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Gabe Kaplan

Age

Birthday

Mar. 31st, 1945

Born in

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Height

5' 11 1/2

Gabe Kaplan's Main TV Roles

Main Movie Roles

2007 - The Grand

Guest TV Roles

Show Name

Characters Played

Ep Count

Himself

Paul Cazenovia

Freddy York

BIOGRAPHY:

Gabe Kaplan is best known for portraying teacher Gabe Kotter in the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter", which ran for four years on ABC. More recently, he can be seen on television as a professional poker player and commentator. He made many appearances doing stand up comedy on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

TRIVIA:

Provided coverage on ESPN for the 2002 World Series of Poker.
Financial investor
Provided commentary for the National Heads-Up Poker Challenge on CNBC in 2005.
Worked as a standup comic, a sitcom and film actor, and a disc jockey.
Champion poker player
His experiences as a student in an under-achieving class (like the Sweathogs) in the early 1960s was the basis for _"Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975)_ (qv).

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