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
- Raintree County as T.D. Shawnessy
- Bernardine as Mr. Beaumont
1956
- The Steel Jungle as Warden Bill Keller
- Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as Mr. Wayde
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as McKinley
- Playwrights '56
- Hollywood Preview as Self
- The Indian Fighter as Captain Trask
1954
- Climax! as Stewart
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #4
- Night People as Maj. R.A. Foster
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
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Studio One as Juror #4
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- That Lady in Ermine as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
- Dream Girl as George Allerton
- Picture in Your Mind as Narrator
1947
- Variety Girl as Walter Abel (uncredited)
- 13 Rue Madeleine as Charles Gibson
- The Fabulous Joe as Milo Terkel
1946
- The Kid from Brooklyn as Gabby Sloan
1945
- Duffy's Tavern as Director
- Kiss and Tell as Harry Archer
- The Affairs of Susan as Richard Aiken
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as George Trellis
- Follow the Boys as Walter Abel (uncredited)
- The Hitler Gang as Narrator (voice)
- An American Romance as Howard Clinton
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Chaplain
- Fired Wife as Chris McClelland
- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator
1942
- Holiday Inn as Danny Reed
- Wake Island as Cmdr. Roberts
- Star Spangled Rhythm as B.G. DeSoto
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as Prof. Thornton
1941
- Hold Back the Dawn as Inspector Hammock
- Glamour Boy as Anthony J. Colder
- Skylark as George Gore
1940
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Judge
- Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Elliott Thomas
- Arise, My Love as Phillips
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Dr. George Benedict
1939
- King of the Turf as Robert Barnes
- Miracle on Main Street as Jim Foreman
- First Offenders as Gregory Stone
1938
- Racket Busters as Hugh Allison
- Law of the Underworld as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
- Men with Wings as Nick Ranson
1937
- Wise Girl as Karl
- Portia on Trial as Dan Foster
- Green Light as John Stafford
1936
- Fury as District Attorney
- The Witness Chair as James Trent
- Two in the Dark as Ford Adams
- The Lady Consents as Stanley Ashton
- We Went to College as Phil Talbot
- Second Wife as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.
1935
- The Three Musketeers as D'Artagnan
1930
- Liliom as Carpenter
1920
- The North Wind's Malice as Tom