Gail Kobe

Gail Kobe
Credits
Role	Evelyn Tucker
Biographical Information
Birth Name	Gabriella Joyce Kobe
Birthdate	March 19, 1932
Birthplace	Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Death Date	August 1, 2013 (age 81)
Death Place	Woodland Hills, California, United States

Gail Kobe portrayed client Evelyn Tucker in the fifth season episode, "Going Ape" (1969).

Biography

Gail Kobe was an American actress and producer. She was born Gabriella Joyce Kobe on March 19, 1932 in Hamtramck, Michigan, and the younger child of Benjamin and Theresa Kieliszewski, who later Americanized their surname.

Kobe had polio as a child and began dancing as a form of therapy. She graduated from Hamtramck High School and, later, from UCLA earning a fine arts degree in theatre and dance. A heart murmur that she developed in her high school years caused her to cease dancing. She was a magazine model before she became an actress.

Her first uncredited film appearance was in Elia Kazan's 1955 East of Eden, and her first credited film role was a small part in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. Gail Kobe's only other film credit was in Thomas Carr's 1958 Gunsmoke in Tucson.

Gail Kobe worked extensively as a guest star and played minor roles in television series, beginning in February 1956 with a supporting role in the Dragnet episode, "The Big Child" (season five, episode twenty-three). During the second half of the 1950s, the 1960s, and until the mid-1970s, she was credited on over seventy series, including Highway Patrol, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Studio 57, Schlitz Playhouse, State Troopers, The Thin Man, Cheyenne, Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre, Alcoa Theatre, Trackdown, The David Niven Show, Mike Hammer, Rawhide, Laramie, The Untouchables, The Fugitive, The Virginian, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare, The Outer Limits, Tarzan, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, The Felony Squad, Ironside, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, Bright Promise, Young Dr. Kildare, Mannix and Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

She was best known for her recurring role as Doris Schuster on the television series Peyton Place (1965-1966).

Her last television appearance was in 1975, in Paul Wendkos's television movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring Elizabeth Montgomery.

She moved into producing daytime dramas during the 1970s and 1980s with credits including Days of Our Lives, Texas, Another World, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Guiding Light, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1985.

Gail Kobe married Richard I. Kramer on April 26, 1957. They divorced. She married Edward S. Lees on December 4, 1971. They divorced in August of 1972.

Gail Kobe died on August 1, 2013 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 81.

Sources

• Gail Kobe on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on January 27, 2025. Updated on April 16, 2025.
• Gail Kobe on Wikipedia. Retrieved on April 16, 2025.