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Acting
Birthday
January 13, 1912
Died
May 24, 1969
Place of Birth
Atmore, Alabama, USA
Paul Birch
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Biography
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
6.0
Counterpoint
1967
5.1
Mr. Fee
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
4.7
Governor
A Covenant with Death
1967
5.7
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
🎬
5.0
The John Forsythe Show
1965
6.5
Commanding General
The Glory Guys
1965
4.3
Paul King
The Raiders
1963
7.2
Police Captain Carpenter
The Fugitive
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
1963
7.7
Arrest and Trial
1963
Credits
Counterpoint
1967
6.0
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mr. Fee
1967
5.1
A Covenant with Death
as Governor
1967
4.7
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
1966
5.7
🎬
The John Forsythe Show
1965
5.0
The Glory Guys
as Commanding General
1965
6.5
The Raiders
as Paul King
1963
4.3
The Fugitive
as Police Captain Carpenter
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
1963
7.2
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.7
General Electric True
1962
0.0
The Virginian
as Sheriff Halsey
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Carl Bruner
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as John Carver
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Ben Carter
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Mack Lewis
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mayor Winder
1962
7.8
A Public Affair
as Malcomb Hardy
1962
0.0
Cain's Hundred
as Sheriff Rainey
1961
4.7
Two Rode Together
as Judge Edward Purcell
1961
6.4
The Tall Man
1960
6.3
Portrait in Black
as Detective lieutenant
1960
5.5
Too Soon to Love
1960
3.5
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
The Alaskans
1959
5.5
Riverboat
as Sergeant Major Carmody
1959
6.2
Tightrope
1959
5.5
Gunmen from Laredo
as Marshal Matt Crawford
1959
4.7
Black Saddle
as Mr. Simpson
1959
6.0
77 Sunset Strip
as Zachary Latimer
1958
6.7
Cannonball
as "Cannonball" Mike Malone
1958
5.0
The Texan
1958
5.5
Bronco
1958
5.9
Queen of Outer Space
as Prof. Konrad
1958
4.6
The Gun Runners
as Sy Phillips
1958
6.0
Wild Heritage
as Jake Breslin
1958
4.5
Gunman's Walk
as Bob Selkirk
1958
6.6
Sea Hunt
1958
6.6
The World Was His Jury
as Martin Ranker
1958
5.9
Joe Dakota
as Frank Weaver
1957
6.3
Trackdown
1957
6.4
🎬
The Court of Last Resort
1957
0.0
Maverick
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Security Officer Frank Crawford
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Police Lt. Ruddy
1957
5.2
Wagon Train
as Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Sam Benson
1957
6.6
Sugarfoot
as Emmett Clark
1957
4.8
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
as Banker
1957
0.0
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
The Spirit of St. Louis
as Blythe (uncredited)
1957
6.7
The Tattered Dress
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
1957
5.2
Panic!
1957
0.0
Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
1957
5.6
The 27th Day
as Admiral
1957
6.3
Gun for a Coward
as Andy Niven
1956
5.6
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956
0.0
Everything But the Truth
as Sen. Winter
1956
8.2
The White Squaw
1956
6.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Cutler
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff
1956
6.0
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
When Gangland Strikes
as Sheriff Mack McBride
1956
0.0
The Fighting Chance
as Auctioneer
1955
4.0
Day the World Ended
as Jim Madison
1955
4.9
Rebel Without a Cause
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
1955
7.5
Crossroads
as Chief Crane
1955
5.7
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Cheyenne
1955
6.0
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
Apache Woman
as Sherrif
1955
4.7
Gunsmoke
as Boss
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Jessie
1955
6.6
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Allan Kelley
1955
3.7
Five Guns West
as J.C. Haggard
1955
4.1
Strange Lady in Town
as Sheriff
1955
4.5
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
6.2
Man Without a Star
as Mark Toliver
1955
6.4
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Col. Carrington
1954
5.6
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Fred Kenyon
1954
5.8
The War of the Worlds
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
1953
6.8
You Are There
1953
5.7
I Led Three Lives
1953
0.0
Death Valley Days
as Mike Walsh
1952
6.4
Death Valley Days
as Jim Davidson
1952
6.4
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
5.1
Assignment: Paris
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
1952
5.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Secretary of Agriculture
1951
8.6
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
as Police Desk Sergeant
1950
7.1
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Doctor
1950
6.3
Studio One
as Big George
1948
5.0
Adventure
as First Mate (uncredited)
1945
6.2