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