Walter Abel
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-06-05 (89 years old)
Deathday
1987-03-26
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Also known As
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Walter Abel
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 Ene...
Acting
1976
1942
as Danny Reed
1953
as Col. Fuller
1972
as Mayor Adams
1936
as District Attorney
1936
as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.
1944
as George Trellis
1942
as Cmdr. Roberts
1957
as T.D. Shawnessy
1947
as Charles Gibson
1965
as Charles Stewart Calvin
1941
as Inspector Hammock
1948
as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
1956
as Warden Bill Keller
1955
as Captain Trask
1954
as Maj. R.A. Foster
1938
as Hugh Allison
1941
as George Gore
1941
as Anthony J. Colder
1942
as Prof. Thornton
1940
as Elliott Thomas
1942
as B.G. DeSoto
1946
as Gabby Sloan
1943
as Chaplain
1930
as Carpenter
1935
as D'Artagnan
1940
as Phillips
1947
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
1944
as Howard Clinton
1937
as Karl
1945
as Richard Aiken
1936
as Ford Adams
1938
as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
as Dr. George Benedict
1948
as George Allerton
1943
as Chris McClelland
1953
as Col. James Moore
1938
as Nick Ranson
1958
as Prof. Roger Bowden
1945
as Harry Archer
1936
as Stanley Ashton
1936
as Phil Talbot
1939
as Jim Foreman
1964
as The Thief
1939
as Gregory Stone
1936
as James Trent
1937
as Dan Foster
1954
as Juror #4
1940
as Judge
1945
as Director
1944
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
1944
as Narrator (voice)
1937
as John Stafford
1965
as Dr. Munson
1985
as Homer Morrison
1947
as Milo Terkel
1973
as Col. A.B. Morgan
1948
as Narrator
1939
as Robert Barnes
1943
as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator
1957
as Mr. Beaumont
1920
as Tom
1965
as Narrator
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