Robert J. Wilke

Robert J. Wilke

Birthday: 1914-05-18

Deathday: 1989-03-28

Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Also known as: Bob Wilke, Robert Wilke, Robert Joseph Wilke

imdb_id: nm0929057

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. -

Played in movies:

Never Steal Anything Small

Score: 8.0

High Noon

Score: 7.7

Spartacus

Score: 7.5

The Magnificent Seven

Score: 7.5

Days of Heaven

Score: 7.5

From Here to Eternity

Score: 7.3

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Score: 7.0

White Tie and Tails

Score: 7.0

Grand Ole Opry

Score: 7.0

Written on the Wind

Score: 7.0

The Far Country

Score: 6.9

The Tarnished Angels

Score: 6.7

Shock Treatment

Score: 6.7

Overland Telegraph

Score: 6.7

Hellgate

Score: 6.7

Cattle Town

Score: 6.7

The Magnificent Stranger

Score: 6.7

Smoke Signal

Score: 6.6

Man of the West

Score: 6.6

Stripes

Score: 6.6

Laramie

Score: 6.5

Fargo

Score: 6.5

San Quentin

Score: 6.5

Best of the Badmen

Score: 6.5

The Cheyenne Social Club

Score: 6.4

Canyon River

Score: 6.4

Fate Is the Hunter

Score: 6.4

Gun the Man Down

Score: 6.4

Backlash

Score: 6.4

Night Passage

Score: 6.4

Tony Rome

Score: 6.4

Wichita

Score: 6.3

Hot Lead

Score: 6.3

Saddle Legion

Score: 6.3

Buck Privates Come Home

Score: 6.3

The Fighting Seabees

Score: 6.2

Gunplay

Score: 6.2

The Lone Ranger

Score: 6.1

The Hallelujah Trail

Score: 6.1

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Score: 6.0

Rendezvous with Annie

Score: 6.0

Raw Edge

Score: 6.0

Traffic in Crime

Score: 6.0

Wyoming Roundup

Score: 6.0

Call of the Rockies

Score: 6.0

Sheriff of Cimarron

Score: 6.0

Daredevils of the Clouds

Score: 6.0

The Fighting Devil Dogs

Score: 6.0

The Rookies

Score: 6.0

Arrowhead

Score: 5.9

The Las Vegas Story

Score: 5.8

The Blonde Bandit

Score: 5.8

The Long Rope

Score: 5.8

Return to Warbow

Score: 5.8

A Gunfight

Score: 5.8

Badman's Territory

Score: 5.7

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Score: 5.7

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Score: 5.7

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Score: 5.7

Hot Summer Night

Score: 5.6

The Rawhide Years

Score: 5.5

In Old Missouri

Score: 5.5

Adventures of Red Ryder

Score: 5.5

Road Agent

Score: 5.5

Smoky

Score: 5.5

War Paint

Score: 5.5

The Catman of Paris

Score: 5.4

The Lone Gun

Score: 5.4

They Call It Murder

Score: 5.4

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

Score: 5.4

Santee

Score: 5.4

Vengeance Valley

Score: 5.3

Whispering Footsteps

Score: 5.3

In Old Monterey

Score: 5.3

Shotgun

Score: 5.3

Pistol Harvest

Score: 5.2

The Inner Circle

Score: 5.2

The Desert Hawk

Score: 5.1

Mule Train

Score: 5.0

The Sweet Creek County War

Score: 5.0

Earl Carroll Vanities

Score: 5.0

Cyclone Fury

Score: 5.0

Santa Fe Saddlemates

Score: 5.0

That Man's Here Again

Score: 5.0

Homicide for Three

Score: 5.0

The Ghost Goes Wild

Score: 5.0

Hitchhike to Happiness

Score: 5.0

Web of Danger

Score: 4.8

The Desperate Mission

Score: 4.6

Strange Lady in Town

Score: 4.5

Cow Country

Score: 4.4

The Gun Hawk

Score: 4.4

Sunset in El Dorado

Score: 4.2

Wild and Wooly

Score: 4.0

The Wyoming Bandit

Score: 4.0

Blackmail

Score: 4.0

Daredevils of the Red Circle

Score: 4.0

Star Reporter

Score: 3.9

Cowboy and the Senorita

Score: 3.7

Bandits of the Badlands

Score: 3.5

Faces in the Fog

Score: 3.0

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Score: 2.1

The Slowest Gun in the West

Score: 2.0

Carson City Raiders

Score: 0.0

Trail of Kit Carson

Score: 0.0

Rough Riders of Cheyenne

Score: 0.0

Sheriff of Sundown

Score: 0.0

Law of the Canyon

Score: 0.0

The Maverick

Score: 0.0

Outcasts of Black Mesa

Score: 0.0

Across the Badlands

Score: 0.0

Coyote Canyon

Score: 0.0

Passkey to Danger

Score: 0.0

Bordertown Trail

Score: 0.0

Sierra Sue

Score: 0.0

Two Guns and a Badge

Score: 0.0

Frontier Outpost

Score: 0.0

Corpus Christi Bandits

Score: 0.0

Vigilantes of Dodge City

Score: 0.0

Hidden Valley Outlaws

Score: 0.0

Code of the Prairie

Score: 0.0

San Antonio Kid

Score: 0.0

Flaming Fury

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

The Untouchables

Score: 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

The Wild Wild West

Score: 7.5

Zorro

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Starsky & Hutch

Score: 7.2

The Abbott and Costello Show

Score: 7.2

The Third Man

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

Rawhide

Score: 7.1

The Thin Man

Score: 7.1

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Rifleman

Score: 7.0

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

How the West Was Won

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Westerner

Score: 6.8

Dallas

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Maverick

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.7

The Lone Ranger

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.5

Screen Director's Playhouse

Score: 6.5

My Three Sons

Score: 6.4

Laramie

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

Run, Joe, Run

Score: 6.3

Tombstone Territory

Score: 6.3

Tombstone Territory

Score: 6.3

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

The Deputy

Score: 6.2

Riverboat

Score: 6.2

Riverboat

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Law of the Plainsman

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

The Cisco Kid

Score: 5.9

The Cisco Kid

Score: 5.9

The Cisco Kid

Score: 5.9

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

The Dakotas

Score: 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

The Monroes

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Lawman

Score: 5.6

Lawman

Score: 5.6

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Outcasts

Score: 5.3

Bronco

Score: 5.2

The Walter Winchell File

Score: 5.0

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Score: 5.0

Cimarron Strip

Score: 5.0

The Greatest Show on Earth

Score: 5.0

Bourbon Street Beat

Score: 5.0

The Legend of Jesse James

Score: 4.8

Lancer

Score: 4.7

The Gene Autry Show

Score: 4.2

The Gene Autry Show

Score: 4.2

The Gene Autry Show

Score: 4.2

The Gene Autry Show

Score: 4.2

Wichita Town

Score: 4.2

Boston Blackie

Score: 4.0

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Target: The Corruptors!

Score: 3.5

The Beachcomber

Score: 0.0

Rango

Score: 0.0

The Beachcomber

Score: 0.0