American Actor. Noble, whose acting career spanned seven decades, will best remembered for his role as the absent-minded Governor Eugene Gatlin on the hit ABC-TV sitcom 'Benson' from 1979 to 1986. He studied drama and engineering at Southern Methodist University but left to join the Navy during World War II. After the war, he studied acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. He made his Broadway debut in a 1949 production of the comedy 'The Velvet Glove' and went on to appear in several more Broadway shows. 1951, he met actress Carolyn Coates, in Worchester, Mass., where they were co-starring in 'Pygmalion'. The couple, who married five years later, appeared in many plays together, among them 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Long Day’s Journey into Night', 'The Night of the Iguana', 'The Three Sisters', 'A Delicate Balance' and 'A Scent of Flowers'. On television, Noble had recurring roles in several soap operas, among them 'The Brighter Day', 'As the World Turns', 'One Life to Live', 'A World Apart' and 'The Doctors' and appeared in several other series, including 'McCloud', 'Starsky and Hutch', 'Hart to Hart', 'The Love Boat', 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King', 'First Impressions', 'Perfect Strangers', 'Law & Order' and 'The Royal'. Among films he appeared in were 'The Sporting Club' (1971), '1776: The Movie' (1972), 'Death Play' (1976), 'Being There' (1979), 'Airplane II: The Sequel' (1982), 'Chances Are' (1989) and 'Fake' (2011). Noble died on the eleventh anniversary of his wife's passing, one week after suffering a stroke.
American Actor. Noble, whose acting career spanned seven decades, will best remembered for his role as the absent-minded Governor Eugene Gatlin on the hit ABC-TV sitcom 'Benson' from 1979 to 1986. He studied drama and engineering at Southern Methodist University but left to join the Navy during World War II. After the war, he studied acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. He made his Broadway debut in a 1949 production of the comedy 'The Velvet Glove' and went on to appear in several more Broadway shows. 1951, he met actress Carolyn Coates, in Worchester, Mass., where they were co-starring in 'Pygmalion'. The couple, who married five years later, appeared in many plays together, among them 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Long Day’s Journey into Night', 'The Night of the Iguana', 'The Three Sisters', 'A Delicate Balance' and 'A Scent of Flowers'. On television, Noble had recurring roles in several soap operas, among them 'The Brighter Day', 'As the World Turns', 'One Life to Live', 'A World Apart' and 'The Doctors' and appeared in several other series, including 'McCloud', 'Starsky and Hutch', 'Hart to Hart', 'The Love Boat', 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King', 'First Impressions', 'Perfect Strangers', 'Law & Order' and 'The Royal'. Among films he appeared in were 'The Sporting Club' (1971), '1776: The Movie' (1972), 'Death Play' (1976), 'Being There' (1979), 'Airplane II: The Sequel' (1982), 'Chances Are' (1989) and 'Fake' (2011). Noble died on the eleventh anniversary of his wife's passing, one week after suffering a stroke.
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