
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