Abner Biberman

Abner Biberman

Birthday: 1909-04-01

Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Biography: Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Ruthless-looking, he was in demand to portray a wide variety of heavies and foreign nationalities during the Golden Years of Hollywood. He later developed a successful career as a prolific director of episodic TV, spanning wide genres from Gilligan’s Island to Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series). Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star...

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Gunga Din
Gunga Din

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with...

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The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders....

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Winchester '73
Winchester '73

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting com...

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Elephant Walk
Elephant Walk

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and...

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Betrayal from the East
Betrayal from the East

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal....

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The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...

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Submarine Alert
Submarine Alert

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an ...

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Back to Bataan
Back to Bataan

An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines....

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The Monster and the Girl
The Monster and the Girl

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c...

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Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata!

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

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Whispering Ghosts
Whispering Ghosts

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murd...

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Broadway
Broadway

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s....

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Dragon Seed
Dragon Seed

Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Ch...

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths...

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Devil Pays Off
Devil Pays Off

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene...

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South of Pago Pago
South of Pago Pago

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in ...

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Panama Patrol
Panama Patrol

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal....

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Two-Man Submarine
Two-Man Submarine

Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at ...

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The Golden Mistress
The Golden Mistress

Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, ...

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Singapore Woman
Singapore Woman

A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama....

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Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a ...

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Each Dawn I Die
Each Dawn I Die

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h...

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Lady of the Tropics
Lady of the Tropics

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...

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The Rains Came
The Rains Came

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor ...

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Balalaika
Balalaika

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...

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The Gay Vagabond
The Gay Vagabond

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business....

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Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood

Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship re...

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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Beyond the Blue Horizon

A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the ...

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Roaring City
Roaring City

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murde...

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Enemy Agent
Enemy Agent

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are....

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Salome, Where She Danced
Salome, Where She Danced

During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she...

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South of Tahiti
South of Tahiti

Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love...

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The Marines Fly High
The Marines Fly High

Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the a...

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This Woman Is Mine
This Woman Is Mine

Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Ma...

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King of the Mounties
King of the Mounties

King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They ...

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Strange Conquest
Strange Conquest

Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of...

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The Magnificent Fraud
The Magnificent Fraud

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator....

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Behind the Rising Sun
Behind the Rising Sun

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis....

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Bombardier
Bombardier

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U...

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Panama Lady
Panama Lady

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tu...

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Soak the Rich
Soak the Rich

Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate....

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...

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Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd

Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave...

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Zanzibar
Zanzibar

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worsh...

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South to Karanga
South to Karanga

Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder an...

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Girl from Havana
Girl from Havana

Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America......

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Ski Patrol
Ski Patrol

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders....

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