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. -
194 acting credits
Acting · 194
Perry Mason
1957
Dallas
1978
Bonanza
1959
The Fugitive
1963
Lassie
1954
The Rifleman
1958
Wagon Train
1957
Maverick
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Virginian
1962
My Three Sons
1960
Cheyenne
1955
Four Star Playhouse
1952
The Untouchables
1959
Daniel Boone
1964
The Wild Wild West
1965
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
Starsky & Hutch
1975
The Lucy Show
1962
Zorro
1957
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Lone Ranger
1949
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Bat Masterson
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
Adventures in Paradise
1959
The Texan
1958
Adventures of Superman
1952
Tarzan
1966
Lancer
1968
Laramie
1959
Bronco
1958
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Deputy
1959
The Tall Man
1960
The Gene Autry Show
1950
Outlaws
1960
The Third Man
1959
Riverboat
1959
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
The Cisco Kid
1950
How the West Was Won
1977
Tombstone Territory
1957
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
Law of the Plainsman
1959
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
Stagecoach West
1960
Sam Benedict
1962
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Cimarron Strip
1967
Boston Blackie
1951
The Thin Man
1957
The Magnificent Seven
1960
Spartacus
1960
The Monroes
1966
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
The Dakotas
1963
The Westerner
1960
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Run, Joe, Run
1974
The Outcasts
1968
The Beachcomber
1962
The Walter Winchell File
1957
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
High Noon
1952
Wichita Town
1959
Rango
1967
Stripes
1981
Days of Heaven
1978
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
From Here to Eternity
1953
The Far Country
1954
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Written on the Wind
1956
Man of the West
1958
Tony Rome
1967
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
Kung Fu
1972
Wichita
1955
A Gunfight
1971
Night Passage
1957
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
1971
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
The Lone Ranger
1956
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
The Fighting Seabees
1944
Arrowhead
1953
Backlash
1956
Best of the Badmen
1951
Raw Edge
1956
The Slowest Gun in the West
1960
The Tarnished Angels
1957
Blackmail
1947
The Inner Circle
1946
Badman's Territory
1946
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Hellgate
1952
Smoke Signal
1955
Smoky
1966
Vengeance Valley
1951
Shotgun
1955
Gun the Man Down
1956
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
San Quentin
1937
Trail of Kit Carson
1945
Cow Country
1953
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
Saddle Legion
1951
The Rawhide Years
1956
Santee
1973
The Desperate Mission
1969
Faces in the Fog
1944
Cowboy and the Senorita
1944
The Long Rope
1961
Fargo
1952
Shock Treatment
1964
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973
Adventures of Red Ryder
1940
The Lone Gun
1954
The Las Vegas Story
1952
In Old Monterey
1939
Sunset in El Dorado
1945
Wild and Wooly
1978
Canyon River
1956
The Desert Hawk
1950
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
Frontier Outpost
1950
Gunplay
1951
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
White Tie and Tails
1946
Laramie
1949
War Paint
1953
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
The Rookies
1972
They Call It Murder
1971
Sierra Sue
1941
Cattle Town
1952
Bordertown Trail
1944
Carson City Raiders
1948
Call of the Rockies
1944
Flaming Fury
1949
Wyoming Roundup
1952
The Catman of Paris
1946
Return to Warbow
1958
Overland Telegraph
1951
Web of Danger
1947
Mule Train
1950
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
Pistol Harvest
1951
The Magnificent Stranger
1966
Sheriff of Sundown
1944
Whispering Footsteps
1943
The Wyoming Bandit
1949
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
The Maverick
1952
Hidden Valley Outlaws
1944
Homicide for Three
1948
Hot Lead
1951
The Gun Hawk
1963
Bandits of the Badlands
1945
Cyclone Fury
1951
In Old Missouri
1940
That Man's Here Again
1937
Vigilantes of Dodge City
1944
Hot Summer Night
1957
Corpus Christi Bandits
1945
Grand Ole Opry
1940
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
1945
Santa Fe Saddlemates
1945
Road Agent
1952
The Sweet Creek County War
1979
Across the Badlands
1950
Code of the Prairie
1944
San Antonio Kid
1944
Lone Texas Ranger
1945
Coyote Canyon
1949
Sheriff of Cimarron
1945
Two Guns and a Badge
1954
Law of the Canyon
1947
The Blonde Bandit
1949
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948
Star Reporter
1939
Passkey to Danger
1946
Traffic in Crime
1946