Martin Gabel
Martin Gabel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on June 19th, 1912 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 73, Martin Gabel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Martin Gabel (June 19, 1912 – May 22, 1986) was an American actor, film director and film producer.
Life and career
Rebecca and Isaac Gabel, a jeweler, and Gabel were born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, both Jewish immigrants. He married Arlene Francis on May 14, 1946, and they had a son named Peter Gabel.
Neil Williams, a newspaper reporter, appeared on the radio serial comedy Easy Aces in the mid-to-late 1930s, and it was one of Gabel's first recognized roles. Norman Corwin's most notable contribution on May 8, 1945, CBS Radio broadcast of his epic poem On a Note of Triumph, a commemoration of the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. The show was so popular that CBS, NBC, Blue and Mutual networks carried a second live broadcast of the show on May 13. An album of the May 13 series was also released by the Columbia Masterworks record label. In 2005, the 60th anniversary year of the program, the production became the subject of Academy Award-winning short film A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.
In his six-part radio version of Les Misérables (1937), Gabel first met Orson Welles. 338 He was one of the original members of Welles' Mercury Theatre repertory company. Cassius in Caesar (1937), a critically acclaimed modern-dress interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy streamlined into an anti-fascist tour de force in Danton's Death (1938). In "Dracula" (1938), the first episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, he appeared on radio as Professor Van Helsing.: 50
He made his first film, The Lost Moment, in 1947. Gabel appeared in few films over his career, but mostly in small roles. In Richard Brooks' Deadline U.S.A. (1952), starring Humphrey Bogart, a crucial supporting role was played by crime boss Tomas Rienzi. Gabel appeared in another mob film by Frank Sinatra, Lady in Cement (1968), then co-starred with Sinatra in Contract on Cherry Street and The First Deadly Sin.
Gabel received the Best Performance by a Featured Actor for the comedy Big Fish, Little Fish in 1961; he was also known for his appearances in the Broadway productions of Professor Moriarty; The Rivalry, in which he played Stephen A. Douglas.
In Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), Gabel played businessman Mr. Strutt, and the psychiatrist in the Billy Wilder version of The Front Page (1974) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. He was a regular panelist on CBS Television's popular Sunday night game show What's My Line?, on which his wife, Arlene Francis, was a regular panelist.