Cast
Robert J. Wilke
Acting
Cast
Robert J. Wilke
Known for
Acting
Born
1914-05-18
From
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died
1989-03-28
Also known as Bob Wilke, Robert Wilke, Robert Joseph Wilke
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. -
★7.5
MOVIE1960
The Magnificent Seven
as Wallace
★7.7
MOVIE1952
High Noon
as Jim Pierce
★7.5
MOVIE1960
Spartacus
as Guard captain
★7.1
MOVIE1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
as First Mate of the Nautilus
★6.6
MOVIE1981
Stripes
as Gen. Barnicke
★6.3
MOVIE1956
The Lone Ranger
as Cassidy
★7.5
MOVIE1978
Days of Heaven
as The Farm Foreman
★7.3
MOVIE1953
From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. Henderson (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1957
Hot Summer Night
as Tom Ellis (as Robert Wilke)
★5.7
MOVIE1946
The Inner Circle
as Police Officer Cummings (as Bob Wilke)
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Written on the Wind
as Dan Willis
★3.9
MOVIE1939
Star Reporter
as Reporter
★6.5
MOVIE1964
Fate Is the Hunter
as Stillman
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Best of the Badmen
as Jim Younger
★6.1
MOVIE1965
The Hallelujah Trail
as Chief Five Barrels
★6.5
MOVIE1956
Backlash
as Jeff Welker
★6.2
MOVIE1944
The Fighting Seabees
as Arriving Construction Worker (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1955
Smoke Signal
as Daly
★5.8
MOVIE1971
A Gunfight
as Marshal Tom Cater
★6.3
MOVIE1955
Wichita
as Ben Thompson
★6.9
MOVIE1954
The Far Country
as Madden
★6.6
MOVIE1958
Man of the West
as Ponch
★6.4
MOVIE1970
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Corey Bannister
★5.4
MOVIE1951
Vengeance Valley
as Cowhand (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Night Passage
as Concho
★5.6
MOVIE1956
The Rawhide Years
as Neal (as Robert Wilke)
★6.3
MOVIE1956
Raw Edge
as Sile Doty
★4.9
MOVIE1955
Strange Lady in Town
as Karg
★5.6
MOVIE1954
The Lone Gun
as Hort Moran (as Robert Wilke)
★6.5
MOVIE1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1953
Arrowhead
as Sgt. Stone
★6.4
MOVIE1967
Tony Rome
as Ralph Turpin
★5.6
MOVIE1953
War Paint
as Trooper Grady
★6.8
MOVIE1957
The Tarnished Angels
as Hank
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Two Guns and a Badge
as Moore - Outlaw
★5.5
MOVIE1973
Santee
as Deaks (as Robert Wilke)
★6.5
MOVIE1956
Gun the Man Down
as Matt Rankin
★5.6
MOVIE1946
The Catman of Paris
as The Catman (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1964
Shock Treatment
as Technician Mike Newton (as Robert Wilke)
★4.6
MOVIE1969
The Desperate Mission
as Gant
★5.8
MOVIE1973
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as The Sheriff
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Shotgun
as Bentley (as Robert Wilke)
★6.2
MOVIE1961
The Long Rope
as Ben Matthews
★6.3
MOVIE1971
They Call It Murder
as Sheriff Rex Brandon
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Buck Privates Come Home
as GI Buddy (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Badman's Territory
as Deputy Marshal (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1952
Hellgate
as Sgt. Maj. Kearn
★6.0
MOVIE1952
The Las Vegas Story
as Clayton (as Robert Wilke)
★6.5
MOVIE1949
The Wyoming Bandit
as Sam
★5.4
MOVIE1950
The Desert Hawk
as Camel Driver
★5.9
MOVIE1971
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
as Hugh Fielding
★9.0
MOVIE1952
The Maverick
as Massey
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Traffic in Crime
as Hogan's Driver
★7.0
MOVIE1972
The Rookies
as Officer Shaw
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Wild and Wooly
as Demas Scott
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Santa Fe Saddlemates
as Rawhide
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Outcasts of Black Mesa
as Curt - Henchman (as Bob Wilke)
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Rendezvous with Annie
as MP (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Pistol Harvest
as Andy Baylor
★6.7
MOVIE1966
Smoky
as Jeff Nicks
★5.7
MOVIE1945
Sunset in El Dorado
as Curley Roberts
★5.1
MOVIE1963
The Gun Hawk
as Johnny Flanders
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Ghost Goes Wild
as Burglar
★6.5
MOVIE1948
Daredevils of the Clouds
