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