Acting credits
190
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Robert J. Wilke
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 124Series: 66
TMDB ID: 2096
IMDb ID: nm0929057
Known for: Acting
Born: May 18, 1914
Died: March 28, 1989
Age: 74
Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1937 - 1987
Years active: 51
Average TMDB rating: 6.75
Wikidata: Q45553
Also known as
Bob Wilke • Robert Wilke • Robert Joseph Wilke
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Robert J. Wilke.
6.0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987 Movie
6.6
Stripes
as Gen. Barnicke
1981 Movie
5.0
The Sweet Creek County War
1979 Movie
7.5
Days of Heaven
as The Farm Foreman
1978 Movie
4.0
Wild and Wooly
as Demas Scott
1978 Movie
5.4
Santee
as Deaks (as Robert Wilke
1973 Movie
5.6
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as The Sheriff
1973 Movie
6.0
The Rookies
as Officer Shaw
1972 Movie
5.4
They Call It Murder
as Sheriff Rex Brandon
1971 Movie
5.4
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
as Hugh Fielding
1971 Movie
5.7
A Gunfight
as Marshal Tom Cater
1971 Movie
6.3
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Corey Bannister
1970 Movie
4.0
The Desperate Mission
as Gant
1969 Movie
6.3
Tony Rome
as Ralph Turpin
1967 Movie
6.7
The Magnificent Stranger
as Sheriff McVey
1966 Movie
5.5
Smoky
as Jeff Nicks
1966 Movie
6.1
The Hallelujah Trail
as Chief Five Barrels
1965 Movie
6.6
Fate Is the Hunter
as Stillman
1964 Movie
6.7
Shock Treatment
as Technician Mike Newton (as Robert Wilke)
1964 Movie
4.7
The Gun Hawk
as Johnny Flanders
1963 Movie
5.8
The Long Rope
as Ben Matthews
1961 Movie
7.5
Spartacus
as Guard captain
1960 Movie
7.5
The Magnificent Seven
as Wallace
1960 Movie
2.0
The Slowest Gun in the West
as Billy the Kid Blake
1960 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Robert J. Wilke.
6.8
Dallas
as Tom Owens • 1 eps
1978 Series
6.9
How the West Was Won
as Appleton • 1 eps
1977 Series
7.3
Starsky & Hutch
as Mac Johnson • 1 eps
1975 Series
6.3
Run, Joe, Run
1 eps
1974 Series
7.7
Kung Fu
as Sgt. Bridger • 1 eps
1972 Series
4.7
Lancer
1 eps
1968 Series
5.3
The Outcasts
1 eps
1968 Series
6.2
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Sheriff Dan Butler • 1 eps
1967 Series
5.5
Cimarron Strip
2 eps
1967 Series
Rango
1 eps
1967 Series
6.7
Tarzan
as Spooner • 3 eps
1966 Series
5.7
The Monroes
1 eps
1966 Series
7.6
The Wild Wild West
as Maj. Gen. Titus Ord Baldwin • 1 eps
1965 Series
4.8
The Legend of Jesse James
as Marshal Sam Corbett • 34 eps
1965 Series
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Toff • 1 eps
1964 Series
7.2
The Fugitive
as Johnny • 1 eps
1963 Series
5.7
The Dakotas
1 eps
1963 Series
7.1
The Lucy Show
as Tom Carter • 1 eps
1962 Series
6.4
The Virginian
as Conrad • 1 eps
1962 Series
6.0
Sam Benedict
as Lt. Mike Radich • 2 eps
1962 Series
3.5
Target: The Corruptors!
1 eps
1961 Series
6.0
Stagecoach West
as Taylor Norman • 1 eps
1960 Series
6.8
The Westerner
as Murdo • 1 eps
1960 Series
6.5
My Three Sons
as Danny Donnigan • 1 eps
1960 Series