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George Tobias

George Tobias

Birthday: 1901-07-14 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Tobias (July 14, 1901 – February 27, 1980) was an American character actor. Born to a Jewish family in New York, he began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. He then spent several years in theater groups before moving on to Broadway and, eventually, Hollywood. In 1939, Tobias signed with Warner Brothers, where he played in supporting roles, many times along with James Cagney, in such movies as Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as well as with Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941). Tobias later achieved fame in the 1960s by playing long-suffering neighbor Abner Kravitz on the TV sitcom Bewitched. George Tobias never married and retired from acting in 1977 after a guest role in the Bewitched sequel Tabitha. On February 27, 1980, Tobias died of bladder cancer at the age of 78 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The hearse containing his body was stolen on the way to the mortuary. The driver got out to speak to someone, and vandals stole the car. After driving about a mile, they realized that Tobias' body was in the back and fled the car. He is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens County, New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Tobias, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1970
The Phynx

as    Markevitch

1965
Nightmare in the Sun

as    Gideon

1963
A New Kind of Love

as    Joe Bergner

1959
Adventures in Paradise

as    Trader Penrose

1958
Marjorie Morningstar

as    Maxwell Greech

1957
The Tattered Dress

as    Billy Giles

1957
Silk Stockings

as    Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art

1954
The Glenn Miller Story

as    Si Schribman

1951
Rawhide

as    Gratz

1951
Ten Tall Men

as    Londos

1951
The Magic Carpet

as    Razi

1950
Southside 1-1000

as    Reggie

1949
The Set-Up

as    Tiny

1948
Adventures of Casanova

as    Jacopo

1947
Sinbad the Sailor

as    Abbu

1947
My Wild Irish Rose

as    Nick Popolis

1946
Nobody Lives Forever

as    Al Doyle

1946
Gallant Bess

as    Lug Johnson

1945
Objective, Burma!

as    Cpl. Gabby Gordon

1944
Make Your Own Bed

as    Boris Fenilise

1944
Between Two Worlds

as    Pete Musick

1944
Passage to Marseille

as    Petit

1943
Air Force

as    Asst. Crew Chief

1943
This Is the Army

as    Maxie Twardofsky

1942
My Sister Eileen

as    Appopolous

1942
Captains of the Clouds

as    Blimp Lebec (bush pilot)

1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy

as    Dietz

1942
Wings for the Eagle

as    Jake Hanso

1942
Juke Girl

as    Nick Garcos, the Greek

1941
Sergeant York

as    "Pusher" Ross