Cast
Walter Abel
Acting
Cast
Walter Abel
Known for
Acting
Born
1898-06-05
From
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died
1987-03-26
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.
★6.8
MOVIE1944
Mr. Skeffington
as George Trellis
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Grace Quigley
as Homer Morrison
★6.2
MOVIE1954
Night People
as Maj. R.A. Foster
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Arise, My Love
as Phillips
★6.1
MOVIE1944
An American Romance
as Howard Clinton
★5.9
MOVIE1943
So Proudly We Hail
as Chaplain
★6.4
MOVIE1957
Raintree County
as T.D. Shawnessy
★6.4
MOVIE1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Judge
★6.4
MOVIE1955
The Indian Fighter
as Captain Trask
★7.1
MOVIE1965
Mirage
as Charles Stewart Calvin
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Wise Girl
as Karl
MOVIE1965
Israel: The Story of the Jewish People
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Variety Girl
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
as B.G. DeSoto
★6.7
MOVIE1937
Green Light
as John Stafford
★3.7
MOVIE1965
The Human Duplicators
as Dr. Munson
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Holiday Inn
as Danny Reed
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Island in the Sky
as Col. Fuller
★3.5
MOVIE1964
Quick, Let's Get Married
as Thief
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Fury
as District Attorney
★6.3
MOVIE1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Gabby Sloan
★6.1
MOVIE1947
13 Rue Madeleine
as Charles Gibson
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Prof. Thornton
★5.6
MOVIE1956
The Steel Jungle
as Warden Bill Keller
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1942
Wake Island
as Cmdr. Roberts
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Hold Back the Dawn
as Inspector Hammock
★5.1
MOVIE1972
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Mayor Adams
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Glamour Boy
as Anthony J. Colder
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Racket Busters
as Hugh Allison
★8.0
MOVIE1956
Sincerely, Willis Wade
as Mr. Wayde
★6.6
MOVIE1940
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Elliott Thomas
★6.4
MOVIE1936
The Lady Consents
as Stanley Ashton
★6.0
MOVIE1948
That Lady in Ermine
as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Follow the Boys
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Law of the Underworld
as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Skylark
as George Gore
★6.6
MOVIE1936
The Witness Chair
as James Trent
★6.4
MOVIE1945
Duffy's Tavern
as Director
★5.4
MOVIE1938
Men with Wings
as Nick Ranson
★6.5
MOVIE1973
The Man Without a Country
as Col. A.B. Morgan
★6.5
MOVIE1945
The Affairs of Susan
as Richard Aiken
★5.0
MOVIE1948
Dream Girl
as George Allerton
★7.9
MOVIE1954
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #4
★6.9
MOVIE1935
The Three Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
★7.6
MOVIE1957
Bernardine
as Mr. Beaumont
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Hitler Gang
as Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1945
Kiss and Tell
as Harry Archer
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Second Wife
as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.
★5.6
MOVIE1943
Fired Wife
as Chris McClelland
★6.0
MOVIE1936
We Went to College
as Phil Talbot
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Miracle on Main Street
as Jim Foreman
★4.3
MOVIE1953
So This Is Love
as Col. James Moore
★5.8
MOVIE1937
Portia on Trial
as Dan Foster
★6.1
MOVIE1936
Two in the Dark
as Ford Adams
★8.0
MOVIE1920
The North Wind's Malice
as Tom
MOVIE1918
Out of a Clear Sky
★5.5
MOVIE1947
The Fabulous Joe
as Milo Terkel
★5.5
MOVIE1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
as Dr. George Benedict
★8.2
MOVIE1958
Handle with Care
as Prof. Roger Bowden
★7.0
MOVIE1939
King of the Turf
as Robert Barnes
MOVIE1956
Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes
★6.8
MOVIE1930
Liliom
as Carpenter
★7.0
MOVIE1976
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
as Judge
★8.5
MOVIE1943
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1939
First Offenders
as Gregory Stone
MOVIE1948
Picture in Your Mind
as Narrator