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.
Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 |
Series | Tabitha | Unknown | 1977-05-07 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
Movie | The Night Strangler | Stacks / Jimmy Stackhaus (scenes deleted) | 1973-01-16 |
Series | The Waltons | Unknown | 1972-09-14 |
Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Captain on Flight Line at Hickam Field (uncredited) | 1970-01-26 |
Movie | The Phynx | Markevitch | 1970-03-06 |
Series | Medical Center | Unknown | 1969-09-24 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Movie | The Glass Bottom Boat | Norman Fenimore | 1966-06-09 |
Movie | Nightmare in the Sun | Gideon | 1965-03-06 |
Movie | Bullet for a Badman | Diggs | 1964-09-01 |
Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Actor in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1964-09-02 |
Series | Bewitched | Abner Kravitz | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Movie | A New Kind of Love | Joe Bergner | 1963-10-10 |
Series | Laramie | Unknown | 1959-09-15 |
Series | Tightrope | Unknown | 1959-09-08 |
Series | The Rebel | Unknown | 1959-10-04 |
Series | Adventures in Paradise | Trader Penrose | 1959-10-05 |
Movie | Marjorie Morningstar | Maxwell Greech | 1958-04-24 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Movie | Silk Stockings | Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art | 1957-06-28 |
Movie | The Tattered Dress | Billy Giles | 1957-03-14 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | The Real McCoys | Unknown | 1957-10-03 |
Movie | The Seven Little Foys | Barney Green | 1955-09-30 |
Movie | The Glenn Miller Story | Si Schribman | 1954-01-04 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
Movie | Desert Pursuit | Ghazili | 1952-05-10 |
Movie | Rawhide | Gratz | 1951-03-25 |
Movie | The Mark of the Renegade | Captain Bardoso | 1951-07-24 |
Movie | The Magic Carpet | Razi | 1951-10-18 |
Movie | Ten Tall Men | Londos | 1951-10-26 |
Movie | Southside 1-1000 | Reggie | 1950-11-16 |
Movie | Everybody Does It | Rossi | 1949-10-24 |
Movie | The Set-Up | Tiny | 1949-03-29 |
Movie | Adventures of Casanova | Jacopo | 1948-02-07 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Sinbad the Sailor | Abbu | 1947-01-13 |
Movie | My Wild Irish Rose | Nick Popolis | 1947-12-24 |
Movie | The Judge Steps Out | Mike | 1947-12-15 |
Movie | Her Kind of Man | Joe Marino | 1946-05-11 |
Movie | Gallant Bess | Lug Johnson | 1946-12-05 |
Movie | Nobody Lives Forever | Al Doyle | 1946-11-01 |
Movie | Objective, Burma! | Cpl. Gabby Gordon | 1945-02-17 |
Movie | Mildred Pierce | Mr. Chris (uncredited) | 1945-10-20 |
Movie | Passage to Marseille | Petit | 1944-03-11 |
Movie | Between Two Worlds | Pete Musick | 1944-05-20 |
Movie | Make Your Own Bed | Boris Fenilise | 1944-06-10 |
Movie | Air Force | Asst. Crew Chief | 1943-03-20 |
Movie | Stars on Horseback | 1943-04-23 | |
Movie | This Is the Army | Maxie Twardofsky | 1943-08-14 |
Movie | Mission to Moscow | Freddie | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Self | 1943-09-25 |
Movie | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Dietz | 1942-05-29 |
Movie | Captains of the Clouds | Blimp Lebec (bush pilot) | 1942-02-12 |
Movie | Juke Girl | Nick Garcos, the Greek | 1942-05-30 |
Movie | Wings for the Eagle | Jake Hanso | 1942-07-18 |
Movie | My Sister Eileen | Appopolous | 1942-09-24 |
Movie | The Strawberry Blonde | Nicholas Pappalas | 1941-02-21 |
Movie | Affectionately Yours | Pasha | 1941-05-10 |
Movie | Sergeant York | "Pusher" Ross | 1941-09-27 |
Movie | Out of the Fog | Igor Propotkin | 1941-06-14 |
Movie | The Bride Came C.O.D. | Peewee Defoe | 1941-07-12 |
Movie | Torrid Zone | Rosario La Mata | 1940-05-18 |
Movie | Music in My Heart | Sascha Bolitov | 1940-01-04 |
Movie | They Drive by Night | George Rondolos | 1940-07-26 |
Movie | Saturday's Children | Herbert 'Herbie' Smith | 1940-05-04 |
Movie | The Man Who Talked Too Much | Slug McNutt | 1940-07-16 |
Movie | River's End | Andy Dijon | 1940-08-10 |
Movie | South of Suez | Eli Snedeker | 1940-11-16 |
Movie | East of the River | Tony Scaduto | 1940-11-09 |
Movie | City for Conquest | 'Pinky' | 1940-09-21 |
Movie | Calling All Husbands | Oscar Armstrong | 1940-09-07 |
Movie | Maisie | Rico | 1939-06-22 |
Movie | Yes, My Darling Daughter | Edith Colby | 1939-02-25 |
Movie | They All Come Out | Sloppy Joe | 1939-08-04 |
Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Beggar | 1939-12-29 |
Movie | Balalaika | Slaski | 1939-12-15 |
Movie | Ninotchka | Russian Visa Official (uncredited) | 1939-11-23 |