as Joe
★7.0
MOVIE1966
The Magnificent Stranger
as Sheriff McVey
★6.5
MOVIE1979
The Sweet Creek County War
★5.8
MOVIE1944
Cowboy and the Senorita
as Townsman (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1951
Saddle Legion
as Henchman Hooker
★4.3
MOVIE1944
Faces in the Fog
as Photographer
★6.6
MOVIE1937
San Quentin
as Young Convict in Yard (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Sheriff of Sundown
as Bradley - Henchman (as Bob Wilke)
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Hitchhike to Happiness
as Stage Hand (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1946
White Tie and Tails
as Starter (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Hidden Valley Outlaws
as Rancher (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1940
Grand Ole Opry
as Hillbilly (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Mule Train
as Bradshaw - Henchman (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Across the Badlands
as Duke Jackson / Keno Jackson (as Bob Wilke)
★7.6
MOVIE1952
Cattle Town
as Keeno
★5.7
MOVIE1948
Homicide for Three
as Policeman
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Passkey to Danger
as Police Sergeant
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Laramie
as Cronin (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Flaming Fury
★6.5
MOVIE1956
Canyon River
as Joe Graycoe
★6.3
MOVIE1939
In Old Monterey
as Man on Wagon
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Law of the Canyon
as Knife-Throwing Henchman (uncredited)
★4.6
MOVIE1953
Cow Country
as Sledge
★6.8
MOVIE1939
S.O.S Tidal Wave
as Man in TV Studio
★5.9
MOVIE1958
Return to Warbow
as Red
★4.5
MOVIE1960
The Slowest Gun in the West
as Billy the Kid Blake
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Overland Telegraph
as Bellew - Henchman (as Robert Wilke)
★5.3
MOVIE1943
Whispering Footsteps
as Bank Customer
★6.8
MOVIE1951
Hot Lead
as Stoney Dawson
★7.0
MOVIE1937
That Man's Here Again
as (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
as Cutter Helmsman
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Coyote Canyon
as Deputy Sheriff Ed (as Bob Wilkie)
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Frontier Outpost
as Krag Benson
★4.2
MOVIE1947
Blackmail
as Policeman
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Adventures of Red Ryder
as Henchman
★6.8
MOVIE1940
In Old Missouri
as Hillbilly
★6.2
MOVIE1949
The Blonde Bandit
as Police Det. Walker
★4.8
MOVIE1939
Daredevils of the Red Circle
as G-Man
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Sheriff of Cimarron
as Henchman Dobie
★4.6
MOVIE1945
Bandits of the Badlands
as Keller
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Carson City Raiders
as Ed Noble
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Code of the Prairie
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Bordertown Trail
as Henchman
★5.5
MOVIE1947
Web of Danger
as Station Wagon Driver
★8.2
MOVIE1959
Never Steal Anything Small
as Lennie
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Call of the Rockies
as Deputy Jim
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Fargo
as Link - Henchman
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Road Agent
as Slab Babcock
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Trail of Kit Carson
as Dave MacRoy (as Bob Wilke)
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Sierra Sue
as Carnival Spectator (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Lone Texas Ranger
as Henchman (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
as Cab Driver
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Gunplay
as Henchman Winslow
★6.0
MOVIE1951
Cyclone Fury
as Henchman Bunco (as Bob Wilke)
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
as Smoke - Henchman (as Bob Wilke)
★3.1
MOVIE1947
Twilight on the Rio Grande
as Henchman
★8.0
MOVIE1944
San Antonio Kid
as Henchman
★9.0
MOVIE1945
Corpus Christi Bandits
as Henchman Steve
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Vigilantes of Dodge City
as Bill
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Wyoming Roundup
as Wyatt - Henchman
★6.8
MOVIE1938
The Fighting Devil Dogs
as Marine in Shanghai (uncredited)