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

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

1942

Holiday Inn

as Danny Reed

1953

Island in the Sky

as Col. Fuller

1972

1936

Fury

as District Attorney

1936

Second Wife

as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as George Trellis

1942

Wake Island

as Cmdr. Roberts

1957

Raintree County

as T.D. Shawnessy

1947

13 Rue Madeleine

as Charles Gibson

1965

Mirage

as Charles Stewart Calvin

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

as Inspector Hammock

1948

That Lady in Ermine

as Major Horvath / Benvenuto

1956

The Steel Jungle

as Warden Bill Keller

1955

The Indian Fighter

as Captain Trask

1954

Night People

as Maj. R.A. Foster

1938

Racket Busters

as Hugh Allison

1941

Skylark

as George Gore

1941

Glamour Boy

as Anthony J. Colder

1942

Beyond the Blue Horizon

as Prof. Thornton

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as B.G. DeSoto

1946

The Kid from Brooklyn

as Gabby Sloan

1943

1930

Liliom

as Carpenter

1935

1940

Arise, My Love

as Phillips

1947

Variety Girl

as Walter Abel (uncredited)

1944

An American Romance

as Howard Clinton

1937

Wise Girl

as Karl

1945

The Affairs of Susan

as Richard Aiken

1936

Two in the Dark

as Ford Adams

1938

Law of the Underworld

as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1940

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

as Dr. George Benedict

1948

Dream Girl

as George Allerton

1943

Fired Wife

as Chris McClelland

1953

So This Is Love

as Col. James Moore

1938

Men with Wings

as Nick Ranson

1958

Handle with Care

as Prof. Roger Bowden

1945

Kiss and Tell

as Harry Archer

1936

The Lady Consents

as Stanley Ashton

1936

We Went to College

as Phil Talbot

1939

1964

The Confession

as The Thief

1939

First Offenders

as Gregory Stone

1936

The Witness Chair

as James Trent

1937

Portia on Trial

as Dan Foster

1954

Twelve Angry Men

as Juror #4

1940

1945

Duffy's Tavern

as Director

1944

Follow the Boys

as Walter Abel (uncredited)

1944

The Hitler Gang

as Narrator (voice)

1937

Green Light

as John Stafford

1965

1985

Grace Quigley

as Homer Morrison

1947

The Fabulous Joe

as Milo Terkel

1973

The Man Without a Country

as Col. A.B. Morgan

1948

1939

King of the Turf

as Robert Barnes

1943

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator

1957

Bernardine

as Mr. Beaumont

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