Paul Birch

Paul Birch (born January 13, 1912, Atmore, Alabama – died May 24, 1969, St. George's, Grenada) was an American actor of stage and film. Birch was born Paul Smith in Atmore, Alabama. He was a veteran of 39 movies, 50 stage dramas and a number of television shows including the Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951). In the late 1950s he starred, along with William Campbell, in the syndicated Canadian series Cannonball (1958), a half-hour drama/adventure show about truckers. He was the original "Marlboro Man" in TV commercials and played both Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee in several historical plays. He started out as the first of the original members of the Pasadena Playhouse and his stage work included The Caine Mutiny. He also had a recurring role as Captain Carpenter, the boss of Lt. Phillip Gerard in The Fugitive starring David Janssen. He starred in some low-budget science-fiction films in the 1950s, including The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Not of This Earth (1957) and the cult classic Queen of Outer Space (1958). Birch also had small roles in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1967). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Birch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Atmore, Alabama, USA, 1912-01-13

Died: 1969-05-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	Adventure	First Mate (uncredited)	62
2	1952	Assignment: Paris	Colonel Mannix (uncredited)	55
3	1953	The War of the Worlds	Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)	68
4	1954	Ride Clear of Diablo	Fred Kenyon	58
5	1954	Cattle Queen of Montana	Col. Carrington	56
6	1955	Man Without a Star	Mark Toliver	65
7	1955	Strange Lady in Town	Sheriff	45
8	1955	Five Guns West	J.C. Haggard	42
9	1955	The Beast with a Million Eyes	Allan Kelley	38
10	1955	Apache Woman	Sherrif	47
11	1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Police Lieutenant (uncredited)	75
12	1955	Day the World Ended	Jim Madison	49
13	1955	The Fighting Chance	Auctioneer	40
14	1956	When Gangland Strikes	Sheriff Mack McBride	0
15	1956	The White Squaw		63
16	1956	Everything But the Truth	Sen. Winter	82
17	1956	Gun for a Coward	Andy Niven	56
18	1957	The 27th Day	Admiral	63
19	1957	Not of This Earth	Paul Johnson	56
20	1957	The Tattered Dress	Prosecutor Frank Mitchell	56
21	1957	The Spirit of St. Louis	Blythe (uncredited)	67
22	1957	The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm	Banker	0
23	1957	Joe Dakota	Frank Weaver	56
24	1958	The World Was His Jury	Martin Ranker	59
25	1958	Gunman's Walk	Bob Selkirk	67
26	1958	Wild Heritage	Jake Breslin	45
27	1958	The Gun Runners	Sy Phillips	60
28	1958	Queen of Outer Space	Prof. Konrad	48
29	1959	Gunmen from Laredo	Marshal Matt Crawford	47
30	1960	Too Soon to Love		38
31	1960	Portrait in Black	Detective lieutenant	57
32	1961	Two Rode Together	Judge Edward Purcell	64
33	1962	A Public Affair	Malcomb Hardy	0
34	1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Mayor Winder	78
35	1963	The Raiders	Paul King	45
36	1965	The Glory Guys	Commanding General	65
37	1966	Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round	Bill Simpson (uncredited)	52
38	1967	A Covenant with Death	Governor	50
39	1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Mr. Fee	50
40	1967	Counterpoint		62

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Big George	50
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Doctor	63
3	1950	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	Police Desk Sergeant	69
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Secretary of Agriculture	86
5	1952	Hopalong Cassidy		52
6	1952	Death Valley Days	Mike Walsh	64
7	1952	Death Valley Days	Jim Davidson	64
8	1953	I Led Three Lives		0
9	1953	You Are There		57
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Boss	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Jessie	66
12	1955	Cheyenne		58
13	1955	Navy Log		45
14	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
15	1955	Crossroads	Chief Crane	50
16	1956	Telephone Time		63
17	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff Cutler	55
18	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff	55
19	1957	Panic!		0
20	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
21	1957	Sugarfoot	Emmett Clark	48
22	1957	Wagon Train	Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant	63
23	1957	Wagon Train	Sam Benson	63
24	1957	M Squad	Police Lt. Ruddy	52
25	1957	Perry Mason	Security Officer Frank Crawford	77
26	1957	Maverick		68
27	1957	Trackdown		64
28	1957	The Court of Last Resort		0
29	1958	Sea Hunt		66
30	1958	Bronco		52
31	1958	The Texan		55
32	1958	Cannonball	"Cannonball" Mike Malone	50
33	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
34	1959	Black Saddle	Mr. Simpson	60
35	1959	Tightrope		55
36	1959	Riverboat	Sergeant Major Carmody	62
37	1959	The Alaskans		55
38	1959	Hawaiian Eye		52
39	1960	The Tall Man		63
40	1961	Cain's Hundred	Sheriff Rainey	47
41	1962	Sam Benedict		60
42	1962	The Virginian	Sheriff Halsey	65
43	1962	The Virginian	Carl Bruner	65
44	1962	The Virginian	Ben Carter	65
45	1962	The Virginian	John Carver	65
46	1962	The Virginian	Mack Lewis	65
47	1962	General Electric True		0
48	1963	Arrest and Trial		77
49	1963	The Fugitive	Police Captain Carpenter	72
50	1963	The Fugitive		72
51	1965	The John Forsythe Show		50

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