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. -
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-05-18
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Cast
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
7.04
High Noon
1952
7.67
Spartacus
1960
7.54
Flaming Fury
1949
0.00
Night Passage
1957
6.40
Tony Rome
1967
6.40
The Las Vegas Story
1952
5.80
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
5.00
The Magnificent Stranger
1966
6.70
Man of the West
1958
6.56
Arrowhead
1953
5.90
Backlash
1956
6.40
The Tarnished Angels
1957
6.70
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944
5.00
The Far Country
1954
6.90
Written on the Wind
1956
6.90
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
5.00
A Gunfight
1971
5.80
The Rookies
1972
6.00
The Inner Circle
1946
5.20
Bandits of the Badlands
1945
3.50
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973
5.70
Santee
1973
5.30
Gun the Man Down
1956
6.40
Hot Summer Night
1957
5.60
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
6.40
The Lone Ranger
1956
6.10
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
6.00
The Gun Hawk
1963
4.20
Homicide for Three
1948
5.00
War Paint
1953
5.50
Best of the Badmen
1951
6.50
San Quentin
1937
6.50
Canyon River
1956
6.40
San Antonio Kid
1944
0.00
Cattle Town
1952
6.70
Return to Warbow
1958
5.80
Hellgate
1952
6.70
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
8.00
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960
2.00
Code of the Prairie
1944
0.00
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
0.00
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948
6.00
Overland Telegraph
1951
6.70
Cow Country
1953
4.40
From Here to Eternity
1953
7.29
Smoke Signal
1955
6.50
Smoky
1966
5.50
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
5.50
That Man's Here Again
1937
5.00
Star Reporter
1939
3.90
Vigilantes of Dodge City
1944
0.00
Corpus Christi Bandits
1945
0.00
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
6.00
Road Agent
1952
5.50
Frontier Outpost
1950
0.00
They Call It Murder
1971
6.50
The Magnificent Seven
1960
7.51
Two Guns and a Badge
1954
0.00
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
5.00
Sierra Sue
1941
0.00
The Desperate Mission
1969
4.50
The Long Rope
1961
5.80
Days of Heaven
1978
7.50
Saddle Legion
1951
6.30
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
5.50
Bordertown Trail
1944
0.00
Call of the Rockies
1944
6.00
Gunplay
1951
6.20
Pistol Harvest
1951
5.20
Hot Lead
1951
6.30
Cyclone Fury
1951
5.00
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
6.36
In Old Missouri
1940
5.50
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941
5.70
Strange Lady in Town
1955
4.50
Wyoming Roundup
1952
6.00
In Old Monterey
1939
5.30
Grand Ole Opry
1940
7.00
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
2.50
Web of Danger
1947
4.80
Blackmail
1947
4.00
Traffic in Crime
1946
6.00
The Catman of Paris
1946
5.42
Passkey to Danger
1946
0.00
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
5.00
Faces in the Fog
1944
3.00
The Fighting Seabees
1944
6.20
The Wyoming Bandit
1949
4.00
Coyote Canyon
1949
0.00
Across the Badlands
1950
0.00
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
0.00
The Desert Hawk
1950
5.10
Fargo
1952
6.50
The Maverick
1952
0.00
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
6.00
Law of the Canyon
1947
0.00
Sheriff of Sundown
1944
0.00
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
1945
0.00
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
4.20
Trail of Kit Carson
1945
0.00
Carson City Raiders
1948
0.00
The Rawhide Years
1956
5.50
The Lone Gun
1954
5.40
Wichita
1955
6.30
Shotgun
1955
5.20
Raw Edge
1956
5.80
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
5.70
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
6.00
Whispering Footsteps
1943
5.30
The Sweet Creek County War
1979
0.00
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
6.00
Badman's Territory
1946
5.80
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
6.30
White Tie and Tails
1946
7.00
Shock Treatment
1964
6.71
Laramie
1949
6.50
Stripes
1981
6.60
Wild and Wooly
1978
4.00
Vengeance Valley
1951
5.30
Mule Train
1950
5.00
The Blonde Bandit
1949
5.80