Robert J. Wilke

Acting

Robert J. Wilke

Born 1914-05-18 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 124 films

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…

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Filmography

124 films
Stripes poster

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfr…

Stripes

★ 6.6 1981

Days of Heaven poster

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle…

Days of Heaven

★ 7.5 1978

Wild and Wooly poster

A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet i…

Wild and Wooly

★ 7.0 1978

Santee poster

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an…

Santee

★ 5.5 1973

The Rookies poster

Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of li…

The Rookies

★ 7.0 1972

A Gunfight poster

Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray come…

A Gunfight

★ 5.9 1971