Robert J. Wilke
Acting
Born 1914-05-18
Died 1989-03-28
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
194 credits
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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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Filmography
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Perry Mason
Lassie
Dallas
The Rifleman
The Fugitive
Bonanza
Maverick
Wagon Train
The Virginian
The Wild Wild West
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Lucy Show
Rawhide
My Three Sons
Starsky & Hutch
The Untouchables
Peter Gunn
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Daniel Boone
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Lawman
Four Star Playhouse
Adventures of Superman
Zorro
Bat Masterson
Laramie
The Magnificent Seven
Adventures in Paradise
The Lone Ranger
The Texan
77 Sunset Strip
Tarzan
Bronco
Tombstone Territory
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Gene Autry Show
Lancer
The Deputy
High Noon
Spartacus
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Cisco Kid
The Tall Man
Sam Benedict
Cavalcade of America
Bourbon Street Beat
How the West Was Won
The Third Man
Cimarron Strip
Riverboat
Stripes
Boston Blackie
Law of the Plainsman
Outlaws
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Thin Man
Screen Director's Playhouse
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