Walter Abel
Actor
Biography
Walter Abel (June 6, 1898 â 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 (nÊe 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.
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Filmography
Holiday Inn
as Danny Reed 1942
Mirage
as Charles Stewart Calvin 1965
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Mayor Adams 1972
The Indian Fighter
as Captain Trask 1955
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Judge 1940
Island in the Sky
as Col. Fuller 1953
Mr. Skeffington
as George Trellis 1944
Raintree County
as T.D. Shawnessy 1957
Hold Back the Dawn
as Inspector Hammock 1941
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #4 1954
13 Rue Madeleine
as Charles Gibson 1947
Night People
as Maj. R.A. Foster 1954
Wake Island
as Cmdr. Roberts 1942
So Proudly We Hail
as Chaplain 1943
Arise, My Love
as Phillips 1940
The Human Duplicators
as Dr. Munson 1965