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Dan Tobin

Dan Tobin

Actor · 1910 – 1982 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Tobin (October 19, 1910 – November 26, 1982) was an American supporting actor on the stage, in films and on television. He generally played gentle, urbane, rather fussy, sometimes obsequious and shifty characters, often with a concealed edge of malice. Tobin acted with a touring troupe in England. After an impresario saw him in Ah, Wilderness!, he gained a role in Behind Your Back at the Strand. Tobin's most memorable roles were as the overbearing secretary, Gerald, in Woman of the Year (1942), and the top-billed scientist in Orson Welles's innovative Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot, The Fountain of Youth, filmed in 1956 and televised once two years later as an installment of NBC's Colgate Theatre. Tobin also played as Alexander "Sandy" Lord in the original Broadway production of Phillip Barry's The Philadelphia Story, thus starting his career on stage in 1939. His work on Broadway included American Holiday (1939). On television, Tobin was a regular on I Married Joan, My Favorite Husband, and Where Were You? The Internet Movie Database lists 96 television and film acting roles for Tobin over a career spanning from 1939 to 1977. He became a regular during the final season of Perry Mason as the proprietor of "Clay's Grill". He had made a prior appearance in 1964 as Dickens the butler in "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor."

Series24

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.5

    Hogan's Heroes

    1965 · 193 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bewitched

    1964 · 764 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    The Odd Couple

    1970 · 69 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV7.3

    Batman

    1966 · 617 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV5.7

    Naked City

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Wild Wild West

    1965 · 86 votes

  • TV5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.2

    Yancy Derringer

    1958 · 11 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV7.0

    Omnibus

    1952 · 4 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

Movies22

  • Movie6.2

    Herbie Rides Again

    1974 · 452 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Woman of the Year

    1942 · 169 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.3

    The Big Clock

    1948 · 189 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie6.9
  • Movie5.9

    Undercurrent

    1946 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie5.2

    Who's Got the Action?

    1962 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Catered Affair

    1956 · 48 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Only with Married Men

    1974 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Dream Wife

    1953 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Velvet Touch

    1948 · 34 votes

  • Movie7.5
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie9.0
  • Movie6.9

    The Last Angry Man

    1959 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Fountain of Youth

    1958 · 17 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Queen for a Day

    1951 · 2 votes

  • Movie4.8

    A Likely Story

    1947 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Sealed Verdict

    1948 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Black Limelight

    1938 · 4 votes