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 and in
The Jungle Book (1967) as Bagheera. About this time Cabot began taking on television work. He was the host of the syndicated
Jack the Ripper series, and he portrayed the Count of Brisemont on
The Three Musketeers and Andrew Crippen on
The Beachcomber. He also appeared in such series as
Gunsmoke (as the title character "Professor Jacoby", an obnoxious, ruthless, unsympathetic photographer in the like-named S2E28's "The Photographer"), plus in
Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956–57), on the detective series
Meet McGraw (1958), in the
western series
Bonanza ("The Spanish Grant", 1960) and
Pony Express ("The Story of Julesburg", 1960),
The Red Skelton Show (various roles 1961–1971), and as an affable demon in
The Twilight Zone ("
A Nice Place to Visit," 1960), Season 1 Episode 28, which aired on 4/14/1960. Cabot had a two-year period as one of the three leads as college professor Dr. Carl Hyatt on the detective show
Checkmate (1960–1962). As
Checkmate fit into the CBS Saturday schedule, Cabot appeared as Eric Whitaker in the 1960 episode "Five O'Clock Friday" on the
ABC adventure series,
The Islanders. Cabot was a regular panellist on the television game show
Stump the Stars. He appeared on the
NBC interview programme ''
Here's Hollywood. In 1964, he hosted the television series Suspense
and voiced or narrated a few other film and television projects. Cabot appeared in another Christmas project, the television film The City That Forgot About Christmas
(1974), and narrated two more Pooh
projects, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too!
and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
. He also released an album of spoken recitations of songs by Bob Dylan, as Sebastian Cabot, actor/Bob Dylan, poet
, in 1967. Two tracks from this album appear on the Rhino Records compilation Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing Off''. On Broadway, Cabot portrayed Buckram in
Love for Love (1947). == Death ==