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