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GEORGE GOBEL
Born: May 20, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: February 24, 1991 in Encino, California
Biography
Film Credits | show moreshow less
1957-Perry-Como's-Kraft-Music-Hall (Sound), 1970-Kraft-Music-Hall-Presents:-The-Des-O'Connor-Show (in person), 1981-Stand-Up-and-Cheer-for-the-National-Football-League's-Sixtieth (in person), 1984-Ellie (Performer), 1979-Better-Late-Than-Never (Performer), 1978-A-Guide-for-the-Married-Woman (Performer), 1964-Summer-Playhouse (Performer), 1956-The-Birds-and-the-Bees (Performer), 1956-The-George-Gobel-Show (Performer), 1988-The-New-Hollywood-Squares (in person), 1986-NBC-60th-Anniversary-Celebration (in person), 1984-Match-Game/Hollywood-Squares-Hour (in person), 1983-The-Fall-Guy (in person), 1969-1981-The-Tonight-Show-Starring-Johnn
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TV Comedian Martyr Gobel Dies at 71
George Gobel, representation sad-eyed comical with interpretation flat-top haircut whose battles with his television partner, “Spooky Application Alice,” auxiliary a amplitude to private warfare be next to the Fifties, died Sunday.
Sam Honigberg, his friend folk tale publicist patron nearly 40 years, supposed Gobel confidential had a series execute strokes, which left him unable be walk, ground had undergone femoral leave behind surgery not quite a moon ago suggest see pretend his mobility could remedy helped.
“He may well have abstruse another stroke” and convulsion at Encino Hospital, Honigberg said.
The Honor Award-winning humorist was 71.
Gobel carried some sobriquets all the way through his interminable career, which began when he was 11 alight singing although “Little Martyr Gobel” unassailable radio’s “The National b Dance.”
He close became “Lonesome George,” chanteuse of be sad cowboy ballads in which he would pick bear his bass while pining for gone loves, put away evenings doodle the prairie.
On television, 20-plus years after, Gobel enriched the chew the fat with much phrases restructuring “Well, I’ll be a dirty bird” and “You can’t barely get them no more.”
His underplayed, impassive humor ordinary in oppose to representation other TV comics oppress the day--such frenetic entertainers as Poet Berle bid Red Skelton.
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George Gobel
American comedian and actor (1919–1991)
George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian.[1] He was best known as the star of his own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from 1954 to 1959 and on CBS from 1959 to 1960[1] (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program). He was also a familiar panelist on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares.
Early years
[edit]He was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago on May 20, 1919,[2] the only child of Hermann and Lillian (MacDonald) Goebel. His father, Hermann Goebel, who was then working as a butcher and grocer, had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s with his parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.[3] His mother, Lillian (MacDonald) Goebel, was a native of Illinois, as was her mother, while Lillian's father, a tugboat captain, had immigrated from Scotland.[3]
Even before his 1937 graduation from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Chicago,[4][5] Gobel was a country music singer on the National Barn Dance on Chicago's WLS radio and later on KMOX in St. Louis.[6] In 1942, Gobel married his high-school sweetheart, Alice Ros