Morris Ankrum

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor. Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939. Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres. Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.

Known For: Acting

Born: Danville, Illinois, USA, 1896-08-28

Died: 1964-09-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Stand Up and Cheer!	Washington Press Correspondent	49
2	1936	Hopalong Cassidy Returns	Blackie Felton	63
3	1936	Trail Dust	Tex Anderson	40
4	1937	Borderland	Loco	0
5	1937	Hills of Old Wyoming	Andrews	0
6	1937	North of the Rio Grande	Henry Stoneham	60
7	1937	Rustlers' Valley	Glen Randall	60
8	1940	Knights of the Range	Gamecock	0
9	1940	The Showdown	Baron Rendor	60
10	1940	Light of Western Stars	Nat Hayworth	25
11	1940	Buck Benny Rides Again	Second Outlaw	0
12	1940	Cherokee Strip	Hawk Barrett	45
13	1940	Three Men from Texas	Bruce Morgan	63
14	1941	Doomed Caravan	Stephen Westcott	30
15	1941	In Old Colorado	Weiler, Davidson's Foreman	67
16	1941	The Roundup	'Parenthesis'	80
17	1941	Border Vigilantes	Dan Forbes	60
18	1941	Pirates on Horseback	Ace Gibson	0
19	1941	Wide Open Town	Jim Stuart	0
20	1941	This Woman Is Mine	Roussel	37
21	1941	The Bandit Trail	Red Haggerty	65
22	1941	I Wake Up Screaming	Assistant District Attorney	69
23	1941	Road Agent	Big John Morgan	0
24	1942	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Ace Anderson	58
25	1942	Roxie Hart	Martin S. Harrison	68
26	1942	Ten Gentlemen from West Point	Wood	58
27	1942	Tales of Manhattan	Judge	63
28	1942	Tales of Manhattan	Judge Tom Barnes (Robinson sequence)	63
29	1942	The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe	Mr. Graham	57
30	1942	The Omaha Trail	Henchman Job	70
31	1942	Tennessee Johnson	Jefferson Davis	61
32	1942	Time to Kill	Alexander Morny	55
33	1942	Reunion in France	Martin	64
34	1943	Dixie Dugan	Editor	50
35	1943	Let's Face It	Man in Sun Shell Cafe	45
36	1943	Best Foot Forward	Col. Harkrider	60
37	1943	Swing Fever	Dan Conlon	50
38	1944	The Heavenly Body	Dr. Green	57
39	1944	Rationing	Morgan	30
40	1944	Main Street Today	Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)	62
41	1944	Meet the People	Monte Rowland	50
42	1944	Marriage Is a Private Affair	Ed Scofield	52
43	1944	Barbary Coast Gent	Alec Veeder	46
44	1944	Return from Nowhere	Doctor (uncredited)	50
45	1944	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)	66
46	1944	Gentle Annie	Deputy Gansby	52
47	1944	Dark Shadows	Lt. Pat McKay	91
48	1944	The Thin Man Goes Home	Willoughby Peavy	71
49	1945	Fall Guy	District Attorney (uncredited)	80
50	1945	Phantoms, Inc.	Narrator (voice)	55
51	1945	The Hidden Eye	Ferris (henchman)	76
52	1945	Purity Squad	Dr. Adams (uncredited)	70
53	1945	Adventure	Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)	62
54	1946	The Harvey Girls	Rev. Claggett	65
55	1946	The Postman Always Rings Twice	Judge (uncredited)	70
56	1946	The Green Years	Dr. Galbraith	65
57	1946	The Cockeyed Miracle	Dr. Wilson	67
58	1946	Courage of Lassie	Farmer Crews	57
59	1946	Lady in the Lake	Eugene Grayson	60
60	1947	The Mighty McGurk	Fowles	64
61	1947	Little Mister Jim	Col. W.I. Starwell	40
62	1947	The Sea of Grass	A.J. Crane	63
63	1947	Song of the Thin Man	Inspector (uncredited)	68
64	1947	Cynthia	Mr. Phillips, Principal	59
65	1947	Merton of the Movies	Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)	68
66	1947	Desire Me	Hector Martin	57
67	1947	Good News	Dean Griswold	62
68	1947	High Wall	Dr. Stanley Griffin	62
69	1948	Souvenirs of Death	Gangster (uncredited)	65
70	1948	Fighting Back	Robert J. Higby	60
71	1948	The Fabulous Fraud	Blind Girl's Father	50
72	1948	For the Love of Mary	Adm. Walton	58
73	1948	Joan of Arc	Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain	61
74	1949	Bad Men of Tombstone	Mr. Jones	63
75	1949	We Were Strangers	M. Seymour	59
76	1949	Colorado Territory	United States Marshal	70
77	1949	The Fountainhead	Prosecutor (uncredited)	69
78	1950	Chain Lightning	Ed Bostwick	62
79	1950	Borderline	Bill Whittaker	54
80	1950	The Damned Don't Cry	Jim Whitehead	71
81	1950	In a Lonely Place	Lloyd Barnes	76
82	1950	Rocketship X-M	Dr. Ralph Fleming	48
83	1950	Southside 1-1000	Eugene Deane	57
84	1950	Short Grass	Hal Fenton	60
85	1951	The Redhead and The Cowboy	Sheriff	49
