
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.
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- 1967Counterpoint
- 1967Welcome to Hard Times (Mr. Fee)
- 1967A Covenant with Death (Governor)
- 1966Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Bill Simpson (uncredited))
- 1965The John Forsythe Show
- 1965The Glory Guys (Commanding General)
- 1963The Raiders (Paul King)
- 1963The Fugitive (Police Captain Carpenter)
- 1963The Fugitive
- 1963Arrest and Trial
- 1962General Electric True
- 1962The Virginian (Sheriff Halsey)
- 1962The Virginian (Carl Bruner)
- 1962The Virginian (Ben Carter)
- 1962The Virginian (John Carver)
- 1962The Virginian (Mack Lewis)
- 1962Sam Benedict
- 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Mayor Winder)
- 1962A Public Affair (Malcomb Hardy)
- 1961Cain's Hundred (Sheriff Rainey)
- 1961Two Rode Together (Judge Edward Purcell)
- 1960The Tall Man
- 1960Portrait in Black (Detective lieutenant)
- 1960Too Soon to Love
- 1959Hawaiian Eye
- 1959The Alaskans
- 1959Riverboat (Sergeant Major Carmody)
- 1959Tightrope
- 1959Gunmen from Laredo (Marshal Matt Crawford)
- 1959Black Saddle (Mr. Simpson)
- 195877 Sunset Strip (Zachary Latimer)
- 1958Cannonball ("Cannonball" Mike Malone)
- 1958The Texan
- 1958Bronco
- 1958Queen of Outer Space (Prof. Konrad)
- 1958The Gun Runners (Sy Phillips)
- 1958Wild Heritage (Jake Breslin)
- 1958Gunman's Walk (Bob Selkirk)
- 1958Sea Hunt
- 1958The World Was His Jury (Martin Ranker)
- 1957Joe Dakota (Frank Weaver)
- 1957Trackdown
- 1957The Court of Last Resort
- 1957Maverick
- 1957Perry Mason (Security Officer Frank Crawford)
- 1957M Squad (Police Lt. Ruddy)
- 1957Wagon Train (Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant)
- 1957Wagon Train (Sam Benson)
- 1957Sugarfoot (Emmett Clark)
- 1957The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm (Banker)
- 1957Have Gun, Will Travel
- 1957The Spirit of St. Louis (Blythe (uncredited))
- 1957The Tattered Dress (Prosecutor Frank Mitchell)
- 1957Panic!
- 1957Not of This Earth (Paul Johnson)
- 1957The 27th Day (Admiral)
- 1956Gun for a Coward (Andy Niven)
- 1956The Family Nobody Wanted
- 1956Everything But the Truth (Sen. Winter)
- 1956The White Squaw
- 1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (Sheriff Cutler)
- 1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (Sheriff)
- 1956The Fastest Gun Alive (Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork))
- 1956Telephone Time
- 1956When Gangland Strikes (Sheriff Mack McBride)
- 1955The Fighting Chance (Auctioneer)
- 1955Day the World Ended (Jim Madison)
- 1955Rebel Without a Cause (Police Lieutenant (uncredited))
- 1955Crossroads (Chief Crane)
- 1955The 20th Century Fox Hour
- 1955Cheyenne
- 1955Navy Log
- 1955Apache Woman (Sherrif)
- 1955Gunsmoke (Boss)
- 1955Gunsmoke (Jessie)
- 1955The Beast with a Million Eyes (Allan Kelley)
- 1955Five Guns West (J.C. Haggard)
- 1955Strange Lady in Town (Sheriff)
- 1955Science Fiction Theatre
- 1955Man Without a Star (Mark Toliver)
- 1954Cattle Queen of Montana (Col. Carrington)
- 1954Ride Clear of Diablo (Fred Kenyon)
- 1953The War of the Worlds (Alonzo Hogue (uncredited))
- 1953You Are There
- 1953I Led Three Lives
- 1952Death Valley Days (Mike Walsh)
- 1952Death Valley Days (Jim Davidson)
- 1952Hopalong Cassidy
- 1952Assignment: Paris (Colonel Mannix (uncredited))
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Secretary of Agriculture)
- 1950The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Police Desk Sergeant)
- 1950Lux Video Theatre (Doctor)
- 1948Studio One (Big George)
- 1945Adventure (First Mate (uncredited))