movies, and became an enormously familiar face, though a fairly anonymous one to the general public. His weathered visage made him a perfect western bad guy, but he occasionally played sympathetic parts as well, as in Les moissons du ciel (1978). An expert golfer, he was said by his friend Claude Akins to have earned more money on the golf course than he ever did in movies. He died in 1989. -
Filmography
all 183
Movies 122
TV Shows 61
self 1
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Stripes (1981)
The Sweet Creek County War (1979)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Dallas (1978)
Wild and Wooly (1978)
Run, Joe, Run (1974)
Santee (1973)
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
Kung Fu (1972)
The Rookies (1972)
They Call It Murder (1971)
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971)
A Gunfight (1971)
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
The Desperate Mission (1969)
Lancer (1968)
The Outcasts (1968)
Tony Rome (1967)
The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967)
Cimarron Strip (1967)
Rango (1967)
Tarzan (1966)
The Monroes (1966)
The Magnificent Stranger (1966)
Smoky (1966)
The Legend of Jesse James (1965)
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Daniel Boone (1964)
Shock Treatment (1964)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
The Gun Hawk (1963)
The Dakotas (1963)
The Lucy Show (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Sam Benedict (1962)
The Beachcomber (1962)
Target: The Corruptors! (1961)
The Long Rope (1961)
Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
Spartacus (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Stagecoach West (1960)
The Westerner (1960)
Outlaws (1960)
The Tall Man (1960)
The Slowest Gun in the West (1960)
Bourbon Street Beat (1959)
Adventures in Paradise (1959)
The Third Man (1959)
Law of the Plainsman (1959)
Wichita Town (1959)
Laramie (1959)
Riverboat (1959)
Bonanza (1959)
The Deputy (1959)
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Bat Masterson (1958)
Lawman (1958)
The Rifleman (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Bronco (1958)
Peter Gunn (1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Return to Warbow (1958)
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Tombstone Territory (1957)
Zorro (1957)
The Walter Winchell File (1957)
Maverick (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
The Thin Man (1957)
Wagon Train (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
Night Passage (1957)
Hot Summer Night (1957)
Gun the Man Down (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
Canyon River (1956)
The Rawhide Years (1956)
Raw Edge (1956)
Backlash (1956)
The Lone Ranger (1956)
Cheyenne (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Wichita (1955)
Shotgun (1955)
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Smoke Signal (1955)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
Lassie (1954)
Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
The Lone Gun (1954)
The Far Country (1954)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
War Paint (1953)
Arrowhead (1953)
Cow Country (1953)
The Maverick (1952)
Wyoming Roundup (1952)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Four Star Playhouse (1952)
Adventures of Superman (1952)
Fargo (1952)
Cattle Town (1952)
Hellgate (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Road Agent (1952)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Overland Telegraph (1951)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Hot Lead (1951)
Pistol Harvest (1951)
Cyclone Fury (1951)
Best of the Badmen (1951)
Gunplay (1951)
Saddle Legion (1951)
Frontier Outpost (1950)
Across the Badlands (1950)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
The Gene Autry Show (1950)
Outcasts of Black Mesa (1950)
Coyote Canyon (1949)
The Lone Ranger (1949)
Flaming Fury (1949)
The Wyoming Bandit (1949)
Laramie (1949)
Homicide for Three (1948)
Daredevils of the Clouds (1948)
Carson City Raiders (1948)
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
Blackmail (1947)
Web of Danger (1947)
Law of the Canyon (1947)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947)
White Tie and Tails (1946)
The Inner Circle (1946)
Rendezvous with Annie (1946)
Traffic in Crime (1946)
Passkey to Danger (1946)
Badman's Territory (1946)
The Catman of Paris (1946)
Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945)
Sunset in El Dorado (1945)
Bandits of the Badlands (1945)
Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)
Trail of Kit Carson (1945)
Santa Fe Saddlemates (1945)
Corpus Christi Bandits (1945)
Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
Sheriff of Cimarron (1945)
Faces in the Fog (1944)
Vigilantes of Dodge City (1944)
Sheriff of Sundown (1944)
Code of the Prairie (1944)
San Antonio Kid (1944)
Bordertown Trail (1944)
Call of the Rockies (1944)
Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Whispering Footsteps (1943)
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)
Sierra Sue (1941)
Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
Grand Ole Opry (1940)
In Old Missouri (1940)
In Old Monterey (1939)
Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
S.O.S Tidal Wave (1939)
Star Reporter (1939)
The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris (1937)
San Quentin (1937)
That Man's Here Again (1937)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1914-05-18
Deathday1989-03-28 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceCincinnati, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsBob Wilke, Robert Wilke, Robert Joseph Wilke
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