Raised in White Plains, New York, as the son of Frank Ober, he attended The Peddie School and spent two years at Princeton before leaving to work in advertising and then pursue acting. His stage debut came in 1931 as Tom Faulkner in Technique, followed by a Broadway turn in Lawrence Riley’s Personal Appearance (1934), and the same year he entered film with Chloe, Love Is Calling You. Ober became k…
