Sebastian Cabot

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Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (6 July 1918 – 22 August 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, Giles French, opposite Brian Keith's character, William "Uncle Bill" Davis, in the CBS-TV sitcom Family Affair (1966–1971).

He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film Kismet (1955) and Dr.

Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series Checkmate (1960–1962). Cabot was also a voice performer in many Disney animated films.

He made his first contribution in The Sword in the Stone (1963), as both the narrator and Sir Ector.

Not long thereafter, he brought life to Bagheera in The Jungle Book (1967).

His longest-standing role came through the Winnie the Pooh series, in which he narrated Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974), and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977).

Early life

Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was born on 6 July 1918 in London, England. At the age of 14, he left school to work in an automotive garage, where he served as chauffeur and valet for British actor Frank Pettingell.

Cabot became interested in theatre, and after becoming acquainted with other actors and having worked for Pettingell, he joined a repertory company. Cabot admitted that in gaining employment as an actor he lied about previous acting credits. Cabot stated later in a 1968 interview that he believed acting was a type of lying, and he had gained a smoothness in his speech while serving as Pettingell's dressing room butler.

At this time, Cabot developed a love of cooking and, at the urging of his father, became a chef. However, after wrecking a car, Cabot left the garage and had to look for acting work on his own.

He initially used an agency to find acting employment. Without attending any drama school, Cabot learned the hard way, having been fired on his first day in a show called On The Spot. However, finding more work, Cabot's confidence in his acting skills increased, and he was soon receiving personal calls for employment.

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Career

His formal acting career began with a little part in Foreign Affaires (1935); his first film role was in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936). Other British films followed such as Love on the Dole (1941), Pimpernel Smith (also 1941), Old Mother Riley Overseas, and Old Mother Riley Detective (both 1943) and They Made Me a Fugitive (1947). In 1946, he portrayed Iago in a condensed short film version of Othello. Cabot was active in such British films as Third Time Lucky (1949), The Spider and the Fly (1949), as the villainous Fouracada in Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949), but also in Ivanhoe (1952) and The Love Lottery (1954). He appeared in a few international films, including the Spanish-UK-USA Sinbad comedy Babes (1952) and the Italian version of Romeo and Juliet (1954) before heading to the United States, where he worked for Disney on Westward Ho, the Wagons. Jonathan Lyte, the scheming landlord in Johnny Tremain (1957). In George Pal's production of H.G., he was an actor. The Time Machine (1960) by Dr. Hillyer he was skeptical of the time traveller's tale. Cabot, on the other hand, had begun to act as a voice actor. In the 1950s, he appeared in Horizons West, a 13-part radio drama that related the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and he was the voice of Noah in the first recording of Igor Stravinsky's biblical'musical's The Flood (1962). He appeared in animated films including Disney's The Sword In The Stone (1963) as Sir Ector and in The Jungle Book (1967) as Bagheera.

Cabot began doing television at this time. On The Beachcomber, he was the host of the syndicated Jack the Ripper series: 520 and he portrayed the Count of Brisemont.

In the western series "The Story of Julesburg" (with varying roles 1959–1971), he appeared in Gunsmoke ("The Photographer"), as the title character "Professor Jacoby" (either narrator or unashmpathetic photographer). Cabot appeared on the detective show Checkmate (1960–1962) for two years as one of the three leads as college professor Dr. Carl Hyatt. 1590: Checkmate starred in the CBS Saturday program "Five O'Clock Friday" as Eric Whitaker, a character from "The Islanders," as Checkmate was a child actor. Cabot appeared on Stump the Stars, a regular panelist. 103 years ago on the NBC interview show Here's Hollywood. He appeared on television series Suspense in 1964 and narrated a handful other film and television series before being cast from 1966 to 1971 as Giles French in the CBS series Family Affair. During Family Affair's run, 324 Cabot did not stop filming or television work, but he did take a leave of absence from the series at one point, as well as other period work. Even after Family Affair's production ended in 1971, he was so vividly etched as French in viewers' minds that he never shook the image. After leaving the program, he reprised his role as the host (Winston Essex) of Ghost Story (1972), a supernatural anthology (it was renamed Circle of Fear). Cabot appeared in the television version of Miracle on 34th Street (1973), despite the series's demise. Cabot appeared in another Christmas film, the television film The City That Forgot About Christmas (1974), and narrated two other Pooh programmes, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too! Winnie the Pooh's Many Adventures. In 1967, Sebastian Cabot, actor/Bob Dylan, poet, released an album of spoken recitations of songs by Bob Dylan. On the Rhino Records compilation Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing Off, two tracks from this collection are included.

In Love for Love (1947), Cabot portrayed Buckram in Love for Love (1947).

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