Highest rated movie: Spartacus (1960)
Lowest rated movie: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
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Looking for reviews of Robert J. Wilke movies? Cinafilm has a total of 4,853 reviews across 41 movies.
Movies starring Robert J. Wilke have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Spartacus - released in 1960 - is Robert J. Wilke's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 573 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Robert J. Wilke is The Boy Who Cried Werewolf - released in 1973 - with a score of 41% based on 4 reviews.
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.
Robert J. Wilke has acted in films with Chuck Roberson, Buddy Roosevelt, Carleton Young and Chuck Hamilton.
Robert J. Wilke has worked with these film directors: John Sturges, John English, William Witney and Douglas Sirk.
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