
Robert J. 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. -
Acting (122 movies)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954

High Noon
1952

Spartacus
1960

Flaming Fury
1949

Night Passage
1957

Tony Rome
1967

The Las Vegas Story
1952

Hitchhike to Happiness
1945

The Magnificent Stranger
1966

Man of the West
1958

Arrowhead
1953

Backlash
1956

The Tarnished Angels
1957

Cowboy and the Senorita
1944

The Far Country
1954

Written on the Wind
1956

The Ghost Goes Wild
1947

A Gunfight
1971

The Rookies
1972

The Inner Circle
1946

Bandits of the Badlands
1945

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973

Santee
1973

Gun the Man Down
1956

Hot Summer Night
1957

Fate Is the Hunter
1964

The Lone Ranger
1956

The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938

The Gun Hawk
1963

Homicide for Three
1948

War Paint
1953

Best of the Badmen
1951

San Quentin
1937

Canyon River
1956

San Antonio Kid
1944

Cattle Town
1952

Return to Warbow
1958

Hellgate
1952

Never Steal Anything Small
1959

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1971

The Slowest Gun in the West
1960

Code of the Prairie
1944

Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944

Daredevils of the Clouds
1948

Overland Telegraph
1951

Cow Country
1953

From Here to Eternity
1953

Smoke Signal
1955

Smoky
1966

Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939

That Man's Here Again
1937

Star Reporter
1939

Vigilantes of Dodge City
1944

Corpus Christi Bandits
1945

Sheriff of Cimarron
1945

Road Agent
1952

Frontier Outpost
1950

They Call It Murder
1971

The Magnificent Seven
1960

Two Guns and a Badge
1954

Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945

Sierra Sue
1941

The Desperate Mission
1969

The Long Rope
1961

Days of Heaven
1978

Saddle Legion
1951

Adventures of Red Ryder
1940

Bordertown Trail
1944

Call of the Rockies
1944

Gunplay
1951

Pistol Harvest
1951

Hot Lead
1951

Cyclone Fury
1951

The Cheyenne Social Club
1970

In Old Missouri
1940

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941

Strange Lady in Town
1955

Wyoming Roundup
1952

In Old Monterey
1939

Grand Ole Opry
1940

Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947

Web of Danger
1947

Blackmail
1947

Traffic in Crime
1946

The Catman of Paris
1946

Passkey to Danger
1946

Earl Carroll Vanities
1945

Faces in the Fog
1944

The Fighting Seabees
1944

The Wyoming Bandit
1949

Coyote Canyon
1949

Across the Badlands
1950

Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950

The Desert Hawk
1950

Fargo
1952

The Maverick
1952

The Hallelujah Trail
1965

Law of the Canyon
1947

Sheriff of Sundown
1944

Rough Riders of Cheyenne
1945
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