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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 5, 1904
Died
June 12, 1980
Place of Birth
Burrton, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- Milburne Stone
- Hugh Milburn Stone
- میلبرن استون
Milburn Stone
2.2 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934). In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong. Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke. For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
Known For
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0.0
Hollywood Classic Special
2010
0.0
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
5.4
Self
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
5.8
Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
5.4
Col. Bracken
Drango
1957
6.6
Doc
Gunsmoke
1955
6.6
Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
The Private War of Major Benson
1955
6.8
Sergeant Miles
Smoke Signal
1955
6.6
Commissioner Trenton
White Feather
1955
7.0
Captain John J. Pershing
The Long Gray Line
1955
Credits
🎬
Hollywood Classic Special
2010
0.0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
5.4
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
Drango
as Col. Bracken
1957
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Doc
1955
6.6
The Private War of Major Benson
as Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
1955
6.6
Smoke Signal
as Sergeant Miles
1955
6.8
White Feather
as Commissioner Trenton
1955
6.6
The Long Gray Line
as Captain John J. Pershing
1955
7.0
Black Tuesday
as Father Slocum
1954
6.0
Climax!
as Mr. Dale
1954
3.3
The Siege at Red River
as Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman
1954
5.9
Arrowhead
as Sandy MacKinnon
1953
5.9
Second Chance
as Edward Dawson (uncredited)
1953
5.9
Pickup on South Street
as Detective Winoki
1953
7.3
The Sun Shines Bright
as Horace K. Maydew
1953
6.4
Invaders from Mars
as Army Capt. Roth
1953
5.9
Behind Southern Lines
1952
0.0
The Savage
as Cpl. Martin
1952
6.1
The Atomic City
as Insp. Harold Mann
1952
5.4
Dragnet
1951
6.4
The Racket
as Member of Craig's Team (uncredited)
1951
6.3
Roadblock
as Ray Egan
1951
5.8
Flying Leathernecks
as Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited)
1951
5.8
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
4.5
Operation Pacific
as Ground Control Officer (uncredited)
1951
6.0
The Fireball
as Jeff Davis
1950
5.6
Branded
as Dawson
1950
5.9
Snow Dog
as Dr. F. J. McKenzie
1950
5.0
No Man of Her Own
as Plainclothesman
1950
6.8
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Abe Jones
1949
5.9
Sky Dragon
as Pilot Tim Norton
1949
7.7
The Green Promise
as Rev. Benton
1949
6.0
The Judge
as Martin Strang
1949
5.3
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Train to Alcatraz
as Bart Kanin
1948
6.0
Heading for Heaven
as Elwood Harding
1947
4.9
Killer McCoy
as Henchman (uncredited)
1947
6.0
Michigan Kid
as Lanny Slade
1947
6.0
Killer Dill
as Maboose
1947
5.0
Buck Privates Come Home
as Announcer
1947
6.3
Danger Woman
as Gerald King
1946
0.0
Inside Job
as District Attorney Sutton
1946
5.6
Her Adventurous Night
as Cop #1
1946
7.0
Strange Conquest
as Bert Morrow
1946
0.0
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
as Mr. Moore
1946
6.5
Little Giant
as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
1946
5.1
Smooth as Silk
as John Kimble (District Attorney)
1946
4.8
The Scarlet Horseman
as Narrator
1946
0.0
Little Miss Big
as Father Lennergan
1946
6.0
The Daltons Ride Again
as Parker W. Graham
1945
3.0
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
as Brad Taggart
1945
5.8
Strange Confession
as Stevens
1945
6.8
The Beautiful Cheat
as Lucius Haven
1945
0.0
On Stage Everybody
as Fitzgerald
1945
0.0
The Frozen Ghost
as George Keene
1945
6.3
Swing Out, Sister
as Tim Colby
1945
3.7
The Master Key
as Agent Tom Brant
1945
0.0
I'll Remember April
as Willie Winchester
1945
3.7
Enemy Bacteria
as Doctor
1945
0.0
She Gets Her Man
as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker
1945
3.7
Jungle Woman
as Fred Mason
1944
4.9
Twilight on the Prairie
as Gainsworth
1944
0.0
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as Jim Hudson
1944
5.0
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Jim Bradley
1944
0.0
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Gib Dickson
1944
5.7
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Bill Eaton
1944
5.7
🎬
Prices Unlimited
1944
0.0
Weird Woman
1944
6.0
Phantom Lady
as District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
1944
7.0
Gung Ho!
