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...
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...
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Cast Credits
Stripes
as Gen. Barnicke
Days of Heaven
as The Farm Foreman
Wild and Wooly
as Demas Scott
Santee
as Deaks (as Robert Wilke)
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as The Sheriff
The Rookies
as Officer Shaw
They Call It Murder
as Sheriff Rex Brandon
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
as Hugh Fielding
A Gunfight
as Marshal Tom Cater
The Cheyenne Social Club
as Corey Bannister
The Desperate Mission
as Gant
Tony Rome
as Ralph Turpin
The Magnificent Stranger
as Sheriff McVey
Smoky
as Jeff Nicks
The Hallelujah Trail
as Chief Five Barrels
Fate Is the Hunter
as Stillman
Shock Treatment
as Technician Mike Newton (as Robert Wilke)
The Gun Hawk
as Johnny Flanders
The Long Rope
as Ben Matthews
Spartacus
as Guard captain
The Magnificent Seven
as Wallace
The Slowest Gun in the West
as Billy the Kid Blake
Never Steal Anything Small
as Lennie
Man of the West
as Ponch
Return to Warbow
as Red
The Tarnished Angels
as Hank
Night Passage
as Concho
Hot Summer Night
as Tom Ellis (as Robert Wilke)
Gun the Man Down
as Matt Rankin