Paul Birch
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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
Credits
The War of the Worlds (1953)
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Mayor Winder
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
as Blythe (uncredited)
The 27th Day (1957)
as Admiral
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
as Mr. Fee
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
as Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
Man Without a Star (1955)
as Mark Toliver
Gunman's Walk (1958)
as Bob Selkirk
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Andy Niven
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
Two Rode Together (1961)
as Judge Edward Purcell
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
as Allan Kelley
Not of This Earth (1957)
as Paul Johnson
Counterpoint (1967)
Actor
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
as Prof. Konrad
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
as Col. Carrington
Portrait in Black (1960)
as Detective Lieutenant
The Gun Runners (1958)
as Sy Phillips
Five Guns West (1955)
as J.C. Haggard
Adventure (1945)
as First Mate (uncredited)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
as Fred Kenyon
Too Soon to Love (1960)
Actor
The Glory Guys (1965)
as Commanding General
Day the World Ended (1955)
as Jim Madison
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
as Sheriff
The Raiders (1963)
as Paul King
Joe Dakota (1957)
as Frank Weaver
A Covenant with Death (1967)
as Governor
The Tattered Dress (1957)
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Everything But the Truth (1956)
as Sen. Winter
Assignment: Paris (1952)
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
The World Was His Jury (1958)
as Martin Ranker
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm (1957)
as Banker
Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
as Marshal Matt Crawford
Apache Woman (1955)
as Sherrif
The Family Nobody Wanted (1956)
Actor
Wild Heritage (1958)
as Jake Breslin
The White Squaw (1956)
Actor
When Gangland Strikes (1956)
as Sheriff Mack McBride
The Fighting Chance (1955)
as Auctioneer
A Public Affair (1962)
as Malcomb Hardy