as Cmdr. Blake
1943
5.4
The Mad Ghoul
as Sgt. Macklin
1943
5.9
Corvette K-225
as Canadian Captain
1943
6.1
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Capt. Pat Vickery
1943
6.8
Destroyer
as Radioman (uncredited)
1943
6.6
Get Going
as Mr. Tuttle
1943
0.0
Captive Wild Woman
as Fred Mason
1943
5.2
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Duke Redman
1943
5.5
You Can't Beat the Law
as Frank Sanders
1943
5.2
Silent Witness
as Racketeer Joe Manson
1943
6.0
Eyes in the Night
as Detective Pete (Uncredited)
1942
5.9
Invisible Agent
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
1942
5.8
Rubber Racketeers
as Angel
1942
4.3
Pacific Rendezvous
as Hotel Desk Clerk
1942
6.0
Reap the Wild Wind
as Lieutenant Farragut
1942
6.4
🎬
Frisco Lil
1942
8.0
No Hands on the Clock
as FBI Agent
1941
4.9
Death Valley Outlaws
as Jeff
1941
0.0
The Great Train Robbery
as Duke Logan
1941
7.5
The Phantom Cowboy
as Stan Borden
1941
6.0
Give Us Wings
as Tex Austin
1940
6.0
The Great Plane Robbery
as Krebber
1940
0.0
Colorado
as Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
1940
5.5
Public Deb No. 1
as Reporter
1940
4.4
Buyer Beware
as Fredericks (uncredited)
1940
6.0
🎬
American Portrait
as George
1940
0.0
Lillian Russell
as Jack - Reporter
1940
6.1
An Angel from Texas
as 'Pooch' Davis
1940
4.8
Johnny Apollo
as Reporter (uncredited)
1940
6.8
Enemy Agent
as Meeker
1940
5.5
Framed
as Mathew Mattison
1940
5.8
Chasing Trouble
as Pat Callahan
1940
5.0
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Joe Felton
1939
6.0
The Big Guy
as Publicity man (uncredited)
1939
0.0
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Krebs - 2d hurt worker
1939
5.7
Crashing Thru
as Delos Harrington
1939
6.0
Fighting Mad
as Cardigan
1939
3.0
Danger Flight
as Skeeter
1939
3.2
Sky Patrol
as Skeeter Milligan
1939
4.0
Tropic Fury
as Thomas E. Snell
1939
0.0
When Tomorrow Comes
as Head Busboy (uncredited)
1939
5.1
Stunt Pilot
as 'Skeeter' Milligan
1939
5.0
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
1939
7.2
Blind Alley
as Nick
1939
5.7
Mystery Plane
as Skeeter Milligan
1939
7.2
Society Smugglers
as Peter Garfield
1939
5.6
Tail Spin
as Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
1939
5.8
King of the Turf
as Taylor
1939
7.0
Made for Each Other
as Newark Official (uncredited)
1939
6.1
Blackwell's Island
as Max (uncredited)
1939
5.0
California Frontier
as Mal Halstead
1938
0.0
Paroled from the Big House
as Commissioner Downey
1938
0.0
Wives Under Suspicion
as Kirk
1938
5.0
Sinners in Paradise
as T.L. Honeyman
1938
5.1
Port of Missing Girls
as Jim Benton
1938
0.0
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Burns
1938
5.1
Federal Bullets
as Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
1937
0.0
Music for Madame
as Detective (Uncredited)
1937
5.0
Youth on Parole
as Ratty
1937
2.8
🎬
Atlantic Flight
as Henry Wadsworth Schultz
1937
4.0
🎬
Blazing Barriers
as Joe Waters
1937
0.0
The 13th Man
as Jimmy Moran
1937
6.0
The Wildcatter
as Ed
1937
0.0
Wings Over Honolulu
as Telephone Operator
1937
5.5
They Gave Him a Gun
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
1937
6.2
🎬
Swing It Professor
as Lou Morgan
1937
0.0
A Doctor's Diary
as Fred Clark
1937
10.0
The Accusing Finger
as Convict
1936
4.7
Two in a Crowd
as Kennedy (uncredited)
1936
0.0
Murder with Pictures
as Operator (uncredited)
1936
5.1
The Three Mesquiteers
as John
1936
5.0
China Clipper
as Radio Operator
1936
5.6
The Princess Comes Across
as American Reporter (uncredited)
1936
6.1
Rendezvous
as Carter's Aide (uncredited)
1935
4.3
Cheers of the Crowd
as Reporter (uncredited)
1935
5.5