Gail Kobe

Gail Kobe (born Gabriella Kieliszewski; March 19, 1932 Kobe had polio as a child and began dancing as a form of therapy. A heart murmur that she developed in her high school years caused her to cease dancing.

Early career 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.

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, 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, Bewitched, 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 Francoise.

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).

Later career 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 drama 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.

Honors In 2008, a Golden Palm Star on the Walk of Stars was dedicated in Kobe's honor.

Death For the last two years of her life, the twice-married Kobe resided at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. She died on August 1, 2013, aged 81, from undisclosed causes.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1955 East of Eden Student Uncredited1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Jessie Bridges Season 2 Episode 9: "Crack of Doom"1956 The Ten Commandments Pretty Slave Girl 1956 Highway Patrol Susan Keefe Season 2 Episode 1: "The Search"1956–1958 Cheyenne Della Sevier (1) Season 2 Episode 4: "The Bounty Killers" (1956)(2) Season 3 Episode 16: "The Long Search" (1958) 1957–1958 Trackdown (1) Beth Waislip(2) (3) (4) (5) Penny Adams(6) Cindy (1) Season 1 Episode 1: "The Marple Brothers" (1957)(2) Season 1 Episode 23: "The House" (1958)(3) Season 1 Episode 24: "The Boy" (1958)(4) Season 1 Episode 25: "The Pueblo Kid" (1958)(5) Season 1 Episode 29: "The Jailbreak" (1958)(6) Season 2 Episode 12: "Sunday's Child" (1958)1957–1959 Whirlybirds (1) Mary(2) Alice (1) Season 1 Episode 4: "Fire Flight" (1957)(2) Season 3 Episode 16: "In Ways Mysterious" (1959)1958 Gunsmoke in Tucson Katy Porter 1958–1964 Perry Mason (1) Margo, Drake's Secretary(2) Gertrude Lewis (1) Season 1 Episode 20: "The Case of the Lonely Heiress" (1958)(2) Season 7 Episode 14: "The Case of the Accosted Accountant" (1964)1958–1969 Gunsmoke (1) Polly Troyman(2) Bar Girl Madge(3) Ellie Decker (1) Season 3 Episode 25: "Dirt" (1958)(2) Season 12 Episode 13: "The Moonstone" (1966)(3) Season 14 Episode 23: "The Intruder" (1969)1959 Wagon Train Erika Hennepin Season 2 Episode 28: "The Vincent Eaglewood Story"1959 Frontier Doctor Pauline Lanyon Episode: "Superstition Mountain"1959 Mackenzie's Raiders Wanda West Season 1 Episode 35: "Captured in Mexico"1960 Tales of Wells Fargo Kate Brown Season 4 Episode 25: "The Late Mayor Brown"1960–1964 The Twilight Zone (1) Sally(2) Jessica Connelly(3) Leah Maitland (1) Season 1 Episode 23: "A World of Difference" (1960)(2) Season 4 Episode 1: "In His Image" (1963)(3) Season 5 Episode 16: "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (1964)1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Virginia Morrison Carlin Season 1 Episode 9: "The Black Curtain"1962 Maverick Theodora Rush Season 5 Episode 10: "Marshal Maverick"1962–1963 Rawhide (1) Dr. Louise Amadon(2) Agnes Quintle (1) Season 4 Episode 25: "A Woman's Place" (1962)(2) Season 5 Episode 20: "Incident of Judgment Day" (1963)1962–1963 Laramie (1) Lottie Harris(2) Madge (1) Season 4 Episode 12: "Gun Duel" (1962)(2) Season 4 Episode 20: "The Dispossessed" (1963)1963 The Virginian Ruth Ferris Season 2 Episode 9: "Run Quiet"1963 Combat! Francois Season 1 Episode 28: "The Sniper"1963 Have Gun – Will Travel Francine Season 6 Episode 30: "Two Plus One" 1963 77 Sunset Strip Diana Carmichael Season 6 Episode 12: "The Fumble"1964 The Outer Limits (1) Janet Doweling(2) Janet Lane (1) Season 1 Episode 22: "Specimen: Unknown"(2) Season 2 Episode 12: "Keeper of the Purple Twilight"1967 Mission: Impossible Lisa Goren Season 1 Episode 18: "The Trial"1967 Hogan's Heroes Lilli von Scheider Season 3 Episode 3: "D-Day at Stalag 13"1968 The Mod Squad Donna Season 1 Episode 8: "The Price of Terror"1969 Bewitched Evelyn Tucker Season 5 Episode 22: "Going Ape"1969–1974 Mannix (1) Katherine Martin(2) Ginny Freeman (1) Season 2 Episode 25: "To Catch a Rabbit" (1969)(2) Season 8 Episode 12: "A Choice of Victims" (1974)