Walter Abel
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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.
Known for
Credits
Grace Quigley (1985)
as Homer Morrison
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as George Trellis
Night People (1954)
as Maj. R.A. Foster
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
as Judge
So Proudly We Hail (1943)
as Chaplain
Quick, Let's Get Married (1964)
as Thief
Fury (1936)
as District Attorney
Holiday Inn (1942)
as Danny Reed
Raintree County (1957)
as T.D. Shawnessy
Wise Girl (1937)
as Karl
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
as Gabby Sloan
Island in the Sky (1953)
as Col. Fuller
The Indian Fighter (1955)
as Captain Trask
Arise, My Love (1940)
as Phillips
An American Romance (1944)
as Howard Clinton
Mirage (1965)
as Charles Stewart Calvin
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
as Inspector Hammock
Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
as Mayor Adams
The Human Duplicators (1965)
as Dr. Munson
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Affairs of Susan (1945)
as Richard Aiken
Sincerely, Willis Wade (1956)
as Mr. Wayde
The Man Without a Country (1973)
as Col. A.B. Morgan
Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)
as Dr. George Benedict
Israel: The Story of the Jewish People (1965)
as Narrator
The Lady Consents (1936)
as Stanley Ashton
Glamour Boy (1941)
as Anthony J. Colder
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
as Charles Gibson
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
as Major Horvath / Benvenuto
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
as Elliott Thomas
Variety Girl (1947)
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
Actor
Racket Busters (1938)
as Hugh Allison
The Three Musketeers (1935)
as D'Artagnan
Two in the Dark (1936)
as Ford Adams
Law of the Underworld (1938)
as Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
Kiss and Tell (1945)
as Harry Archer
The Hitler Gang (1944)
as Narrator (voice)
Miracle on Main Street (1939)
as Jim Foreman
King of the Turf (1939)
as Robert Barnes
Liliom (1930)
as Carpenter
So This Is Love (1953)
as Col. James Moore
Follow the Boys (1944)
as Walter Abel (uncredited)
Wake Island (1942)
as Cmdr. Roberts
Green Light (1937)
as John Stafford
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as B.G. DeSoto
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
as Prof. Thornton
Men with Wings (1938)
as Nick Ranson
Dream Girl (1948)
as George Allerton
The Fabulous Joe (1947)
as Milo Terkel
The North Wind's Malice (1920)
as Tom
Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes (1956)
Actor
Handle with Care (1958)
as Prof. Roger Bowden
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976)
as Judge
Skylark (1941)
as George Gore
Twelve Angry Men (1954)
as Juror #4
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
as Jack, a Flyer, Opening Narrator
Bernardine (1957)
as Mr. Beaumont
Second Wife (1936)
as Kenneth Carpenter Sr.
Picture in Your Mind (1948)
as Narrator
Duffy's Tavern (1945)
as Director
Portia on Trial (1937)
as Dan Foster
The Witness Chair (1936)
as James Trent
We Went to College (1936)
as Phil Talbot
Fired Wife (1943)
as Chris McClelland
First Offenders (1939)
as Gregory Stone
The Steel Jungle (1956)
as Warden Bill Keller