George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. [1] 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 [1] (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program).

Oct 7, 2023 · George Gobel died on February 24, 1991, at the age of 71, at Encino Hospital in Los Angeles, California . He had been hospitalized for five weeks following surgery on a leg artery, and suffered complications from the operation .

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.

Feb 25, 1991 · George Gobel, the folksy, flat-topped commedian whose 60-year entertainment career spanned Broadway, feature films and TV, died Sunday from complications...

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.

Gobel, George Leslie (b. 20 May 1919 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 24 February 1991 in Encino, California), comic performer, monologist, and musician who rose to fame during the 1950s as the host of a prime-time television comedy-variety hour. Gobel was born George Leslie Goebel.

Feb 25, 1991 · George Gobel, the folksy, flat-topped commedian whose 60-year entertainment career spanned Broadway, feature films and TV, died Sunday from complications stemming from arterial bypass surgery. He was 71.

Dec 21, 1989 · Famous for: the three seasons, 1954-57, of 'The George Gobel Show.' In recent years: Gobel did two movies, 'The Birds and the Bees' and 'I Married a Woman' and guest-starred on TV.

Those immortal words, first uttered by George Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Eve in 1776, were repeated last month when George Gobel received word he was the TV hit of the Republican National Convention.

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"...