Morris Ankrum
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor. Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939. Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres. Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.
Known for
Credits
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Ed Bostwick
Desire Me (1947)
as Hector Martin
In a Lonely Place (1950)
as Lloyd Barnes
Road Agent (1941)
as Big John Morgan
Hiawatha (1952)
as Iagoo
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
as Narrator (voice)
Swing Fever (1943)
as Dan Conlon
Vera Cruz (1954)
as Gen. Ramírez
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
as Judge (uncredited)
Fall Guy (1945)
as District Attorney (uncredited)
Courage of Lassie (1946)
as Farmer Crews
Fighting Back (1948)
as Robert J. Higby
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
as Brig. Gen. John Hanley
Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
as Narrator (unconfirmed)
Purity Squad (1945)
as Dr. Adams (uncredited)
Roxie Hart (1942)
as Martin S. Harrison
The Green Years (1946)
as Dr. Galbraith
We Were Strangers (1949)
as M. Seymour
Tarawa Beachhead (1958)
as Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
as Col. Fielding
The Sea of Grass (1947)
as A.J. Crane
Son of Ali Baba (1952)
as Ali Baba
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957)
as Dr. Carl Jordan
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
Red Planet Mars (1952)
as Secretary of Defense Sparks
Reunion in France (1942)
as Martin
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
as J.I. 'Pop' Jones
The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
as Dr. Wilson
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1941)
as Ace Anderson
The Harvey Girls (1946)
as Reverend Claggett
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
as Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
as Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
as Sheriff
The Steel Cage (1954)
as Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
Fighting Coast Guard (1951)
as Navy Captain
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
as Washington Press Correspondent
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
as Col. Demas (uncredited)
Apache (1954)
as Dawson
My Favorite Spy (1951)
as Gen. Frazer
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Judge
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Willoughby Peavy
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
as Gen. Wade
Drums Across the River (1954)
as Chief Ouray
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
as Jim Whitehead
Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
as Magistrate (uncredited)
The Man Behind The Gun (1953)
as Bram Creegan
The Last Command (1955)
Actor
Flight to Mars (1951)
as Ikron
Guns of Diablo (1964)
as Ray Macklin
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Rocketship X-M (1950)
as Dr. Ralph Fleming
Along the Great Divide (1951)
as Ed Roden
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
as Grey Eagle
Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
as Red Cloud
Time to Kill (1942)
as Alexander Morny
The Silver Star (1955)
as Charlie Childress
Borderline (1950)
as Bill Whittaker
Lady in the Lake (1946)
as Eugene Grayson
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
as Hugh Wagner
Silver Lode (1954)
as Zachary Evans
Beginning of the End (1957)
as Gen. John Hanson
Little Mister Jim (1947)
as Col. W.I. Starwell
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
as Inspector (uncredited)
Down Liberty Road (1957)
as Fred Schroder
Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
as Capt. Davis
Colorado Territory (1949)
as United States Marshal
The Giant Claw (1957)
as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
How to Make a Monster (1958)
as Police Capt. Hancock
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
as Jefferson Davis
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
as Dr. Jonathan Eggert
The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
as Bo Slauter
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
as Assistant District Attorney
The Heavenly Body (1944)
as Dr. Green
Short Grass (1950)
as Hal Fenton
Quincannon, Frontier Scout (1956)
as Col. Harry Conover
Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
as Second Outlaw
Tower of London (1962)
as The Archbishop
Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
as Sheriff Jackson
Devil's Canyon (1953)
as Ed
I Beheld His Glory (1953)
as Peter
The Light of Western Stars (1940)
as Nat Hayworth
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
as Andrews
Adventure (1945)
as Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
Good News (1947)
as Dean Griswold
Southwest Passage (1954)
as Dr. Stanton
Because of You (1952)
as Dr. Travis
Wide Open Town (1941)
as Jim Stuart
Giant from the Unknown (1958)
as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as Sharain's Father
Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
as Mr. Jones
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956)
as Doc Phillips
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
as Blackie Felton
Best Foot Forward (1943)
as Col. Harkrider
Arena (1953)
as Bucky Hillberry
North of the Rio Grande (1937)
as Henry Stoneham
The Lion Hunters (1951)
as Tom Forbes
Fort Osage (1952)
as Arthur Pickett
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
as Ed Scofield
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
as Eugene Deane
When Gangland Strikes (1956)
as Leo Fantzler
Sky Commando (1953)
as Gen. W.R. Combs
The Desperados Are in Town (1956)
as Mr. Rutherford
Meet the People (1944)
as Monte Rowland
High Wall (1947)
as Dr. Stanley Griffin
For the Love of Mary (1948)
as Adm. Walton
Badman's Country (1958)
as Mayor Coleman
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
as Sea Captain
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
as Wood
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Alexander Prince
No Man's Woman (1955)
as Capt. Hostedder
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
as Mr. Graham
The Raiders (1952)
as Thomas Ainsworth
Doomed Caravan (1941)
as Stephen Westcott
Drango (1957)
as Henry Calder
Tennessee's Partner (1955)
as Judge Parker
The Hidden Eye (1945)
as Ferris (henchman)
Cherokee Strip (1940)
as Hawk Barrett
Dark Shadows (1944)
as Lt. Pat McKay
Mutiny (1952)
as Capt. Radford
Kronos (1957)
as Dr. Albert Stern
Let's Face It (1943)
as Man in Sun Shell Cafe
Hell's Crossroads (1957)
as Wheeler
Three Men from Texas (1940)
as Bruce Morgan
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
as Fowles
Crashout (1955)
as Head Guard
Souvenirs of Death (1948)
as Gangster (uncredited)
Borderland (1937)
as Loco
Young and Wild (1958)
as Police Capt. Egan
Flight Nurse (1953)
as Interrogation Officer
Three Young Texans (1954)
as Jeff Blair
Pirates on Horseback (1941)
as Ace Gibson
A Star Shall Rise (1952)
as King Herod
Border Vigilantes (1941)
as Dan Forbes
Merton of the Movies (1947)
as Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
Fort Vengeance (1953)
as Chief Crowfoot
Main Street Today (1944)
as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
The Omaha Trail (1942)
as Henchman Job
In Old Colorado (1941)
as Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
Rationing (1944)
as Morgan
Trail Dust (1936)
as Tex Anderson
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
as Alec Veeder
Cynthia (1947)
as Mr. Phillips, Principal
This Woman Is Mine (1941)
as Roussel
The Power of the Resurrection (1958)
as Annas
The Outlaw Stallion (1954)
as Sheriff
Knights of the Range (1940)
as Gamecock
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
as Glen Randall
The Showdown (1940)
as Baron Rendor
Frontier Gun (1958)
as Andrew Barton
Mexican Manhunt (1953)
as Tip Morgan
Dixie Dugan (1943)
as Editor
Naked Gun (1956)
as Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
Return from Nowhere (1944)
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Bandit Trail (1941)
as Red Haggerty
Gentle Annie (1944)
as Deputy Gansby
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come (1961)
as Gen. Lew Wallace
The Fabulous Fraud (1948)
as Blind Girl's Father
The Roundup (1941)
as 'Parenthesis'
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story (1955)
as Azar the Shepherd