Dan Tobin

Dan Tobin

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Dan Tobin was born on Oct 19, 1910 in USA. Dan Tobin's big-screen debut came with Footsteps in the Sand directed by Paul L. Stein in 1939, strarring Roberts - Reporter. Dan Tobin is known for Once Upon a Brothers Grimm directed by Norman Campbell, Dean Jones stars as Jakob Grimm and Paul Sand as Wilhelm Grimm. The upcoming new movie Dan Tobin plays is Once Upon a Brothers Grimm which will be released on Nov 23, 1977.

Dan Tobin's career in Hollywood as a small part supporting player spanned three decades, beginning in 1939. Adding to his slightly shifty appearance -- squinty eyes, high cheekbones and generally sporting a thin moustache -- was a fussy, bumptious manner, which made him ideal typecasting as supercilious, miserly, smugly conceited or obsequious types. Though Tobin's screen personae could be sinister, or at least underhanded, they also often provided comic relief, as, for instance, his somewhat camp, bow-tied employee Gerald Howe in Woman of the Year (1942). On stage, he had his biggest hit in Philip Barry's classic comedy play "The Philadelphia Story" (Broadway (1939-40), playing the part of Alexander 'Sandy' Lord.By the mid-1950's, Tobin had drifted from films towards guest appearances in early anthology series and sitcoms on television. He had a regular spot in the final season of Perry Mason (1957) as Raymond Burr's restaurateur friend Terrance Clay. As the ideal character to be deflated, he was also employed to good comic effect in several episodes of Bewitched (1964) and The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968). Tobin retired from acting in 1977 and died five years later at the age of 72. He had been married to TV scriptwriter Jean Holloway.

  • Birthday

    Oct 19, 1910
  • Place of Birth

    Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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