Counterpoint
1967 · Movie
Paul Birch
1912-01-13
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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.
Filmography
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Movie
as Governor
Welcome to Hard Times
1967 · Movie
as Mr. Fee
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Movie
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The Glory Guys
1965 · Movie
as Commanding General
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The John Forsythe Show
1965 · TV Show
The Raiders
1963 · Movie
as Paul King
Arrest and Trial
1963 · TV Show
The Fugitive
1963 · TV Show
as Police Captain Carpenter
A Public Affair
1962 · Movie
as Malcomb Hardy
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Movie
as Mayor Winder
Sam Benedict
1962 · TV Show
The Virginian
1962 · TV Show
as Sheriff Halsey, Carl Bruner, John Carver, Ben Carter, Mack Lewis
General Electric True
1962 · TV Show
Two Rode Together
1961 · Movie
as Judge Edward Purcell
Cain's Hundred
1961 · TV Show
as Sheriff Rainey
Portrait in Black
1960 · Movie
as Detective lieutenant
Too Soon to Love
1960 · Movie
The Tall Man
1960 · TV Show
Gunmen from Laredo
1959 · Movie
as Marshal Matt Crawford
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · TV Show
The Alaskans
1959 · TV Show
Black Saddle
1959 · TV Show
as Mr. Simpson
Riverboat
1959 · TV Show
as Sergeant Major Carmody
Tightrope
1959 · TV Show
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Movie
as Bob Selkirk
Queen of Outer Space
1958 · Movie
as Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners
1958 · Movie
as Sy Phillips
The World Was His Jury
1958 · Movie
as Martin Ranker
Wild Heritage
1958 · Movie
as Jake Breslin
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · TV Show
as Zachary Latimer
Sea Hunt
1958 · TV Show
Cannonball
1958 · TV Show
as "Cannonball" Mike Malone
Bronco
1958 · TV Show
The Texan
1958 · TV Show
The 27th Day
1957 · Movie
as Admiral
Not of This Earth
1957 · Movie
as Paul Johnson
The Tattered Dress
1957 · Movie
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Joe Dakota
1957 · Movie
as Frank Weaver
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957 · Movie
as Banker
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 · Movie
as Blythe (uncredited)
Trackdown
1957 · TV Show
Perry Mason
1957 · TV Show
as Security Officer Frank Crawford
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV Show
M Squad
1957 · TV Show
as Police Lt. Ruddy
Sugarfoot
1957 · TV Show
as Emmett Clark
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The Court of Last Resort
1957 · TV Show
Panic!
1957 · TV Show
Maverick
1957 · TV Show
Wagon Train
1957 · TV Show
as Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant, Sam Benson
When Gangland Strikes
1956 · Movie
as Sheriff Mack McBride
The White Squaw
1956 · Movie
Gun for a Coward
1956 · Movie
as Andy Niven
Everything But the Truth
1956 · Movie
as Sen. Winter
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956 · Movie
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 · Movie
as Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Sheriff Cutler, Sheriff
Telephone Time
1956 · TV Show
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Movie
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955 · Movie
as Allan Kelley
Day the World Ended
1955 · Movie
as Jim Madison
The Fighting Chance
1955 · Movie
as Auctioneer
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Movie
as Sheriff
Apache Woman
1955 · Movie
as Sherrif
Five Guns West
1955 · Movie
as J.C. Haggard
Man Without a Star
1955 · Movie
as Mark Toliver
Cheyenne
1955 · TV Show
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV Show
as Boss, Jessie
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · TV Show
Navy Log
1955 · TV Show
Crossroads
1955 · TV Show
as Chief Crane
Science Fiction Theatre
1955 · TV Show
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954 · Movie
as Col. Carrington
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954 · Movie
as Fred Kenyon
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Movie
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
I Led Three Lives
1953 · TV Show
You Are There
1953 · TV Show
Assignment: Paris
1952 · Movie
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Death Valley Days
1952 · TV Show
as Mike Walsh, Jim Davidson
Hopalong Cassidy
1952 · TV Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Secretary of Agriculture
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · TV Show
as Doctor
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950 · TV Show
as Police Desk Sergeant
Studio One
1948 · TV Show
as Big George
Adventure
1945 · Movie
as First Mate (uncredited)