86	1951	The Lion Hunters	Tom Forbes	53
87	1951	Fighting Coast Guard	Navy Captain	65
88	1951	Along the Great Divide	Ed Roden	74
89	1951	Tomorrow Is Another Day	Hugh Wagner	65
90	1951	Flight to Mars	Ikron	53
91	1951	My Favorite Spy	Gen. Frazer	60
92	1952	Fort Osage	Arthur Pickett	60
93	1952	Mutiny	Capt. Radford	48
94	1952	Red Planet Mars	Secretary of Defense Sparks	47
95	1952	Son of Ali Baba	Ali Baba	58
96	1952	The Raiders	Thomas Ainsworth	62
97	1952	Because of You	Dr. Travis	57
98	1952	A Star Shall Rise	King Herod	0
99	1952	Hiawatha	Iagoo	0
100	1953	The Man Behind The Gun	Bram Creegan	57
101	1953	Fort Vengeance	Chief Crowfoot	62
102	1953	I Beheld His Glory	Peter	0
103	1953	Invaders from Mars	Col. Fielding	59
104	1953	Arena	Bucky Hillberry	47
105	1953	Devil's Canyon	Ed	48
106	1953	Sky Commando	Gen. W.R. Combs	55
107	1953	Mexican Manhunt	Tip Morgan	58
108	1953	The Moonlighter	Alexander Prince	57
109	1953	Flight Nurse	Interrogation Officer	55
110	1954	Taza, Son of Cochise	Grey Eagle	55
111	1954	Southwest Passage	Dr. Stanton	54
112	1954	Drums Across the River	Chief Ouray	56
113	1954	The Outlaw Stallion	Sheriff	50
114	1954	Apache	Dawson	61
115	1954	Silver Lode	Zachary Evans	62
116	1954	Two Guns and a Badge	Sheriff Jackson	0
117	1954	Cattle Queen of Montana	J.I. 'Pop' Jones	56
118	1954	Three Young Texans	Jeff Blair	52
119	1954	The Steel Cage	Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"	0
120	1954	Vera Cruz	Gen. Ramírez	67
121	1955	The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story	Azar the Shepherd	20
122	1955	Crashout	Head Guard	65
123	1955	Chief Crazy Horse	Red Cloud	56
124	1955	The Silver Star	Charlie Childress	50
125	1955	The Eternal Sea	Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble	64
126	1955	The Last Command		64
127	1955	Duel on the Mississippi	Magistrate (uncredited)	65
128	1955	Tennessee's Partner	Judge Parker	65
129	1955	No Man's Woman	Capt. Hostedder	49
130	1956	Fury at Gunsight Pass	Doc Phillips	60
131	1956	When Gangland Strikes	Leo Fantzler	0
132	1956	Quincannon, Frontier Scout	Col. Harry Conover	44
133	1956	Earth vs. the Flying Saucers	Brig. Gen. John Hanley	60
134	1956	Walk the Proud Land	Gen. Wade	61
135	1956	The Desperados Are in Town	Mr. Rutherford	0
136	1956	Naked Gun	Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)	68
137	1957	Drango	Henry Calder	54
138	1957	Zombies of Mora Tau	Dr. Jonathan Eggert	55
139	1957	Hell's Crossroads	Wheeler	54
140	1957	Kronos	Dr. Albert Stern	56
141	1957	The Giant Claw	Lt. Gen. Edward Considine	48
142	1957	Beginning of the End	Gen. John Hanson	38
143	1957	Omar Khayyam	Sharain's Father	50
144	1958	The Power of the Resurrection	Annas	0
145	1958	Giant from the Unknown	Dr. Frederick Cleveland	40
146	1958	Young and Wild	Police Capt. Egan	35
147	1958	How to Make a Monster	Police Capt. Hancock	56
148	1958	Badman's Country	Mayor Coleman	54
149	1958	Twilight for the Gods	Sea Captain	42
150	1958	Curse of the Faceless Man	Narrator (unconfirmed)	54
151	1958	The Saga of Hemp Brown	Bo Slauter	57
152	1958	Frontier Gun	Andrew Barton	60
153	1958	Tarawa Beachhead	Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)	60
154	1958	From the Earth to the Moon	President Ulysses S. Grant	52
155	1958	Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman	Dr. Carl Jordan	30
156	1961	The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come	Gen. Lew Wallace	40
157	1961	Most Dangerous Man Alive	Capt. Davis	49
158	1962	Tower of London	The Archbishop	60
159	1963	X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes	Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)	66
160	1964	Guns of Diablo	Ray Macklin	53
161	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Cowboy G-Men		53
2	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Warden	63
3	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Mr. Raymond	63
4	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Mr. Mason	63
5	1955	Gunsmoke	Merle	66
6	1957	M Squad	Police Inspector Dean	52
7	1957	Perry Mason	Judge	77
8	1957	Perry Mason	Judge Hoyt	77
9	1957	Maverick	Joshua Haines	68
10	1958	Sea Hunt		66
11	1958	The Rifleman		70
12	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Walter Harwood	62

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