Movies List
TV Show List
Days of Heaven

as The Farm Foreman

1978
Santee

as Deaks (as Robert Wilke

1973
A Gunfight

as Marshal Tom Cater

1971
Tony Rome

as Ralph Turpin

1967
Smoky

as Jeff Nicks

1966
The Hallelujah Trail

as Chief Five Barrels

1965
Shock Treatment

as Technician Mike Newton (as Robert Wilke)

1964
The Slowest Gun in the West

as Billy the Kid Blake

1960
Man of the West

as Ponch

1958
Night Passage

as Concho

1957
The Tarnished Angels

as Hank

1958
Hot Summer Night

as Tom Ellis (as Robert Wilke)

1957
Written on the Wind

as Dan Willis

1956
Gun the Man Down

as Matt Rankin

1956
The Lone Ranger

as Cassidy

1956
Raw Edge

as Sile Doty

1956
The Rawhide Years

as Neal (as Robert Wilke)

1956
Smoke Signal

as First Sergeant Daly (as Robert Wilke)

1955
Shotgun

as Bentley (as Robert Wilke)

1955
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as First Mate of the Nautilus

1954
The Far Country

as Madden

1954
The Lone Gun

as Hort Moran (as Robert Wilke)

1954
Arrowhead

as Sgt. Stone

1953
War Paint

as Trooper Grady

1953
Powder River

as

1953
Cow Country

as Sledge

1953
Hellgate

as Sgt. Maj. Kearn

1952
Robert J. Wilke Robert J. Wilke

Birthday

1914-05-18

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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. -
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