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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