1912-01-13 Atmore, Alabama, USA
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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Counterpoint | 1967-12-22 | |
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A Covenant with Death | Governor | 1967-02-15 |
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Welcome to Hard Times | Mr. Fee | 1967-04-30 |
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Bill Simpson (uncredited) | 1966-10-12 |
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The Glory Guys | Commanding General | 1965-07-07 |
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The Raiders | Paul King | 1963-12-01 |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Mayor Winder | 1962-04-13 |
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A Public Affair | Malcomb Hardy | 1962-03-03 |
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Two Rode Together | Judge Edward Purcell | 1961-07-26 |
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Portrait in Black | Detective lieutenant | 1960-07-27 |
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Too Soon to Love | 1960-02-01 | |
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Gunmen from Laredo | Marshal Matt Crawford | 1959-03-01 |
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Gunman's Walk | Bob Selkirk | 1958-07-01 |
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Queen of Outer Space | Prof. Konrad | 1958-09-07 |
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The World Was His Jury | Martin Ranker | 1958-01-01 |
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Wild Heritage | Jake Breslin | 1958-07-23 |
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The Gun Runners | Sy Phillips | 1958-08-01 |
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The 27th Day | Admiral | 1957-01-07 |
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Joe Dakota | Frank Weaver | 1957-10-27 |
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Not of This Earth | Paul Johnson | 1957-02-10 |
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The Tattered Dress | Prosecutor Frank Mitchell | 1957-03-14 |
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Gun for a Coward | Andy Niven | 1956-12-30 |
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The White Squaw | 1956-11-01 | |
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Everything But the Truth | Sen. Winter | 1956-12-01 |
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When Gangland Strikes | Sheriff Mack McBride | 1956-03-15 |
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The Fighting Chance | Auctioneer | 1955-12-15 |
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Strange Lady in Town | Sheriff | 1955-04-12 |
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Five Guns West | J.C. Haggard | 1955-04-15 |
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Rebel Without a Cause | Police Lieutenant (uncredited) | 1955-10-27 |
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Man Without a Star | Mark Toliver | 1955-03-24 |
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Apache Woman | Sherrif | 1955-09-15 |
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Day the World Ended | Jim Madison | 1955-12-01 |
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The Beast with a Million Eyes | Allan Kelley | 1955-06-15 |
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Ride Clear of Diablo | Fred Kenyon | 1954-02-10 |
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Cattle Queen of Montana | Col. Carrington | 1954-11-18 |
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The War of the Worlds | Alonzo Hogue (uncredited) | 1953-08-13 |
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Assignment: Paris | Colonel Mannix (uncredited) | 1952-09-04 |
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Adventure | First Mate (uncredited) | 1945-12-28 |
