George Tobias - Turner Classic Movies

George Tobias

Actor

About

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

July 14, 1901

Died

February 27, 1980

Filmography

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The Phynx (1970)

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Nightmare in the Sun (1964)

Bullet for a Badman (1964)

A New Kind of Love (1963)

Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

Photos & Videos

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Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Four Saxes And A Clarinet

City For Conquest (1940) -- (Movie Clip) These Boys Better Be Good

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Phynx (1970)

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Nightmare in the Sun (1964)

Bullet for a Badman (1964)

A New Kind of Love (1963)

Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

The Tattered Dress (1957)

Silk Stockings (1957)

Vassili Markovitch

The Seven Little Foys (1955)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Desert Pursuit (1952)

The Magic Carpet (1951)

Ten Tall Men (1951)

The Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Captain Bardoso

Southside 1-1000 (1950)

Everybody Does It (1949)

The Set-Up (1949)

The Judge Steps Out (1949)

Adventures of Casanova (1948)

Gallant Bess (1947)

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

Her Kind of Man (1946)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Passage to Marseille (1944)

Between Two Worlds (1944)

Make Your Own Bed (1944)

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

Air Force (1943)

Assistant. crew chief [Cpl. Weinberg]

This Is the Army (1943)

Maxie Twardofsky

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Wings for the Eagle (1942)

Juke Girl (1942)

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

My Sister Eileen (1942)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Nicholas Pappalos

Sergeant York (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)

Gregor Propotkin

Affectionately Yours (1941)

They Drive by Night (1940)

George Rondolos

Saturday's Children (1940)

Torrid Zone (1940)

Rosario [La Mata]

City for Conquest (1940)

Music in My Heart (1940)

The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)

Calling All Husbands (1940)

Oscar Armstrong

River's End (1940)

South of Suez (1940)

East of the River (1940)

They All Come Out (1939)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Balalaika (1939)

What a Mother-in-Law! (1934)

One of the suitors

Cast (Short)

Stars on Horseback (1943)

The Tanks Are Coming (1941)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Air Force - Scene Stills

Here are a few scene stills from Warner Bros' Air Force (1943), starring John Garfield and Gig Young.

Videos

Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Four Saxes And A Clarinet Dramatizing the key component of the title character's celebrated sound, James Stewart (with support from Harry Morgan, Charles Drake and George Tobias), after losing a trumpeter, tumbles to a clarinet solution, validated by his wife (June Allyson), via his own signature composition (Moonlight Serenade), in The Glenn Miller Story, 1954.

City For Conquest (1940) -- (Movie Clip) These Boys Better Be Good James Cagney as trucker Danny dipping his toe back into fighting, Frank McHugh as corner-man Mutt, Donald Crisp the visiting promoter, George Tobias his wing-man, and Kit Guard as the worse-for-wear ex-fighter, early in Warner Bros.’ City For Conquest, co-starring Ann Sheridan and Arthur Kennedy.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Punchinello Celebrating their engagement, with a reprise of a Bob Wright-Chet Forrest original, this is the only musical bit in the picture for Rita Hayworth, as Manhattanite Patricia, because it’s really a vehicle for Tony Martin, as singer Bob, support from Edith Fellows, George Tobias and George Humbert, in Music In My Heart, 1940.

Silk Stockings (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Red Blues Put forward as a deliberately "decadent composition" (a Cole Porter original), and supposedly taking place in the apartment of Ninotchka (Cyd Charisse) back in Moscow, the whole neighborhood takes notice, Eugene Loring choreography, in the MGM musical re-make Silk Stockings, 1957.

Sergeant York (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Cuts Down The Haze At Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1917, enduring ridicule from Sergeant Early (Joseph Sawyer), who can't see why a would-be conscientious objector would be handy with a rifle, Gary Cooper (title character) demonstrates mad skills, in Howard Hawks' Sergeant York, 1941.

Set-Up, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Eggs In The Coffee From the opening scenes, manager Tiny (George Tobias) planning with Danny (Edwin Max) to throw a boxing match, trainer Red (Percy Helton) suggesting they should tell their fighter, in Robert Wise's The Set-Up, 1949.

This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) God Bless America! Kate Smith's titanic delivery of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," recreating her 1938 introduction of the song on her radio show, with a patriotic montage featuring Ronald Reagan and many more in Warner Bros.' Technicolor fundraiser for Army Emergency Relief, This Is The Army, 1943.

This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We're On Our Way! George Murphy as impresario Jerry Jones is practically a stand-in for the real Irving Berlin, playing the composer of Berlin's own "Yip Yip Yaphank," from 1918, leading the cast of his all-soldier musical from Broadway to France, in a famous sequence from the fund-raiser musical This Is the Army, 1943.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Harrigan, That's Me! Composer George M. Cohan (James Cagney, title character), with wife Mary (Joan Leslie), shopping songs in 1890’s New York, George Tobias and Chester Clute passing on one of his biggest hits, then meeting their future partner (Richard Whorf), in Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.

Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Hickam Radio The crew on the "Mary Ann" (John Garfield, Harry Carey, George Tobias, Ward Wood, John Ridgely et al) is headed for Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor when the radio signal is interrupted, in Howard Hawks' Air Force, 1943.

Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) God Bless Mary Ann Conversations in the cockpit (John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy) and cabin (Harry Carey, George Tobias, John Garfield) as the "Mary Ann" leaves San Francisco for Hawaii, in Howard Hawks' Air Force, 1943.

Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Prologue Martial opening credits and prologue in which director Howard Hawks summons the intentions of Abraham Lincoln, in the wartime hit Air Force, 1943, starring John Garfield, Harry Carey and Gig Young.

Yankee Doodle Dandy - (Original Trailer) James Cagney gives an Oscar® winning performance as song-and-dance legend, George M. Cohan, in the musical biography, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

Sergeant York - (Re-issue Trailer) Gary Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar portraying Sergeant York (1941), the pacifist who becomes a war hero.

Mildred Pierce -- (Original Trailer) A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society in Mildred Pierce (1945) starring Joan Crawford in an Oscar-winning role.

This Is The Army - (Original Trailer) Irving Berlin's giant Broadway revue This Is The Army (1943) featuring a galaxy of stars mixing with servicemen.

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