Martin Gabel was an American actor, film director and film producer.
10 Facts About Martin Gabel
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Martin Gabel married Arlene Francis on May 14,1946, and they had a son named Peter Gabel.
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One of Martin Gabel's earliest noted roles was as Neil Williams, a newspaper reporter, on the radio serial comedy Easy Aces in the mid-to-late 1930s.
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Martin Gabel's most noted work was as narrator and host of the May 8,1945, CBS Radio broadcast of Norman Corwin's epic dramatic poem On a Note of Triumph, a commemoration of the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany and the end of World War II in Europe.
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Martin Gabel was first associated with Orson Welles when he played Javert in his six-part radio adaptation of Les Miserables.
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Martin Gabel became one of the original members of Welles's Mercury Theatre repertory company.
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Martin Gabel appeared in few films over his career, usually in small roles.
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Martin Gabel played another mob figure in a Frank Sinatra private-detective film, Lady in Cement, then co-starred again with Sinatra in Contract on Cherry Street and The First Deadly Sin.
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Martin Gabel played businessman Mr Strutt in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, and the psychiatrist in the Billy Wilder version of The Front Page with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
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Martin Gabel died in New York City from a heart attack on May 22,1986, aged 73.