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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 14, 1888
Died
February 27, 1953
Place of Birth
Traver, California, USA
Also Known As
- Paul Causey Hurst
- Paul C. Hurst
Paul Hurst
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect). In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide. Date of Death: 27 February 1953, Hollywood, California (suicide)
Known For
6.4
Jimmy Bagby
The Sun Shines Bright
1953
0.0
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
4.9
Mr. Lexiter
Big Jim McLain
1952
5.8
Ray Harvey
Million Dollar Pursuit
1951
6.0
John X. Finn
The Missourians
1950
0.0
Skipper Horton
The Old Frontier
1950
2.0
Waldorf Worthington
The Vanishing Westerner
1950
0.0
Huck Homer
Pioneer Marshal
1949
0.0
Sheriff Jug Mason
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
4.0
Happy Daniels
San Antone Ambush
1949
Credits
The Sun Shines Bright
as Jimmy Bagby
1953
6.4
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
0.0
Big Jim McLain
as Mr. Lexiter
1952
4.9
Million Dollar Pursuit
as Ray Harvey
1951
5.8
The Missourians
as John X. Finn
1950
6.0
The Old Frontier
as Skipper Horton
1950
0.0
The Vanishing Westerner
as Waldorf Worthington
1950
2.0
Pioneer Marshal
as Huck Homer
1949
0.0
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
as Sheriff Jug Mason
1949
0.0
San Antone Ambush
as Happy Daniels
1949
4.0
South of Rio
as Andy Weems
1949
0.0
Outcasts of the Trail
as Doc Meadowlark
1949
0.0
Law of the Golden West
as Otis Ellis
1949
6.0
Prince of the Plains
as Sheriff Hank Hartley
1949
0.0
Gun Smugglers
as Sergeant Hasty Jones
1948
0.0
Yellow Sky
as Drunk (uncredited)
1948
6.9
Son of God’s Country
as Eli Walker
1948
0.0
The Arizona Ranger
as Ben Riddle
1948
6.0
Heart of Virginia
as Whit Galtry
1948
0.0
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Jailer
1948
3.6
California Firebrand
as Chuck Waggoner
1948
3.0
Madonna of the Desert
as Pete Connors
1948
6.0
Under Colorado Skies
as Lucky John Hawkins
1947
0.0
Angel and the Badman
as Frederick Carson
1947
6.4
The Plainsman and the Lady
as Al
1946
3.0
Death Valley
as Sergeant Dailey
1946
5.0
In Old Sacramento
as Stagecoach Driver
1946
6.0
The Virginian
1946
6.0
Murder in the Music Hall
as Hobarth
1946
4.6
Dakota
as Captain Spotts
1945
5.1
Midnight Manhunt
as Murphy
1945
4.5
Steppin' in Society
as Cookie
1945
0.0
Scared Stiff
as Sheriff
1945
4.0
The Big Show-Off
as Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler
1945
4.5
Something for the Boys
as Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited)
1944
6.2
Girl Rush
as Muley
1944
5.0
Barbary Coast Gent
as Jake Compton
1944
4.6
Summer Storm
as Orloff
1944
5.3
The Ghost That Walks Alone
as Sheriff Slim Carson
1944
3.7
The Sky's the Limit
as Dock Foreman (uncredited)
1943
6.2
Coney Island
as Louie
1943
6.1
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Monty Smith
1943
7.7
December 7th
as World War I Ghost Soldier
1943
5.8
Hi'ya, Chum
as Archie Billings
1943
6.0
Calaboose
as Ed the bartender
1943
0.0
Night in New Orleans
as Sergeant Casper Riordan
1942
3.6
Sundown Jim
as Broderick
1942
0.0
Dudes Are Pretty People
as Two-Gun
1942
0.0
Pardon My Stripes
as Feets
1942
6.0
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
as Page
1941
5.7
This Woman Is Mine
as Second Mate Mumford
1941
4.0
The Parson of Panamint
as Jake Waldren
1941
5.0
Caught in the Draft
as Sgt. Burns
1941
5.6
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Michael O'Connor
1941
5.3
Petticoat Politics
as Slats O'Dell
1941
0.0
Virginia
as Thomas
1941
0.0
Tall, Dark and Handsome
as Biff Sage
1941
5.7
Goin' Fishin'
1940
6.0
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Pete
1940
5.5
Spring Parade
as Headwaiter
1940
6.7
The Westerner
as Chickenfoot
1940
7.1
South to Karanga
as Slats
1940
0.0
They Drive by Night
as Pete Haig (uncredited)
1940
6.9
Torrid Zone
as Daniels
1940
6.5
Edison, the Man
as Sheriff
1940
6.8
Star Dust
as Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech
1940
4.8
Castle on the Hudson
as Guard (uncredited)
1940
6.8
Remember?
