Walter Abel
Birthday: 1898-06-05
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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.
Movies
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical mom...
View Movie
Holiday Inn
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her fo...
View Movie
Island in the Sky
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrad...
View Movie
Night of the Dark Full Moon
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals ...
View Movie
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
View Movie
Second Wife
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to ...
View Movie
Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...
View Movie
Wake Island
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to ke...
View Movie
Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted fr...
View Movie
13 Rue Madeleine
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes su...
View Movie
Mirage
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a ma...
View Movie
Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys...
View Movie
That Lady in Ermine
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hun...
View Movie
The Steel Jungle
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with...
View Movie
The Indian Fighter
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daug...
View Movie
Night People
A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians ...
View Movie
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....
View Movie
Skylark
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming ...
View Movie
Glamour Boy
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays ...
View Movie
Beyond the Blue Horizon
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the ...
View Movie
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll...
View Movie
Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...
View Movie
The Kid from Brooklyn
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who ...
View Movie
So Proudly We Hail
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a...
View Movie
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the you...
View Movie
The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
View Movie
Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa...
View Movie
Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
View Movie
An American Romance
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family....
View Movie
Wise Girl
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with the...
View Movie
The Affairs of Susan
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three form...
View Movie
Two in the Dark
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventu...
View Movie
Law of the Underworld
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connectio...
View Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
View Movie
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friend...
View Movie
Dream Girl
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries...
View Movie
Fired Wife
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets...
View Movie
Men with Wings
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville an...
View Movie
Handle with Care
A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime....
View Movie
Kiss and Tell
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye...
View Movie
The Lady Consents
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending...
View Movie
We Went to College
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming....
View Movie
Miracle on Main Street
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor ...
View Movie
Quick, Let's Get Married
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure....
View Movie
First Offenders
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a f...
View Movie
The Witness Chair
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker...
View Movie
Portia on Trial
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lo...
View Movie
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series....
View Movie
Dance, Girl, Dance
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man...
View Movie
Duffy's Tavern
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces t...
View Movie
Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
View Movie
The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
View Movie
Green Light
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's ...
View Movie
The Human Duplicators
An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and crea...
View Movie
Grace Quigley
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she...
View Movie
The Fabulous Joe
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamon...
View Movie
The Man Without a Country
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is order...
View Movie
Picture in Your Mind
Sent by the U.S. government as a participant in the Marshall Plan with a specific mission to assist ...
View Movie
King of the Turf
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on...
View Movie
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiti...
View Movie
The North Wind's Malice
When Lois Folsom's continual complaints about her husband Roger's sloppiness finally drive him out o...
View Movie
Israel: The Story of the Jewish People
One of the first American film introductions to Israel, this vitally interesting country - both obje...
View Movie
Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes
Film from the leading American producer of aluminum illustrating the versatility of the material in ...
View Movie
Sincerely, Willis Wade
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man....
View Movie
Out of a Clear Sky
A Belgian countess escapes to America to avoid a loveless marriage and finds romance and adventure i...
View Movie