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. -
124 movies · 70 shows
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987·6.5
Stripes
1981·6.6
The Sweet Creek County War
1979·6.5
Days of Heaven
1978·7.5
Wild and Wooly
1978·7.0
Santee
1973·5.5
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973·5.8
The Rookies
1972·7.0
They Call It Murder
1971·6.3
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1971·5.9
A Gunfight
1971·5.8
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970·6.4
The Desperate Mission
1969·4.6
Tony Rome
1967·6.4
The Magnificent Stranger
1966·7.0
Smoky
1966·6.7
The Hallelujah Trail
1965·6.1
Fate Is the Hunter
1964·6.5
Shock Treatment
1964·6.8
The Gun Hawk
1963·5.1
The Long Rope
1961·6.2
Spartacus
1960·7.5
The Magnificent Seven
1960·7.5
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960·4.5
Never Steal Anything Small
1959·8.2
Man of the West
1958·6.6
Return to Warbow
1958·5.9
The Tarnished Angels
1957·6.8
Night Passage
1957·6.5
Hot Summer Night
1957·5.7
Gun the Man Down
1956·6.5
Written on the Wind
1956·7.0
Canyon River
1956·6.5
The Rawhide Years
1956·5.6
Raw Edge
1956·6.3
Backlash
1956·6.5
The Lone Ranger
1956·6.2
Wichita
1955·6.3
Shotgun
1955·5.6
Strange Lady in Town
1955·4.9
Smoke Signal
1955·6.9
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954·7.1
Two Guns and a Badge
1954·10.0
The Lone Gun
1954·5.6
The Far Country
1954·6.9
War Paint
1953·5.6
From Here to Eternity
1953·7.3
Arrowhead
1953·6.1
Cow Country
1953·4.6
The Maverick
1952·9.0
Wyoming Roundup
1952·6.5
Fargo
1952·6.6
Cattle Town
1952·7.6
Hellgate
1952·6.7
High Noon
1952·7.7
Road Agent
1952·7.0
The Las Vegas Story
1952·6.0
Overland Telegraph
1951·7.0
Hot Lead
1951·6.8
Pistol Harvest
1951·6.5
Cyclone Fury
1951·6.0
Best of the Badmen
1951·6.5
Gunplay
1951·7.0
Saddle Legion
1951·6.8
Vengeance Valley
1951·5.4
Frontier Outpost
1950·7.0
Across the Badlands
1950·7.0
The Desert Hawk
1950·5.4
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950·9.0
Mule Train
1950·6.0
The Blonde Bandit
1949·6.2
Coyote Canyon
1949·10.0
Flaming Fury
1949·7.0
The Wyoming Bandit
1949·6.5
Laramie
1949·6.8
Homicide for Three
1948·5.7
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948·6.5
Carson City Raiders
1948·8.0
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947·6.0
Blackmail
1947·4.2
Web of Danger
1947·5.5
Law of the Canyon
1947·7.0
Buck Privates Come Home
1947·6.4
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947·3.1
White Tie and Tails
1946·7.3
The Inner Circle
1946·5.7
Rendezvous with Annie
1946·7.0
Traffic in Crime
1946·6.7
Passkey to Danger
1946·8.0
Badman's Territory
1946·6.3
The Catman of Paris
1946·5.6
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
1945·7.0
Sunset in El Dorado
1945·5.7
Bandits of the Badlands
1945·4.6
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945·7.0
Trail of Kit Carson
1945·7.0
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945·6.7
Lone Texas Ranger
1945·6.7
Corpus Christi Bandits
1945·9.0
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945·5.4
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945·8.0
Faces in the Fog
1944·4.3
Vigilantes of Dodge City
1944·8.0
Sheriff of Sundown
1944·9.0
Code of the Prairie
1944·7.0
San Antonio Kid
1944·8.0
Bordertown Trail
1944·9.0
Call of the Rockies
1944·6.3
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944·5.8
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944·8.0
The Fighting Seabees
1944·6.2
Whispering Footsteps
1943·5.3
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941·6.8
Sierra Sue
1941·7.0
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940·6.7
Grand Ole Opry
1940·7.5
In Old Missouri
1940·6.8
In Old Monterey
1939·6.3
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939·4.8
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939·6.8
Star Reporter
1939·3.9
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938·6.8
San Quentin
1937·6.6
That Man's Here Again
1937·7.0