George Gobel Autographs
George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. He was best known as the star of his own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from 1954 to 1959 and on CBS from 1959 to 1960 (alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program). He was also a familiar panelist on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares.
He was born George Leslie Goebel in Chicago on May 20, 1919, the only child of Hermann and Lillian (MacDonald) Goebel. His father, Hermann Goebel, who was then working as a butcher and grocer, had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s with his parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, Lillian (MacDonald) Goebel, was a native of Illinois, as was her mother, while Lillian's father, a tugboat captain, had immigrated from Scotland.
Even before his 1937 graduation from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Chicago, Gobel was a country music singer on the National Barn Dance on Chicago's WLS radio and later on KMOX in St. Louis. In 1942, Gobel married his high-school sweetheart, Alice Rose Humecki. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and served as a flight instructor in AT-9 aircraft at Altus, Oklahoma, and later in B-26 Marauder bombers at Frederick, Oklahoma. In a 1969 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Gobel joked about his stateside wartime service: "There was not one Japanese aircraft that got past Tulsa." He resumed his career as an entertainer after the war, although he decided to focus predominantly on comedy rather than just singing.
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Traded items with a signature of George Gobel
The most expensive item with a signature of George Gobel (GEORGE GOBEL (signed) High School Yearbook w/SCARCE Original Spelling SIGNATURE) was sold in June 2025 for $249.99 while the cheapest item (GEORGE GOBEL - THOMAS RUISINGER-VINTAGE IN PERSON HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS.) found a new owner for $0.99 in October 2011. The month with the most items sold (4) was May 2025 with an average selling price of $48.72 for an autographed item of George Gobel. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $249.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was October 2011. In average, an autographed item from George Gobel is worth $10.99.
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