Job Film and television actor
Years active 1936-1981
Top Roles Jim Pierce, Confederate Soldier Ordering Cease Fire, Officer of the Day, Ponch, First Mate of the Nautilus
Top GenresWestern, Action, Drama, Adventure, Romance, Crime
Top TopicsBook-Based, Spies, World War II
Top Collaborators (Director), , (Producer), (Producer)
Shares birthday with Frank Capra, Richard Brooks, Louis F. Edelman  see more..

Robert J. Wilke Overview:

Character actor, Robert J. Wilke, was born Robert Joseph Wilke on May 18, 1914 in Cincinnati, OH. Wilke died at the age of 74 on Mar 28, 1989 in Los Angeles, CA .

MINI BIO:

Tall, broad-shouldered, light-haired, agile American actor with curling lips, icy eyes, and taut features. A former stuntman, Wilke looked ill-at-ease in a suit and, often seen in serials, was almost always cast as western villains. He made dozens of these minor "oaters" and almost 200 films, most of them in the period 1944-1958, before proving, towards the end of his career, that he could handle bona-fide character roles as well. He also made the occasional foray into horror, most notably as The Catman of Paris. Also billed variously as Robert Wilkie, Bob Wilkie, Robert Wilke and Bob Wilke.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Robert J. Wilke Quotes:

Maddox: Tell me, in your wide circle of acquaintances, would there be any rustlers?
Joe Graycoe: Some of my best friends!


Old-Timer: If I was twenty years younger...!
Joe Graycoe: You won't live to be twenty seconds older if you keep running off at the mouth!


Jeff Welker: You're going to talk and I'm going to listen.


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Once a lifeguard in a Miami hotel and a high-diver at Chicago's World Fair in 1933-34.

Father, with Patricia Wilke, of a son.

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