Robert J. Wilke
Birthday: 1914-05-18
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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. -
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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High Noon
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Spartacus
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Flaming Fury
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Night Passage
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Tony Rome
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The Las Vegas Story
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Hitchhike to Happiness
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The Magnificent Stranger
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Man of the West
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Arrowhead
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Backlash
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The Tarnished Angels
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Cowboy and the Senorita
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The Far Country
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Written on the Wind
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The Ghost Goes Wild
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A Gunfight
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The Rookies
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The Inner Circle
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Bandits of the Badlands
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Santee
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
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Gun the Man Down
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Hot Summer Night
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The Lone Ranger
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The Gun Hawk
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Homicide for Three
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War Paint
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Best of the Badmen
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San Quentin
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Canyon River
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San Antonio Kid
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Cattle Town
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Return to Warbow
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The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
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The Slowest Gun in the West
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Code of the Prairie
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Hidden Valley Outlaws
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Daredevils of the Clouds
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Overland Telegraph
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Cow Country
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From Here to Eternity
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Smoke Signal
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Vigilantes of Dodge City
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Corpus Christi Bandits
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Sheriff of Cimarron
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Santa Fe Saddlemates
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The Desperate Mission
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The Long Rope
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Bordertown Trail
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Hot Lead
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Gunplay
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Pistol Harvest
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Cyclone Fury
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Strange Lady in Town
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In Old Monterey
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Grand Ole Opry
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Web of Danger
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Blackmail
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Twilight on the Rio Grande
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The Catman of Paris
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Traffic in Crime
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Passkey to Danger
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Earl Carroll Vanities
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Faces in the Fog
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The Fighting Seabees
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The Wyoming Bandit
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Coyote Canyon
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Across the Badlands
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprit...
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The Desert Hawk
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Fargo
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The Maverick
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders....
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The Hallelujah Trail
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Law of the Canyon
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Sheriff of Sundown
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron ...
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Rough Riders of Cheyenne
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Sunset in El Dorado
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother...
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Trail of Kit Carson
Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in t...
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Carson City Raiders
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wan...
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The Rawhide Years
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The Lone Gun
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. ...
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Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans...
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Shotgun
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory'...
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Raw Edge
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother....
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a...
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Rendezvous with Annie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to ...
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Whispering Footsteps
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer....
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The Sweet Creek County War
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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Badman's Territory
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Buck Privates Come Home
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White Tie and Tails
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Shock Treatment
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stole...
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Laramie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meet...
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Stripes
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Wild and Wooly
A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in...
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Vengeance Valley
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Mule Train
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Lone Texas Ranger
"Iron Mike" Haines (Tom Chatterton), a crooked sheriff, and "Hands" Weber (Roy Barcroft), the town b...
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