Abner Biberman
Born: 1909-04-01 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1977-06-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Ruthless-looking, he was in demand to portray a wide variety of heavies and foreign nationalities during the Golden Years of Hollywood. He later developed a successful career as a prolific director of episodic TV, spanning wide genres from Gilligan’s Island to Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series). Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania.
Filmography
1974
1972
1970
- Matt Lincoln ... (Director)
1969
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors ... (Director)
1968
- Hawaii Five-O ... (Director)
- The Name of the Game ... (Director)
1967
1966
- Too Many Thieves ... (Director)
1965
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Run for Your Life ... (Director)
- The Trials of O'Brien ... (Director)
- Seaway ... (Director)
1964
- Gilligan's Island ... (Director)
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... (Director)
- 12 O'Clock High ... (Director)
1963
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
- The Outer Limits ... (Director)
- Mr. Novak ... (Director)
1962
- The Virginian ... (Director)
- Sam Benedict
- The Eleventh Hour ... (Director)
1961
- Ben Casey ... (Director)
1960
- Outlaws ... (Director)
- The Islanders ... (Director)
- National Velvet ... (Director)
1959
- The Twilight Zone ... (Director)
- Tightrope ... (Director)
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip ... (Director)
- Cimarron City ... (Director)
- Flood Tide ... (Director)
- Mackenzie's Raiders ... (Director)
- Buckskin ... (Director)
1957
- Maverick ... (Director)
- The Night Runner ... (Director)
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ... (Director)
- Gun for a Coward ... (Director)
- The Price of Fear ... (Director)
- Behind the High Wall ... (Director)
1955
- Gunsmoke ... (Director)
- Running Wild ... (Director)
- The Looters ... (Director)
1954
- Knock on Wood as Maurice Papinek
- Elephant Walk as Dr. Pereira
- The Golden Mistress as Carl Dexter
1952
- Viva Zapata! as Captain (uncredited)
1951
- Roaring City as Eddie Paige
1950
- Winchester '73 as Latigo Means
1946
- Strange Conquest as Molugi
1945
- Back to Bataan as Japanese Captain
- Salome, Where She Danced as Dr. Ling
- Betrayal from the East as Yamato
- Captain Kidd as Theodore Blades (uncredited)
1944
- Dragon Seed as Capt. Yasuda (uncredited)
- Two-Man Submarine as Gabe Fabian
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Maita
1943
- Bombardier as Japanese Sergeant
- Submarine Alert as Commander Toyo
- The Leopard Man as Charlie How-Come
- Behind the Rising Sun as Inspector
1942
- Broadway as Trado
- Whispering Ghosts as Mack Wolf
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as La'oa
- King of the Mounties as Adm. Yamata
1941
- Singapore Woman as Singa
- The Monster and the Girl as Gregory - Perry’s Aide (uncredited)
- South of Tahiti as Tahawa
- This Woman Is Mine as Lamazie
- The Gay Vagabond as Ratmar
- Devil Pays Off as Carlos Castillo-Martinez
1940
- Ski Patrol as Russian Field Commander
- South to Karanga as Manek Sen
- His Girl Friday as Louie
- Girl from Havana as Captain Lazear
- The Marines Fly High as Gomez
- South of Pago Pago as Ferro
- Zanzibar as Aba
- Enemy Agent as Baronoff
1939
- Panama Lady as Elisha
- Panama Patrol as Arlie Johnson
- Another Thin Man as 'Dum-Dum'
- Gunga Din as Chota
- The Roaring Twenties as Henchman
- Lady of the Tropics as Wardrobe Buyer
- Each Dawn I Die as Shake Edwards (uncredited)
- The Rains Came as John, the Baptist
- The Magnificent Fraud as Ruiz
- Balalaika as Leo Proplinski
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Attendee at Dance