Philip Ober
Born: 1902-03-23 in Fort Payne, Alabama, USA
Died: 1982-09-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
Philip Nott Ober (March 23, 1902 – September 13, 1982) was an American screen and stage actor. He later retired from acting to work as a diplomat. Ober is best remembered for his roles in the films From Here to Eternity (1953) and North by Northwest (1959). His other notable credits include The Magnificent Yankee (1950), Broken Lance (1954), Torpedo Run (1958) and The Ugly American (1963).
Filmography
1968
- Assignment to Kill as Bohlen
1966
- Family Affair
- The Monkees as Mr. Weatherwax
- The Ghost and Mr. Chicken as Nicholas Simmons
- The Tammy Grimes Show
1965
- I Dream of Jeannie as General Stone
- Honey West as J. J. Vanderhyden
- The Adventures of Gallegher as Hade
1964
- The Munsters
- Profiles in Courage as Anderson
- The Brass Bottle as William J. Beevor
1963
- Grindl
- Channing as Partridge
- The Ugly American as Ambassador Sears
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Colonel Hoey
- Sam Benedict
- The Eleventh Hour
1961
- Hazel as Mr. Sudley
- Cain's Hundred as Herman Hausner
- Ripcord as Dr. Ladd
- The Investigators as Charley Brent
- Go Naked in the World as Josh Kebner
1960
- Thriller as Elmer Hooper
- Checkmate as Marshall Winslow
- Bringing Up Buddy
- Elmer Gantry as Reverend Planck
- The Facts of Life as Doc Mason
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Grant Holloway
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Mr. Henderson
- Mr. Lucky
- Startime as Malcolm Tawley
- North by Northwest as Lester Townsend
- The Mating Game as Wendell Burnshaw
- Beloved Infidel as John Wheeler
1958
- Bat Masterson as General Silas Guild
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Torpedo Run as Adm. Samuel Setton
- Ten North Frederick as Lloyd Williams
- The High Cost of Loving as Herb Zorn
1957
- Perry Mason as Ralph Davis
- Sugarfoot as General Humphrey
- M Squad as George Brayden
- Tammy and the Bachelor as Alfred Bissle
- Escapade in Japan as Lt. Col. Hargrave
1956
- On Trial as Andrews
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Wilton Stark
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
1954
- Broken Lance as Van Cleve
- About Mrs. Leslie as Mort Finley
1953
- City Detective
- The Danny Thomas Show as Hal Raskin
- Letter to Loretta as Tom
- From Here to Eternity as Capt. Dana Holmes
- General Electric Theater as Mr. Goodwin
- The Clown as Ralph Z. Henderson
- Come Back, Little Sheba as Ed Anderson
- The Girls of Pleasure Island as Col. Reade
- Scandal at Scourie as B. G. Belney
1952
- Washington Story as Gilbert Nunnally
1951
- I Love Lucy as Arnold (uncredited)
- The Unknown Man as Wayne Kellwin
1950
- Lux Video Theatre
- The Secret Fury as Gregory Kent
- Never a Dull Moment as Jed
- The Magnificent Yankee as Owen Wister / Narrator (voice)
1939
- The Glass Case as Walter Drummond
1938
1934
- Chloe, Love Is Calling You as Jim