Walter Abel
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(67 total)
Fury
as District Attorney
Holiday Inn
as Danny Reed
Mirage
as Charles Stewart Calvin
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Mayor Adams
The Indian Fighter
as Captain Trask
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Judge
Island in the Sky
as Col. Fuller
Mr. Skeffington
as George Trellis
Raintree County
as T.D. Shawnessy
Hold Back the Dawn
as Inspector Hammock
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #4
13 Rue Madeleine
as Charles Gibson
Night People
as Maj. R.A. Foster
Wake Island
as Cmdr. Roberts
So Proudly We Hail
as Chaplain
Arise, My Love
as Phillips
The Human Duplicators
as Dr. Munson
That Lady in Ermine
as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
Miracle on Main Street
as Jim Foreman
Liliom
as Carpenter
TV Shows
(16 total)
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Studio One
as Juror #4
Climax!
as Stewart
The Defenders
as Ben Burke
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Harry Archer
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Father
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Macduff
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as McKinley