as Policeman
1939
5.8
Gone with the Wind
as Yankee Deserter
1939
7.9
Glove Slingers
as Chuck Brenner
1939
4.0
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
as Empire State Building Guard
1939
6.3
On Your Toes
as Variety Club Bartender
1939
3.9
Bad Lands
as Curly Tom
1939
3.7
Quick Millions
as Sheriff
1939
7.5
Each Dawn I Die
as Garsky
1939
6.8
🎬
It Could Happen to You
as Sandy
1939
1.5
Broadway Serenade
as Reynolds, a Drunk
1939
6.2
Cafe Society
as Bartender
1939
6.0
Topper Takes a Trip
as Charlie - the Bartender
1938
6.5
Secrets of a Nurse
as Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
1938
4.0
The Last Express
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer
1938
1.0
Hold That Co-ed
as Slapsy
1938
6.3
My Lucky Star
as Louie
1938
5.3
Prison Break
as Soapy
1938
5.6
Josette
as A. Adolphus Heyman
1938
6.5
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Bill Mulligan
1938
6.7
In Old Chicago
as Mitch
1938
6.6
Island in the Sky
as Happy
1938
7.0
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Florabelle's Father
1938
6.7
No Time to Marry
as Sergeant
1938
6.0
Second Honeymoon
as Dennis Huggins
1937
5.8
Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Captain
1937
5.9
🎬
The Lady Fights Back
as Maloney
1937
6.0
Danger – Love at Work
as NYC policeman
1937
7.3
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Bill
1937
6.0
Wake Up and Live
as McCabe
1937
5.3
She's No Lady
as Cop
1937
0.0
You Can't Have Everything
as Truck Driver (uncredited)
1937
5.7
The Legion of Missing Men
as Muggsy
1937
5.0
Super-Sleuth
as Motorcycle Cop
1937
5.0
You Can't Beat Love
as Foreman Butch Mehaffey
1937
6.0
Slave Ship
as Drunk
1937
4.5
Angel's Holiday
as Sgt. Murphy
1937
5.5
Fifty Roads to Town
as Tom
1937
0.0
This Is My Affair
as Bowler
1937
7.3
Trouble in Morocco
as Tiger Malone
1937
6.0
We Who Are About to Die
as Tip Fuller
1937
6.8
North of Nome
as Carlson
1936
6.0
The Gay Desperado
as American Detective
1936
2.8
🎬
I'd Give My Life
as "Sport" Conly
1936
6.0
To Mary - with Love
as Drunk
1936
4.5
Blackmailer
as Inspector Killian
1936
5.0
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as 1st Deputy (uncredited)
1936
7.5
Robin Hood of El Dorado
as Wilson
1936
4.2
Riffraff
as Belcher
1936
4.9
The Gay Deception
as Bell Captain
1935
6.4
The Daring Young Man
as Prison Guard
1935
0.0
Calm Yourself
as Detective Roscoe
1935
4.5
Public Hero Number 1
as Rufe Parker
1935
6.2
The Case of the Curious Bride
as Fibo Morgan (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Mississippi
as Hefty
1935
6.7
Carnival
as Policeman
1935
0.0
Shadow of Doubt
as Lt. Sackville
1935
6.2
Sequoia
as Bergman
1935
6.0
Maybe It's Love
as Expressman (uncredited)
1935
6.0
The Ballad of Paducah Jail
as Escaped Felon
1934
0.0
Tomorrow's Youth
as Detective
1934
0.0
Among the Missing
as Capt. W.F. 'Big Bill' Connors
1934
6.3
Take the Stand
as Denny O'Brien
1934
4.7
Midnight Alibi
as Babe the Butcher
1934
6.0
Charlie Chan's Courage
as Undetermined Role
1934
8.0
A Very Honorable Guy
as Butler
1934
2.0
The Big Race
as Skipper O'Neal
1934
0.0
Queen Christina
as Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)
1934
6.8
The Women in His Life
as Paul, Perez's Second Bodyguard
1933
3.5
Day of Reckoning
as Harry
1933
4.4
Saturday's Millions
as Doc Maloney, Trainer
1933
5.0
Tugboat Annie
as Sam
1933
7.0
Hold Your Man
as Aubrey C. Mitchell (uncredited)
1933
6.1
The Sphinx
as Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan
1933
4.6
Terror Aboard
as Boatswain
1933
6.0
Grand Slam
as Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film
1933
4.0
Island of Lost Souls
as Capt. Donahue
1932
6.9
Men Are Such Fools
as Stiles
1932
0.0
The Big Stampede
as 'Arizona' Frank Bailey
1932
4.8
The Phantom President
as Sailor (uncredited)
1932
5.5
Hold 'Em Jail
as Butch
1932
6.8
The Thirteenth Guest
as Detective Grump
1932
4.9
State's Attorney
as Police Captain Morgan
1932
6.7
My Pal, the King
as Red
1932
0.0
Panama Flo
as Al
1932
7.0
The Secret Witness
as Officer Brannigan
1931
2.3
Bad Company
as Paul Hurst
1931
4.6
Maker of Men
as Gabby
1931
0.0
The Public Defender
as Doc
1931
6.0
That's My Line
as Mexican Bandit
1931
0.0
Sweepstakes
as Bartender
1931
4.5
Kick In
as Detective Whip Fogarty
1931
6.0
The Secret Six
as Nick Mizoski - the Gouger
1931
5.5
The Single Sin
as Slug
1931
0.0
The Third Alarm
as 'Beauty' Johnson
1930
0.0
Borrowed Wives
as Bull Morgan
1930
4.6
Paradise Island
as Beauty
1930
3.3
Hot Curves
as 'Slug', Baseball Player
1930
5.7
Shadow of the Law
as Pete Shore
1930
6.4
The Runaway Bride
as Sergeant Daly
1930
5.0
Mountain Justice
as Lem Harland
1930
5.0
Swellhead
as Mugsy
1930
0.0
Officer O'Brien
as Captain Antrim
1930
3.7
Lucky Larkin
as Pete Brierson
1930
0.0
His First Command
as Sgt. Westbrook
1929
7.0
The Racketeer
as Mehaffy - Policeman
1929
4.9
Oh, Yeah!
as Railroad-Yard Superintendent
1929
4.3
Sailor's Holiday
as Jimmylegs
1929
5.2
The California Mail
as Rowdy Ryan
1929
0.0
Tide of Empire
as Poppy
1929
5.9
The Lawless Legion
as Ramirez
1929
0.0
Lilac Time
as (uncredited)
1928
6.2
The Cossacks
as Sitchi
1928
7.3
Buttons
as Slugger McGlue
1927
1.0
The Valley of the Giants
as Randeau
1927
0.0
The Red Raiders
as Sergeant Murphy
1927
8.0
The Devil's Saddle
as 'Swig' Moran
1927
0.0
🎬
Outlaw's Paradise
as McDonald
1927
0.0
Blue Streak O'Neil
1926
0.0
🎬
The Fighting Ranger
1926
0.0
Roaring Road
as Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited)
1926
0.0
🎬
The Man Who Would Not Die
1924
0.0
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)
1923
6.5
Lightning Bryce
as Powder Solvang
1919
0.0
Smashing Through
as Stevens
1918
0.0
Rimrock Jones
as Ike Bray
1918
0.0
The Further Adventures of Stingaree
as Howie
1917
0.0
The Railroad Raiders
as Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst)
1917
0.0
The Hazards of Helen
as Benton - a Foreman
1917
0.0
The Manager of the B & A
as Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst)
1916
0.0
🎬
The Diamond Runners
as Paul - the Brains of the I.D.B.
1916
0.0
Judith of the Cumberlands
as Blatchley Turrentine
1916
0.0
Medicine Bend
as Murray Sinclair
1916
0.0
Whispering Smith
as Murray Sinclair
1916
0.0
A Lass of the Lumberlands
1916
0.0
Stingaree
as Howie - Stingaree's Partner
1915
0.0
The Vivisectionist
as Bart - Jardine's Servant
1915
0.0
The Red Signal
as Chief Dispatcher
1915
0.0
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
as A Trainman
1915
5.8
The Girl Detective
as Blair / Thompson / Michaels / Snake Henely / Mike Donegal / Bat Dorgan / Kelly / Dalton / Blake
1915
5.8
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
as Benton, the Foreman
1914
0.0
🎬
The Chief of Police
as Daniels
1914
0.0
🎬
The Quicksands
as Captain Lanning - Osborn's Rival
1914
0.0
The Cave Men's War
as Red Axe
1913
0.0
The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach
as Bad Bill - a Desperado
1912
0.0