Gabel, Martin

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Gabel, Martin (1912–86), character actor and producer. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Lehigh University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Gabel made his professional debut on Broadway at the age of twenty‐one and was busily employed thereafter. As a member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, he played the conspirator Cassius in the modern dress Julius Caesar (1937), the title revolutionary in Danton's Death (1938), and other roles that brought him notice. He played both comic roles and sinister characters for decades in films and on Broadway, where he also directed productions and even produced a few, most notably the long‐run champ Life with Father (1939). But he became most famous for his many appearances on television quiz shows.

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