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George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. 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 (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program).He was also a familiar panelist on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares.
George Gobel. Actor: Ellie. Squat, easygoing, crew-cut blond George Gobel was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago, on May 20, 1919. Of Austrian/Scottish descent, his immigrant father, Hermann Goebel, was a butcher and grocer. Following graduating from Chicago's Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1937, the young man won initial Midwest attention singing (billed as "Little Georgie Gobel") on radio. He also toured with country music bands while billed as "The...
Sep 20, 2013 · George Gobel performing a comedy act (1957)
Jul 17, 2020 · Comedian George Gobel appears on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on March 6th, 1969, and jokes about his time in the USAAF during the Second World Wa...
Feb 25, 1991 · George Gobel, the sad-eyed comic with the flat-top haircut whose battles with his television wife, "Spooky Old Alice," added a dimension to domestic warfare in the 1950s, died Sunday.
George Gobel. Actor: Ellie. Squat, easygoing, crew-cut blond George Gobel was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago, on May 20, 1919. Of Austrian/Scottish descent, his immigrant father, Hermann Goebel, was a butcher and grocer. Following graduating from Chicago's Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1937, the young man won initial Midwest attention singing (billed as "Little Georgie Gobel") on radio. He also toured with country music bands while billed as "The...
Feb 25, 1991 · Gobel made his Broadway debut in 1961 in a musical adaptation of George Abbot's 'Three Men on a Horse.' He also toured the United States in two Neil Simon comedies, 'The Odd Couple' and 'The Last ...
Feb 25, 1991 · George Gobel, the bristle-haired entertainer whose 60-year career encompassed singing on the radio, his own television show and regular appearances as a panelist on the "Hollywood Squares" game ...
Mar 4, 1991 · George Gobel, 71, whose down-to-earth style endeared him to viewers of "The George Gobel Show" in the 1950s and "Hollywood Squares" in the 1970s and '80s, died Feb. 24 in Encino, Calif., of ...
G eorge Gobel was a comic with distinctive sad-eyes and a flattop haircut whose battles with his television wife, "Spooky Old Alice," added a dimension to domestic warfare in the 1950s.. His underplayed, deadpan humor stood in contrast to the other TV comics of the day — such frenetic entertainers as Milton Berle and Red Skelton.
