Philip Ober

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Phil Ober was also married to Vivan Vance, I Love Lucy's Ethel Mertz.

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Philip Ober was an American actor, born, 23 March 1902 in Fort Payne, Alabama (United States), deceased on 13 September 1982, Mexico City (Mexico). He often appeared in roles as a straight man in farcical circumstances. From 1954 to 1967 he frequently appeared in television series. [1]

He had an important, but brief role, as the UN ambassador in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest whom Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) meets, in order to clarify who had occupied his mansion.

He reprised role as straight man, as Gen. Wingard Stone in the very early episodes of long-running NBC situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie.

[edit] Filmography

1934 : Chloe, Love Is Calling You : Jim
1938 : Little Me
1950 : The Magnificent Yankee : Owen Wister / Narrator
1950 : The Secret Fury : Gregory Kent
1950 : Mon cow-boy adoré (Never a Dull Moment) : Jed
1951 : The Unknown Man : Wayne Kellwin
1952 : Washington Story : Gilbert Nunnally
1952 : Reviens petite Sheba (Come Back, Little Sheba) : Ed Anderson
1953 : The Clown : Ralph Z. Henderson
1953 : The Girls of Pleasure Island : Col. Reade
1953 : Scandal at Scourie : B. G. Belney
1953 : Tant qu'il y aura des hommes (From Here to Eternity) : Capt. Dana 'Dynamite' Holmes
1954 : Romance sans lendemain (About Mrs. Leslie) : Mort Finley
1954 : La Lance brisée (Broken Lance) : Van Cleve
1956 : Calling Terry Conway (TV) : Stan
1957 : Tammy and the Bachelor : Alfred Bissle
1957 : Escapade au Japon (Escapade in Japan) : Lt. Col. Hargrave
1958 : L'Amour coûte cher (The High Cost of Loving) : Herb Zorn
1958 : Ten North Frederick : Lloyd Williams
1958 : La Dernière torpille (Torpedo Run) : Adm. Samuel Setton
1959 : Comment dénicher un mari (The Mating Game) : Wendell Burnshaw
1959 : La Mort aux trousses (North by Northwest) : Lester Townsend
1959 : Un matin comme les autres (Beloved Infidel) : John Wheeler
1960 : Elmer Gantry, le charlatan (Elmer Gantry) : Rev. Planck
1960 : Let No Man Write My Epitaph : Grant Holloway
1960 : Voulez-vous pêcher avec moi? (The Facts of Life) : Doc Mason
1961 : The Crimebusters : Herman Hauzner
1961 : Volupté (Go Naked in the World) : Josh Kebner
1963 : Le Vilain américain (The Ugly American) : Ambassador Sears
1964 : The Brass Bottle : William Beevor
1966 : The Ghost and Mr. Chicken : Nicholas Simmons
1968 : Assignment to Kill : Bohlen