Gail Kobe obit

R.I.P. Gail Kobe

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Film and television actress and producer Gail Kobe died yesterday at the age of 82. Her first major film was Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments in 1956. She went on to appear in dozens of TV shows throughout her career, earning an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Dr. Anne Warner on the 1960s TV series Dr. Kildare. Her other TV credits include soaps Peyton Place and Bright Promise. She also starred in such TV classics The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, Bewitched, Hogan’s Heroes, The Mod Squad, Mission Impossible, Whirlybirds and The Outer Limits and appeared in over 50 Westerns, including, Rawhide, The Virginian, Maverick, Daniel Boone and Gunsmoke. She moved into producing daytime dramas during the 1970s and 80s 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. For the past two years, she resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund Home, where she was very active at Channel 22, organizing the show We’ve Got Mail, among other Fund activities.

Kobe portrayed Penny Adams on the TV series Trackdown. She appeared on the Alcoa Theatre in a 1958 episode titled "Disappearance" starring Jack Lemmon and Joan Blackman. In 1965 she portrayed Doris Schuster on TV's Peyton Place. She also appeared on daytime television in the NBC serial Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–1972).

During the 1950s and 1960s, Kobe made guest appearances on Highway Patrol ("The Search"), The O. Henry Playhouse ("The Guilty Party"), The Californians, The Rebel, Mackenzie's Raiders, Blue Light, Felony Squad, Ironside, The Outer Limits, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Fugitive, Bourbon Street Beat, Maverick, M Squad (four episodes), Whirlybirds, Perry Mason, Hogan's Heroes, The Twilight Zone ("In His Image", "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross", "A World of Difference"), Dr. Kildare, Empire, Gunsmoke (S3E25 "Dirt", S12E13 "The Moonstone" and S14E23 "The Intruder"), Cheyenne, Daniel Boone, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Mod Squad, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Mannix. In 1962, she portrayed Dr. Louise Amadon in the episode "A Woman's Place" on Rawhide, about a woman doctor's struggles against stereotypes in the Old West. In 1963 she appeared in Combat! as Francois.

On February 17, 1959, Kobe was cast in the episode "Disaster Town" of the series Rescue 8 in the role of Ellen Mason, a mother looking for her son in a western ghost town.

In the series, Laramie, Kobe played a saloon girl in the episode "Gun Duel" (aired December 25, 1962).

Kobe began to work behind the camera as supervising producer and associate producer on such daytime programs as CBS's The Edge of Night and NBC's Return to Peyton Place. From 1981 to 1982, its final year on the air, Kobe became executive producer of the NBC soap opera, Texas. From 1983 to May 1986, she was the executive producer of CBS's Guiding Light (for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award) and then served as a producer on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful from its debut in 1987 through the early 1990s.

Kobe taught at San Fernando Valley State College.

Kobe was a member of St. Louis Church. She volunteered many hours to Eisenhower Medical Center and the Palm Springs Art Museum while she lived in Palm Springs. While she resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund Home in Woodland Hills, California, she organized the program, We've Got Mail, which airs on cable Channel 22.

Filmography

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1955    East of Eden    Student            Uncredited

1956    The Ten Commandments           Pretty Slave Girl        

1956            Highway Patrol            Susan Keefe            Episode: "The Search"

1957-1958            Trackdown      Penny Adams / Cindy / Beth Waislip            6 episodes

1958            Gunsmoke      Polly Troyman            Season 3, Episode 25, "Dirt"

1958            Gunsmoke in Tucson            Katy Porter  

1958-1964            Perry Mason            Gertrude Lewis / Margo - Drake's Secretary            2 episodes

1960    Tales of Wells Fargo            Kate Brown            Episode: "The Late Mayor Brown"

1960    The Twilight Zone            Sally            Season 1, Episode 23, "A World of Difference"

1963    The Virginian            Ruth Ferris            Episode: "Run Quiet"

1963            Combat!            Francois           Season 1, Episode 28, the Sniper

1963    The Twilight Zone            Jessica Connelly            Season 4, Episode 4, "In His Image"

1964    The Twilight Zone            Leah Maitland            Season 5, Episode 16, "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

1964    The Outer Limits            Janet Doweling            Season 1, Episode 22, "Specimen: Unknown"

1964    The Outer Limits            Janet Lane     Season 2, Episode 12, "Keeper of the Purple Twilight"

1966            Gunsmoke      Bar Girl Madge Season 12, Episode 13, "The Moonstone"

1968    The Mod Squad            Donna            Season 1, Episode 8, "The Price of Terror"

1969            Bewitched       Evelyn Tucker Season 5, Episode 22, "Going Ape"

1969            Gunsmoke      Ellie Decker Season 14, Episode 23, "The Intruder"