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Gabe Kaplan: Biography

Gabe Kaplan

Birth Name: Gabriel Kaplan
Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/31/1945, Aries
Profession: Actor; comedian; poker player

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Gabe Kaplan Fast Facts:

Originally aspired to become a Major League baseball player.
Began his stand-up career by performing in small nightclubs, coffee houses and Playboy clubs.
Big break came during the early 1970s, when he made five appearances on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.
Best-known for the role of Gabe Kotter, teacher of a class of underachievers, on Welcome Back, Kotter, a series he cocreated based on his own high-school experiences.
An avid poker player, he made his first appearance at the World Series of Poker in 1978.
Biggest poker win came in July of 2004, as he placed third in a World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em event, netting more than $250,000.

Gabe Kaplan Relationships:
Rachel Kaplan - Daughter
Charles Kaplan - Father
Dorothy Kaplan - Mother

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Welcome Back Kotter, Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Gabe Kaplan, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Robert Hegyes ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images

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