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name: "Robert Francis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-francis-64113"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 February 1930"
died: "31 July 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:41:59.871626+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Robert Francis

Actor. Born 26 February 1930 in Glendale, California, USA. Died 31 July 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 February 1930, Glendale, California, USA
- **Died:** 31 July 1955
- **Also known as:** Robert Charles Francis
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Francis_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453761, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290295/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64113

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Caine Mutiny*](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md) (76)

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## Biography

Robert Francis (born Robert Charles Francis) was an American actor. He was born on 26 February 1930 in Glendale, California, and died on 31 July 1955 in Burbank, California, aged 25, in the crash of a small aircraft he was piloting.

Francis appeared in four Hollywood films, all with military themes. His screen debut and most prominent role was as Ensign Willis Seward 'Willie' Keith in *The Caine Mutiny* (1954). His other credits were *They Rode West* (1954), *The Bamboo Prison* (1954) and *The Long Gray Line* (1955).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Caine Mutiny* (1954), Fi1m 76, as Ens. Willis Seward 'Willie' Keith — [page](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Long Gray Line* (1955), as James Sundstrom Jr.
- *They Rode West* (1954), as Dr. Allen Seward
- *The Caine Mutiny* (1954), as Ens. Willis Seward 'Willie' Keith — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-caine-mutiny.md)
- *The Bamboo Prison* (1954), as MSgt. John A. Rand

## Gallery

- ![Robert Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1237793/gallery-e898e141a89d.jpg) Robert Francis — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1237793/gallery-7c2fd63b3a0d.jpg) Robert Francis — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1237793/gallery-1de3dfe71793.jpg) Robert Francis — Image via TMDB

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