Robert Emmett Keane
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Robert Emmett Keane.
Born: March 3, 1883
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Undercover Maisie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
The Devil and Miss Jones
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
Outside These Walls
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Born to Be Wild
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Man Of The People
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Mad Love
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
Fifth Avenue Girl
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Uncertain Glory
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
Filmography
as Judge George Walters
as Mr. Reynolds
as Opera Board Member (uncredited)
as Charles Stevens
as Lavery (uncredited)
as Mr. J. Collins (uncredited)
as Captain Blake
as Munsell
as John Blanford
as Sim Sturgis
as Architect (uncredited)
as Coroner
as Dr. Soams
as Erskine Doubleday
as Martin Masters, Newspaper editor
as Seton
as Sam Harris
as Herman Rinsel - the Druggist
as Russ Nelson
as Holbrook
as Jordon Weatherbee, Banker
as Lawyer Felix Crowe
as Mr. Kurlinger (uncredited)
as Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd
as Ed Harris (Uncredited)
as The Chestnut's Owner (uncredited)
as Professor Dixon
as Wooster J. Dalrymple
as Doctor Treating O'Neill (uncredited)
as Max (Uncredited)
as Charles Frobay
as Ed Blake
as Ed Kennedy (uncredited)
as Alfred Wyans (as Robert E. Keane)
as Prof. Wisner
as Austin Vemmering (uncredited)
as Lawson
as District Attorney
as Police Psychiatrist (Uncredited)
as Attorney
as Joe Latham
as Yokes
as Charles 'Charlie' McNear (Uncredited)
as Homer Hardacre
as Attorney Scatterby
as Lawyer
as Wally Fairchild (uncredited)
as Henry Corcoran
as Alarm Clock Salesman
as Mr. Conrad
as Parker
as Coupe Driver (uncredited)
as Team Co-Owner (uncredited)
as Alfred Dunning
as Nat Burton
as Judge John Osborne (uncredited)
as Mr. Burt Reiner
as Defense Attorney
as Casket-Selling Mortician
as Connors
as Mr. Travers (uncredited)
as Tom Higgins
as Burton
as Rudy (uncredited)
as Larry Kincaid
as Officer Willets
as Manager
as Dr. Walton (uncredited)
as Gentleman Jack
as Oilman in New York (uncredited)
as Leo Sloan
as Peter Van Wyck
as Jeweler
as Gossip in Diner (uncredited)
as Chick Lester
as Editor
as Ed Harvey
as Drunken Agitator
as Max Stanton
as Kane
as Editor (uncredited)
as Booking Agent (uncredited)
as Seal Expert (uncredited)
as Fothering
as Mr. Wilston (uncredited)
as Judge Butler, Second Trial
as Fred Barrett
as Henchman Careira
as Harrison - Passport Official (uncredited)
as Sam Fulton
as Commissioner Hugh Thomas
as Roger Wilson (uncredited)
as Random
as Mr. Barklett the Lawyer (uncredited)
as Foreign Editor (uncredited)
as Burton
as Mr. Page
as Simon Kelly
as Johnson, Furniture Store Owner
as City Editor (uncredited)
as Bill Watkins - Criminologist (uncredited)
as J. Stearns Davis
as Logan Walters
as Speaker (uncredited)
as Editor
as Joseph B. Murphy
as Charlie Collins
as Mister Bridges, a Lawyer
as Nick
as City Editor
as Professor Kimberly
as Mr. Aldrich
as Fields
as Jones, the Jeweler
as Cillani
as Announcer (uncredited)
as Raoul (Uncredited)
as Man On Train (uncredited)
as Phelps
as Joe
as Don Miguel
as Frank