Abner Biberman Overview:

Character actor, Abner Biberman, was born on Apr 1, 1909 in Milwaukee, WI. Biberman died at the age of 68 on Jun 20, 1977 in San Diego, CA .

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Polynesian-looking American actor with dark hair, quizzical eyebrows and set expression. Originally a journalist, he turned to acting in the 1930s, coming to Hollywood in 1939 and soon qualifying for all kinds of foreign menaces. In the 1950s he doubled up as a drama coach at Universal-International (as it then was), the studio that gave him the chance to direct films in 1955, after which he gave up acting. From the end of that decade, Biberman worked solidly in TV, directing episodes of drama series.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Abner Biberman Quotes:

Charlie How-Come: You don't get the idea, mister. These cops banging those pans, flashing those lights, they're gonna scare that poor cat of mine. Cats are funny, mister. They don't want to hurt you, but if you scare them they go crazy. These cops, they don't know what they're doing.


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Short, thin, exotic-looking character actor, he could play anything from a South Seas islander to an Indian bandit to a Japanese army officer, but he was cast most memorably as a hood or a convict (such as Louie in His Girl Friday (1940)). Biberman was extremely active as an actor on Broadway from 1934-38, usually working with the more avant garde Group Theatre company before moving to Hollywood as a character actor. He went on to have a busy later second career as a TV director, guiding episodes of everything from "Gunsmoke" (1955) to "Gilligan's Island" (1964).

Towards the end of his career Universal Pictures appointed him head of the studio's Casting Department, responsible for casting most of the roles in its film and television productions.

Ex-father-in-law of Elizabeth Perry.

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