Abner Biberman
Birthday: Born in 1909-04-01 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Deathday: 1977-06-20
Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Ruthless-looking, he was in demand to portray a wide variety of heavies and foreign nationalities during the Golden Years of Hollywood. He later developed a successful career as a prolific director of episodic TV, spanning wide genres from Gilligan’s Island to Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series). Biberman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, later moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early acting experience as a student at the Tome School for Boys prep school. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania.
TV Credits
Ironside
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When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding....
Hec Ramsey
Character:
Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons....
Sam Benedict
Character:
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series....
Kodiak
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Kodiak is a short lived, half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m Eastern time on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season. The show revolved around the main character of Cal "Kodiak" McKay, an Alaska State Trooper. Kodiak, always accompanied by his Eskimo sidekick Abraham Lincoln Imhook, used his four-wheel drive truck to track down desperate killers through 50,000 miles of Alaska backcountry. The show was broadcast against NBC's mega-hit Sanford and Son. Kodiak coul...
Movie Credits
His Girl Friday
Character: Louie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop....
Gunga Din
Character: Chota
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him....
The Leopard Man
Character: Charlie How-Come
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders....
Winchester '73
Character: Latigo Means
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives....
Elephant Walk
Character: Dr. Pereira
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick...
Betrayal from the East
Character: Yamato
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal....
The Roaring Twenties
Character: Henchman
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere....
Submarine Alert
Character: Commander Toyo
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger....
Back to Bataan
Character: Japanese Captain
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines....
The Monster and the Girl
Character: Gregory - Perry’s Aide (uncredited)
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters....
Viva Zapata!
Character: Captain (uncredited)
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century....
Whispering Ghosts
Character: Mack Wolf
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain....
Broadway
Character: Trado
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s....
Dragon Seed
Character: Capt. Yasuda (uncredited)
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders....
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Maita
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims....
Devil Pays Off
Character: Carlos Castillo-Martinez
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy....
South of Pago Pago
Character: Ferro
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together....
Panama Patrol
Character: Arlie Johnson
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal....
Two-Man Submarine
Character: Gabe Fabian
Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Island in order to produce penicillium, the mold from which the magic drug penicillin is derived....
The Golden Mistress
Character: Carl Dexter
Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the golden idol is a...
Singapore Woman
Character: Singa
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama....
Another Thin Man
Character: 'Dum-Dum'
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate....
Each Dawn I Die
Character: Shake Edwards (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him....
Lady of the Tropics
Character: Wardrobe Buyer
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier....
The Rains Came
Character: John, the Baptist
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague....
Balalaika
Character: Leo Proplinski
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love....
The Gay Vagabond
Character: Ratmar
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business....
Knock on Wood
Character: Maurice Papinek
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls....
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Character: La'oa
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir....
Roaring City
Character: Eddie Paige
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder....
Enemy Agent
Character: Baronoff
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are....
Salome, Where She Danced
Character: Dr. Ling
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines....
South of Tahiti
Character: Tahawa
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold....
The Marines Fly High
Character: Gomez
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant....
This Woman Is Mine
Character: Lamazie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow....
King of the Mounties
Character: Adm. Yamata
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way....
Strange Conquest
Character: Molugi
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor....
The Magnificent Fraud
Character: Ruiz
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator....
Behind the Rising Sun
Character: Inspector
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis....
Bombardier
Character: Japanese Sergeant
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence....
Panama Lady
Character: Elisha
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed....
Soak the Rich
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Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate....
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Attendee at Dance
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself....
Captain Kidd
Character: Theodore Blades (uncredited)
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name....
Zanzibar
Character: Aba
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals....
South to Karanga
Character: Manek Sen
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way....
Girl from Havana
Character: Captain Lazear
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America......
Ski Patrol
Character: Russian Field Commander
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders....