Philip Ober

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Fort Payne, Alabama, USA

Born

March 23, 1902

Died

September 13, 1982

Filmography

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Assignment To Kill (1969)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

The Ugly American (1963)

Go Naked in the World (1961)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Photos & Videos

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Come Back, Little Sheba (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Long Time Between Drinks

Facts Of Life, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Just The Six Of Us

Family & Companions

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Jane Westover

Wife

Divorced.

Vivian Vance

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Assignment To Kill (1969)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

The Ugly American (1963)

Go Naked in the World (1961)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Beloved Infidel (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

Lester Townsend

The Mating Game (1959)

Wendell Burnshaw

Ten North Frederick (1958)

District Attorney Lloyd Williams

The High Cost of Loving (1958)

Torpedo Run (1958)

Adm. Samuel Setton

Escapade in Japan (1957)

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)

Broken Lance (1954)

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)

The Clown (1953)

Ralph Z. Henderson

Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)

Editor Anderson

Scandal at Scourie (1953)

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Capt. Dana Holmes

The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)

Washington Story (1952)

Gilbert Nunnally

The Unknown Man (1951)

The Magnificent Yankee (1951)

Never a Dull Moment (1950)

The Secret Fury (1950)

Chloe Love Is Calling You (1934)

Life Events

Videos

Come Back, Little Sheba (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Long Time Between Drinks The first scene away from home, Lola (Shirley Booth) joins Doc (Burt Lancaster) marking his first anniversary at what is, in AA parlance, an open meeting, guests allowed, Philip Ober as "Ed," leading the group, in Come Back, Little Sheba, 1953, from the William Inge play.

Facts Of Life, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Just The Six Of Us After a prologue in which she narrated meeting with Bob Hope for a secret tryst, the title song and credits, then California housewife Lucille Ball further introduces Hope, Louis Nye the dentist, Philip Ober, Marianne Stewart, Ruth Hussey, and Don DeFore as her husband, in The Facts Of Life, 1960.

North By Northwest (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Take Me To The United Nations With his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) at the Plaza, Thornhill (Cary Grant), evades the same thugs (Adam Williams, Robert Allenstein) who abducted him, then races to Alfred Hitchcock’s mocked-up U-N, unhappy to learn that Townsend (Philip Ober) isn’t James Mason, in North By Northwest, 1959.

Washington Story -- (Movie Clip) More Than A Hunch Columnist Nunnally (Philip Ober) buttonholes reporter Alice (Patricia Neal) who is shadowing Congressman Gresham (Van Johnson) and senior colleague Birch (Louis Calhern) in Washington Story, 1952, directed by Robert Pirosh.

Washington Story -- (Movie Clip) Open, Wide-Eyed Patricia Neal (as reporter Alice) meets columnist Nunnally (Philip Ober), with location shooting by John Alton, in the opening to MGM's love letter to Congress, Washington Story, 1952, also staring Van Johnson.

North By Northwest - (Original Trailer) An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) starring Cary Grant.

North By Northwest -- (Movie Trailer) Hitchcock Tour Alfred Hitchcock with one of his signature personal invitations, the theatrical trailer for North By Northwest, 1959, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

From Here to Eternity -- (Original Trailer) Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II in From Here to Eternity (1953) starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr & Frank Sinatra.

Companions

Jane Westover

Wife

Divorced.

Vivian Vance

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Bibliography

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