Beginner's Pluck
As a child, he never read a book. He rarely attended school. But Gabriel was always resourceful. He worked at several jobs before securing work as a breakfast boy at The Shelbourne Hotel. His meeting there, with Maggie Sheridan introduced him to the world of opera, and ultimately changed his life.
She organised for the teenager to go to America, and once there he was tutored, attending a co-ed High School in New York. After a stint in the US Army, Gabriel worked as an actor, and a screenwriter. As a staff writer for Universal Pictures in Hollywood. His screenplay, Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx received a Writer’s Guild of America nomination.
