Robert J. Wilke
Acting
1914-05-18 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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. -
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Movie
Stripes
1981 · Movie
The Sweet Creek County War
1979 · Movie
Days of Heaven
1978 · Movie
Dallas
1978 · Series
Wild and Wooly
1978 · Movie
How the West Was Won
1977 · Series
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
Run, Joe, Run
1974 · Series
Santee
1973 · Movie
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973 · Movie
Kung Fu
1972 · Series
The Rookies
1972 · Movie
They Call It Murder
1971 · Movie
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1971 · Movie
A Gunfight
1971 · Movie
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 · Movie
The Desperate Mission
1969 · Movie
Lancer
1968 · Series
The Outcasts
1968 · Series
Tony Rome
1967 · Movie
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Series
Cimarron Strip
1967 · Series
Rango
1967 · Series
Tarzan
1966 · Series
The Monroes
1966 · Series
The Magnificent Stranger
1966 · Movie
Smoky
1966 · Movie
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Series
The Legend of Jesse James
1965 · Series
The Hallelujah Trail
1965 · Movie
Fate Is the Hunter
1964 · Movie
Daniel Boone
1964 · Series
Shock Treatment
1964 · Movie
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 · Series
The Gun Hawk
1963 · Movie
The Dakotas
1963 · Series
The Lucy Show
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
Sam Benedict
1962 · Series
The Beachcomber
1962 · Series
Target: The Corruptors!
1961 · Series
The Long Rope
1961 · Movie
Spartacus
1960 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Movie
Stagecoach West
1960 · Series
The Westerner
1960 · Series
My Three Sons
1960 · Series
Outlaws
1960 · Series
The Tall Man
1960 · Series
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960 · Movie
The Untouchables
1959 · Series
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Series
Bourbon Street Beat
1959 · Series
The Third Man
1959 · Series
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · Series
Wichita Town
1959 · Series
Laramie
1959 · Series
Riverboat
1959 · Series
Bonanza
1959 · Series
The Deputy
1959 · Series
Never Steal Anything Small
1959 · Movie
Rawhide
1959 · Series
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Series
Bat Masterson
1958 · Series
Lawman
1958 · Series
Man of the West
1958 · Movie
The Rifleman
1958 · Series
The Texan
1958 · Series
Bronco
1958 · Series
Peter Gunn
1958 · Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Series
Return to Warbow
1958 · Movie
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · Movie
Tombstone Territory
1957 · Series
Zorro
1957 · Series
The Walter Winchell File
1957 · Series
Maverick
1957 · Series
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
The Thin Man
1957 · Series
Wagon Train
1957 · Series
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
Night Passage
1957 · Movie
Hot Summer Night
1957 · Movie
Gun the Man Down
1956 · Movie
Written on the Wind
1956 · Movie
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 · Series
Canyon River
1956 · Movie
The Rawhide Years
1956 · Movie
Raw Edge
1956 · Movie
Backlash
1956 · Movie
The Lone Ranger
1956 · Movie
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Series
Cheyenne
1955 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
Wichita
1955 · Movie
Shotgun
1955 · Movie
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Movie
Smoke Signal
1955 · Movie
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
Lassie
1954 · Series
Two Guns and a Badge
1954 · Movie
The Lone Gun
1954 · Movie
The Far Country
1954 · Movie
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Movie
War Paint
1953 · Movie
Arrowhead
1953 · Movie
Cow Country
1953 · Movie
The Maverick
1952 · Movie
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · Series
Wyoming Roundup
1952 · Movie
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Series
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Series
Adventures of Superman
1952 · Series
Fargo
1952 · Movie
Cattle Town
1952 · Movie
Hellgate
1952 · Movie
High Noon
1952 · Movie
Road Agent
1952 · Movie
The Las Vegas Story
1952 · Movie
Overland Telegraph
1951 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Hot Lead
1951 · Movie
Boston Blackie
1951 · Series
Pistol Harvest
1951 · Movie
Cyclone Fury
1951 · Movie
Best of the Badmen
1951 · Movie
Gunplay
1951 · Movie
Saddle Legion
1951 · Movie
Vengeance Valley
1951 · Movie
Frontier Outpost
1950 · Movie
Across the Badlands
1950 · Movie
The Cisco Kid
1950 · Series
The Desert Hawk
1950 · Movie
The Gene Autry Show
1950 · Series
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950 · Movie
Mule Train
1950 · Movie
The Blonde Bandit
1949 · Movie
Coyote Canyon
1949 · Movie
The Lone Ranger
1949 · Series
Flaming Fury
1949 · Movie
The Wyoming Bandit
1949 · Movie
Laramie
1949 · Movie
Homicide for Three
1948 · Movie
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948 · Movie
Carson City Raiders
1948 · Movie
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947 · Movie
Blackmail
1947 · Movie
Web of Danger
1947 · Movie
Law of the Canyon
1947 · Movie
Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · Movie
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947 · Movie
White Tie and Tails
1946 · Movie
The Inner Circle
1946 · Movie
Rendezvous with Annie
1946 · Movie
Traffic in Crime
1946 · Movie
Passkey to Danger
1946 · Movie
Badman's Territory
1946 · Movie
The Catman of Paris
1946 · Movie
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
1945 · Movie
Sunset in El Dorado
1945 · Movie
Bandits of the Badlands
1945 · Movie
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945 · Movie
Trail of Kit Carson
1945 · Movie
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945 · Movie
Lone Texas Ranger
1945 · Movie
Corpus Christi Bandits
1945 · Movie
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945 · Movie
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945 · Movie
Faces in the Fog
1944 · Movie
Vigilantes of Dodge City
1944 · Movie
Sheriff of Sundown
1944 · Movie
Code of the Prairie
1944 · Movie
San Antonio Kid
1944 · Movie
Bordertown Trail
1944 · Movie
Call of the Rockies
1944 · Movie
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944 · Movie
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944 · Movie
The Fighting Seabees
1944 · Movie
Whispering Footsteps
1943 · Movie
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941 · Movie
Sierra Sue
1941 · Movie
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940 · Movie
Grand Ole Opry
1940 · Movie
In Old Missouri
1940 · Movie
In Old Monterey
1939 · Movie
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939 · Movie
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939 · Movie
Star Reporter
1939 · Movie
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938 · Movie
San Quentin
1937 · Movie
That Man's Here Again
1937 · Movie