Sebastian Cabot Death
Sebastian passed away on August 22, 1977 at the age of 59 in North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Sebastian's cause of death was stroke.
When did Sebastian Cabot die?
August 22, 1977How did Sebastian Cabot die? What was the cause of death?
StrokeHow old was Sebastian Cabot when died?
59Where did Sebastian Cabot die? What was the location of death?
North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Sebastian Cabot Birthday and Date of Death
Sebastian Cabot was born on July 6, 1918 and died on August 22, 1977. Sebastian was 59 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: July 6, 1918
Date of Death: August 22, 1977
Age at Death: 59
Sebastian Cabot - Biography
Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (6 July 1918 – 22 August 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, Giles French, opposite Brian Keith's character, William "Uncle Bill" Davis, in the CBS-TV sitcom Family Affair (1966–1971). He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film Kismet (1955) and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series Checkmate (1960–1962).
His formal acting career began with a bit part in Foreign Affaires (1935); his first screen credit was in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936). Other British films followed such as Love on the Dole (1941), Pimpernel Smith (also 1941), Old Mother Riley Overseas and Old Mother Riley Detective (both 1943) and They Made Me a Fugitive (1947). In 1946, he portrayed Iago in a condensed short film version of Othello. Post-war, Cabot landed roles in such British films as Third Time Lucky (1949), The Spider and the Fly (1949), as the villainous Fouracada in Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949); he was also in Ivanhoe (1952) and The Love Lottery (1954). He appeared in a couple of international productions, the Spanish-UK-USA Sinbad comedy Babes in Bagdad (1952) and the Italian version of Romeo and Juliet (1954) as Lord Capulet, before moving to the United States, where he worked for Disney on Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956) and as the scheming landlord Jonathan Lyte in Johnny Tremain (1957). In George Pal's production of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (1960) he was Dr. Hillyer who doubts the time traveller's story.
Meanwhile, Cabot had begun to work as a voice actor. In the 1950s he was featured in a radio show called Horizons West, a 13-part radio drama which followed the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and was the voice of Noah in the first recording of Igor Stravinsky's biblical 'musical play' The Flood (1962). He also did voice parts for animated films such as Disney's The Sword In The Stone (1963) as Sir Ector, The Jungle Book (1967) as Bagheera.
He lived in his final years in Deep Cove, in North Saanich, British Columbia, a suburb of Victoria , British Columbia, Canada. Cabot died on 22 August 1977 in a Victoria hospital, after suffering his second stroke in three years. He was cremated, and his ashes were buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
