From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Movie | Penny | Paul | 2017-08-23 |
Movie | Counterpoint | 1967-12-22 | |
Movie | Welcome to Hard Times | Mr. Fee | 1967-04-30 |
Movie | A Covenant with Death | Governor | 1967-02-15 |
Movie | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Bill Simpson (uncredited) | 1966-10-12 |
Movie | The Glory Guys | Commanding General | 1965-07-07 |
Series | Arrest and Trial | Unknown | 1963-09-15 |
Movie | The Raiders | Paul King | 1963-12-01 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Movie | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Mayor Winder | 1962-04-13 |
Movie | Two Rode Together | Judge Edward Purcell | 1961-07-26 |
Series | The Tall Man | Unknown | 1960-09-10 |
Movie | Portrait in Black | Detective lieutenant | 1960-07-27 |
Movie | Too Soon to Love | 1960-02-01 | |
Movie | Gunmen from Laredo | Marshal Matt Crawford | 1959-03-01 |
Series | Black Saddle | Unknown | 1959-01-10 |
Series | Riverboat | Unknown | 1959-09-13 |
Series | Tightrope | Unknown | 1959-09-08 |
Series | Hawaiian Eye | Unknown | 1959-10-07 |
Series | 77 Sunset Strip | Unknown | 1958-10-10 |
Series | Cannonball | "Cannonball" Mike Malone | 1958-10-06 |
Series | The Texan | Unknown | 1958-09-29 |
Movie | Queen of Outer Space | Prof. Konrad | 1958-09-07 |
Movie | The Gun Runners | Sy Phillips | 1958-08-01 |
Movie | Wild Heritage | Jake Breslin | 1958-07-23 |
Movie | Gunman's Walk | Bob Selkirk | 1958-07-01 |
Series | Sea Hunt | Unknown | 1958-01-04 |
Movie | The World Was His Jury | Martin Ranker | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | The Tattered Dress | Prosecutor Frank Mitchell | 1957-03-14 |
Movie | The 27th Day | Admiral | 1957-01-07 |
Movie | Not of This Earth | Paul Johnson | 1957-02-10 |
Series | Panic! | Unknown | 1957-03-05 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
Series | Sugarfoot | Unknown | 1957-09-17 |
Series | M Squad | Unknown | 1957-09-20 |
Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
Movie | Joe Dakota | Frank Weaver | 1957-10-27 |
Movie | Gun for a Coward | Andy Niven | 1956-12-30 |
Movie | Everything But the Truth | Sen. Winter | 1956-12-01 |
Movie | The White Squaw | 1956-11-01 | |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | When Gangland Strikes | Sheriff Mack McBride | 1956-03-15 |
Movie | Man Without a Star | Mark Toliver | 1955-03-24 |
Movie | Strange Lady in Town | Sheriff | 1955-04-12 |
Movie | Five Guns West | J.C. Haggard | 1955-04-15 |
Movie | The Beast with a Million Eyes | Allan Kelley | 1955-06-15 |
Movie | Apache Woman | Sherrif | 1955-09-15 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
Movie | Rebel Without a Cause | Police Lieutenant (uncredited) | 1955-10-27 |
Movie | Day the World Ended | Jim Madison | 1955-12-01 |
Movie | The Fighting Chance | Auctioneer | 1955-12-15 |
Movie | Cattle Queen of Montana | Col. Carrington | 1954-11-18 |
Movie | Ride Clear of Diablo | Fred Kenyon | 1954-02-10 |
Movie | The War of the Worlds | Alonzo Hogue (uncredited) | 1953-08-13 |
Series | Hopalong Cassidy | Unknown | 1952-09-19 |
Movie | Assignment: Paris | Colonel Mannix (uncredited) | 1952-09-04 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Adventure | First Mate (uncredited) | 1945-12-28 |