Career
As a prizefighter he once fought "Packy East", later known as Bob Hope. He first gained international prominence as the villainous sulky driver, "Flea-Flit Dryer", in the film Home in Indiana, opposite Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Lon McAllister, June Haver, and Jeanne Crain. Numerous other motion pictures include his portrayal of a middle-weight champ in Ex-Champ, prison guard with Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!, a gambler in Guys and Dolls, police officer Noble in The Big Chase, and deputy sheriff with Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou.
In the first and sixth episodes of Disney"s World of Color series, Gallegher, Chissell played the Irish fight referee and jailer opposite Edmund O"Brien.
He was croupier at the roulette game in "Tiger by the Tail", one of the Gunsmoke episodes. Life of Riley, Dragnet, and Playhouse 90 and People"s Court were other series Chissell worked in.
He also was politically active and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1953 and for the 40th State Assembly District in 1962. Other credits include, The Quiet Manitoba, The Road to Rio and other Bob Hope movies and 20 of Hope"s television specials.
Noble "Kid" Chissell was born Noble Chisman, son of Thomas Farbri Chisman (1880–1958) and Cora Esther Laporte (1884–1962), in Indianapolis in 1905.
Noble was the first cousin twice removed on his mother"s side of the noted Irish poet/balladeer, Johnny Tom Gleeson.
