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Looking for reviews of Dan Tobin movies? Cinafilm has a total of 814 reviews across 12 movies.
Movies starring Dan Tobin have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
The Big Clock - released in 1948 - is Dan Tobin's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 50 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dan Tobin is Dream Wife - released in 1953 - with a score of 56% based on 14 reviews.
Dan Tobin (October 19, 1910 – November 26, 1982) was an American supporting actor on the stage, in films and on television. He generally played gentle, urbane, rather fussy, sometimes obsequious and shifty characters, often with a concealed edge of malice.
Tobin acted with a touring troupe in England. After an impresario saw him in Ah, Wilderness!, he gained a role in Behind Your Back at the Strand.
Tobin's most memorable roles were as the overbearing secretary, Gerald, in Woman of the Year (1942), and the top-billed scientist in Orson Welles's innovative Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot, The Fountain of Youth, filmed in 1956 and televised once two years later as an installment of NBC's Colgate Theatre.
Tobin also played as Alexander "Sandy" Lord in the original Broadway production of Phillip Barry's The Philadelphia Story, thus starting his career on stage in 1939. His work on Broadway included American Holiday (1939).
On television, Tobin was a regular on I Married Joan, My Favorite Husband, and Where Were You?
The Internet Movie Database lists 96 television and film acting roles for Tobin over a career spanning from 1939 to 1977. He became a regular during the final season of Perry Mason as the proprietor of "Clay's Grill". He had made a prior appearance in 1964 as Dickens the butler in "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor.
Dan Tobin has acted in films with Cary Grant, Bess Flowers, Myrna Loy and Ray Milland.
Dan Tobin has worked with these film directors: Orson Welles, Richard Brooks, George Stevens and Daniel Mann.
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