Abner Biberman

Highest Rated: 100% Winchester '73 (1950)

Lowest Rated: 60% Elephant Walk (1954)

Birthday: Apr 1, 1909

Birthplace: Not Available

Born in Milwaukee, Abner Biberman migrated to Philadelphia, where after a he launched his acting career at the Hedgerow Theatre. Biberman wrote magazine articles and taught acting classes while establishing himself as both an actor and director on Broadway. His shifty eyes and disreputable appearance enabled Biberman to play villains of all nations: an Italian gangster in His Girl Friday (1940) an East Indian fanatic in Gunga Din (1939), a hostile Native American in any number of films. From the mid-1940s onward, Biberman was drama coach at Universal Pictures, which led to his first film directorial assignment, The Looters (1955). While Abner Biberman's theatrical films were mostly routine melodramas, his TV work embraced such prestige programs as The Twilight Zone, Ben Casey and Ironside. Abner Biberman was the husband of actress Joanna Barnes.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Price Of Fear	Director	—	2013
No Score Yet	Gun for a Coward	Director	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Night Runner	Director	—	1957
No Score Yet	Knock on Wood	Papinek	—	1954
60%	Elephant Walk	Dr. Pereira	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Golden Mistress	Carl Dexter Director	—	1954
65%	Viva Zapata!	Captain	—	1952
100%	Winchester '73	Latigo Means	—	1950
80%	Back to Bataan	Japanese Captain/Japanese Diplomat	—	1945
No Score Yet	Salome, Where She Danced	Dr. Ling	—	1945
100%	Captain Kidd	Blades	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Keys of the Kingdom	Bandit Captain	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Malta	—	1944
No Score Yet	Dragon Seed	Capt. Yasuda	—	1944
No Score Yet	Behind the Rising Sun	Inspector	—	1943
No Score Yet	Submarine Alert	Cmdr. Toyo	—	1943
No Score Yet	Bombardier	Japanese Sergeant (uncredited)	—	1943
90%	The Leopard Man	Charlie How-Come	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Monster and the Girl	Gregory	—	1941
No Score Yet	South of Pago Pago	Ferro	—	1940
98%	His Girl Friday	Diamond Louie	—	1940
67%	Zanzibar	Aba	—	1940
No Score Yet	Balalaika	Leo	—	1939
82%	Another Thin Man	Dum Dum	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Rains Came	John the Baptist	—	1939
No Score Yet	Each Dawn I Die	Shake Edwards	—	1939
No Score Yet	Panama Patrol	Arlie Johnson	—	1939
92%	Gunga Din	Chota	—	1939
100%	The Roaring Twenties	Lefty	—	1939
No Score Yet	Panama Lady	Elisha	—	1939

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Outer Limits 1995-2002	Director	2002
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Director Sal Reiger Denby	1973 1970 1969 1968
90%	Gilligan's Island 1964-1967	Director	1965
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Director	1965
No Score Yet	The Fugitive 1963-1967	Director	1965 1964
No Score Yet	Ben Casey 1961-1966	Director	1964 1962 1961
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Director	1964 1963 1962 1960
No Score Yet	Zane Grey Theatre 1956-1961	Director	1960
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Director	1957

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Abner Biberman

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