Walter Abel
Born: 1898-06-05 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1987-03-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Walter Abel (June 6, 1898 – March 26, 1987) was an American stage and film character actor. His eyes were brown and his (adult) height was five foot ten inches. Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Christine (née Becker) and Richard Michael Abel. Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 and joined a touring company. He made his Broadway debut in Forbidden in 1919. His many theatre credits include As You Like It, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merrily We Roll Along, and Trelawny of the 'Wells'. On the stage, he appeared in Channing Pollock's 1926 production of The Enemy together with Fay Bainter. Abel was married to concert harpist Marietta Bitter. He died of a myocardial infarction in Essex, Connecticut. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Abel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1985
- Grace Quigley as Homer Morrison
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
1973
- The Man Without a Country as Col. A.B. Morgan
1972
- Night of the Dark Full Moon as Mayor Adams
1965
- Mirage as Charles Stewart Calvin
- The Human Duplicators as Dr. Munson
- Israel: The Story of the Jewish People as Narrator
1964
- Quick, Let's Get Married as Thief
1961
- The Defenders as Ben Burke
1958
- Handle with Care as Prof. Roger Bowden
1957
- Bernardine as Mr. Beaumont
- Raintree County as T.D. Shawnessy
1956
- The Steel Jungle as Warden Bill Keller
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as Mr. Wayde
- Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as McKinley
- The Indian Fighter as Captain Trask
- Playwrights '56
- Hollywood Preview as Self
1954
- Climax! as Stewart
- Night People as Maj. R.A. Foster
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #4
1953
- Island in the Sky as Col. Fuller
- So This Is Love as Col. James Moore
1951
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Harry Archer
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Joe Holmby
1948
- Studio One as Juror #4
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Dream Girl as George Allerton
- That Lady in Ermine as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
- Picture in Your Mind as Narrator
1947
- 13 Rue Madeleine as Charles Gibson
- Variety Girl as Walter Abel (uncredited)
- The Fabulous Joe as Milo Terkel
1946
- The Kid from Brooklyn as Gabby Sloan
1945
- The Affairs of Susan as Richard Aiken
- Duffy's Tavern as Director
- Kiss and Tell as Harry Archer
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as George Trellis
- An American Romance as Howard Clinton
- The Hitler Gang as Narrator (voice)
- Follow the Boys as Walter Abel (uncredited)
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Chaplain
- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator
- Fired Wife as Chris McClelland
1942
- Wake Island as Cmdr. Roberts
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as Prof. Thornton
- Holiday Inn as Danny Reed
- Star Spangled Rhythm as B.G. DeSoto
1941
- Glamour Boy as Anthony J. Colder
- Skylark as George Gore
- Hold Back the Dawn as Inspector Hammock
1940
- Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Elliott Thomas
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Judge
- Arise, My Love as Phillips
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Dr. George Benedict
1939
- Miracle on Main Street as Jim Foreman
- King of the Turf as Robert Barnes
- First Offenders as Gregory Stone
1938
- Men with Wings as Nick Ranson
- Law of the Underworld as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
- Racket Busters as Hugh Allison
1937
- Green Light as John Stafford
- Wise Girl as Karl
- Portia on Trial as Dan Foster
1936
- Second Wife as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.
- Fury as District Attorney
- Two in the Dark as Ford Adams
- The Lady Consents as Stanley Ashton
- We Went to College as Phil Talbot
- The Witness Chair as James Trent
1935
- The Three Musketeers as D'Artagnan
1930
- Liliom as Carpenter
1920
- The North Wind's Malice as Tom