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George Tobias(1901-1980)

  • Actor
  • Soundtrack
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"Bewitched" George Tobias and Sandra Gould c. 1968 ABC
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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
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American character actor who specialized in none-too-bright pals of the lead, though his range included villains and ethnic types. A native of New York City, he began acting at 15. He studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and played on Broadway with the Theatre Guild, and with the Provincetown Players. He came to Hollywood in the late Thirties and quickly became a fixture in films of all genres, primarily at Warner Bros. He was a frequent foil for James Cagney and played everything from comedies to dramas and musicals. In the 1960s, he achieved greater fame as the long-suffering neighbor Abner Kravitz on the hit TV show Bewitched (1964). He retired in 1972. He died of cancer a decade later.
BornJuly 14, 1901
DiedFebruary 27, 1980(78)
BornJuly 14, 1901
DiedFebruary 27, 1980(78)
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Photos51

Linda Darnell and George Tobias in Everybody Does It (1949)
Rita Hayworth, James Gleason, and George Tobias in Affectionately Yours (1941)
Faye Emerson and George Tobias in Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
James Cagney, Elia Kazan, Frank McHugh, Bob Steele, and George Tobias in City for Conquest (1940)
James Cagney, Elia Kazan, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, and George Tobias in City for Conquest (1940)
John Garfield and George Tobias in Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Helmut Dantine, Vladimir Sokoloff, and George Tobias in Passage to Marseille (1944)
Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, and George Tobias in Between Two Worlds (1944)
John Agar, Patricia Medina, and George Tobias in The Magic Carpet (1951)
James Brown, Charles Drake, Pat Gleason, Arthur Kennedy, John Ridgely, George Tobias, and Gig Young in Air Force (1943)
Susan Hayward and George Tobias in Rawhide (1951)
Jack Elam, Hugh Marlowe, and George Tobias in Rawhide (1951)

Known for

Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Joan Leslie in Sergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York
7.7
  • 'Pusher' Ross
  • 1941
This Is the Army (1943)
This Is the Army
5.8
  • Maxie Twardofsky
  • 1943
Silk Stockings (1957)
Silk Stockings
6.8
  • Vassili Markovitch
  • 1957
Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille (1944)
Passage to Marseille
6.8
  • Petit
  • 1944

Credits

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Actor

  • Tabitha (1976)
    Tabitha
  • Eddie Albert, Robert Wagner, and Sharon Gless in Switch (1975)
    Switch
  • Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in Starsky and Hutch (1975)
    Starsky and Hutch
  • James Daly in Medical Center (1969)
    Medical Center
  • Insight (1960)
    Insight
  • The Waltons (1972)
    The Waltons
  • Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)
    Bewitched
  • Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)
    Mannix
  • Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, E.G. Marshall, Tatsuya Mihashi, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, James Whitmore, and Sô Yamamura in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
    • (uncredited)
  • Busby Berkeley, Maureen O'Sullivan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Bergen, Pat O'Brien, Dick Clark, Xavier Cugat, Cass Daley, Andy Devine, Fritz Feld, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, John Hart, Louis Hayward, George Jessel, Ruby Keeler, Patsy Kelly, Dorothy Lamour, Guy Lombardo, Joe Louis, Trini López, Marilyn Maxwell, Butterfly McQueen, Martha Raye, Harold Sakata, Harland Sanders, Jay Silverheels, Ed Sullivan, Rudy Vallee, Clint Walker, and Johnny Weissmuller in The Phynx (1970)
    The Phynx
  • Love, American Style (1969)
    Love, American Style
  • Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
    The Glass Bottom Boat
  • Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
    Nightmare in the Sun
  • Audie Murphy, Ruta Lee, and Darren McGavin in Bullet for a Badman (1964)
    Bullet for a Badman

Soundtrack

  • Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)
    Bewitched
  • Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Jack Carson, Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, and Alexis Smith in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
    Thank Your Lucky Stars
    • ("The Dreamer" (1943), uncredited)
  • This Is the Army (1943)
    This Is the Army
  • John Garfield, John Ridgely, and Gig Young in Air Force (1943)
    Air Force
    • (uncredited)
  • George Reeves, Florence Bates, Lucile Fairbanks, George Tobias, and Ernest Truex in Calling All Husbands (1940)
    Calling All Husbands
    • (uncredited)
  • Rita Hayworth and Tony Martin in Music in My Heart (1940)
    Music in My Heart
    • (uncredited)

Videos8

Official Trailer
Trailer 2:43
Official Trailer
Official Trailer
Trailer 2:27
Official Trailer
Sergeant York
Trailer 2:00
Sergeant York
Torrid Zone
Trailer 2:08
Torrid Zone
They Drive By Night
Trailer 1:51
They Drive By Night
Passage To Marseille
Trailer 2:17
Passage To Marseille
Objective, Burma!
Trailer 2:15
Objective, Burma!
The Glass Bottom Boat
Trailer 2:46
The Glass Bottom Boat

Personal details

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    • July 14, 1901
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • February 27, 1980
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(bladder cancer)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following productions:

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    He was a lifelong bachelor but for 40 years had an off-and-on relationship with actress Milicent Patrick until his death in 1980.

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