🎬Robert J. Wilke

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Stripes (1981)	Gen. Barnicke		7.2
2	Days of Heaven (1978)	The Farm Foreman		6.8
3	Tony Rome (1967)	Ralph Turpin	-	-
4	The Hallelujah Trail (1965)	Chief Five Barrels		6
5	Spartacus (1960)	Guard captain		7.3
6	The Magnificent Seven (1960)	Wallace		7.3
7	Man of the West (1958)	Ponch	-	-
8	The Tarnished Angels (1957)	Hank		7
9	Written on the Wind (1956)	Dan Willis		7.5
10	Wichita (1955)	Ben Thompson		5
11	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)	First Mate of the Nautilus		7.6
12	The Far Country (1954)	Madden		6
13	From Here to Eternity (1953)	Sgt. Henderson (uncredited)		6.1
14	High Noon (1952)	Jim Pierce		7.3
15	Fargo (1952)	Link - Henchman	-	-
16	The Las Vegas Story (1952)	Clayton (as Robert Wilke)		6
17	Buck Privates Come Home (1947)	GI Buddy (uncredited)		6
18	Blackmail (1947)	Policeman		5
19	The Catman of Paris (1946)	The Catman (uncredited)	-	-
20	Whispering Footsteps (1943)	Bank Customer		4