Milburn Stone
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Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke.
Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet.
His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke.
In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934).
In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong.
Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials.
In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen.
In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.
In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke.
For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
Drango
1957 · Col. Bracken
The Private War of Major Benson
1955 · Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
Smoke Signal
1955 · Sergeant Miles
White Feather
1955 · Commissioner Trenton
The Long Gray Line
1955 · Captain John J. Pershing
Black Tuesday
1954 · Father Slocum
The Siege at Red River
1954 · Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman
Arrowhead
1953 · Sandy MacKinnon
Second Chance
1953 · Edward Dawson (uncredited)
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Detective Winoki
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 · Horace K. Maydew
Invaders from Mars
1953 · Captain Roth
Behind Southern Lines
1952
The Savage
1952 · Cpl. Martin
The Atomic City
1952 · Insp. Harold Mann
The Racket
1951 · Member of Craig's Team (uncredited)
Roadblock
1951 · Ray Egan
Flying Leathernecks
1951 · Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited)
Operation Pacific
1951 · Ground Control Officer (uncredited)
The Fireball
1950 · Jeff Davis
Branded
1950 · Dawson
Snow Dog
1950 · Dr. F. J. McKenzie
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Plainclothesman
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949 · Abe Jones
Sky Dragon
1949 · Pilot Tim Norton
The Green Promise
1949 · Rev. Benton
The Judge
1949 · Martin Strang
Train to Alcatraz
1948 · Bart Kanin
Heading for Heaven
1947 · Elwood Harding
Killer McCoy
1947 · Henchman (uncredited)
Michigan Kid
1947 · Lanny Slade
Killer Dill
1947 · Maboose
Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · Announcer
Danger Woman
1946 · Gerald King
Inside Job
1946 · District Attorney Sutton
Her Adventurous Night
1946 · Cop #1
Strange Conquest
1946 · Bert Morrow
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946 · Mr. Moore
Little Giant
1946 · Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
Smooth as Silk
1946 · John Kimble (District Attorney)
The Scarlet Horseman
1946 · Narrator
Little Miss Big
1946 · Father Lennergan
The Daltons Ride Again
1945 · Parker W. Graham
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
1945 · Brad Taggart
Strange Confession
1945 · Stevens
The Beautiful Cheat
1945 · Lucius Haven
On Stage Everybody
1945 · Fitzgerald
The Frozen Ghost
1945 · George Keene
Swing Out, Sister
1945 · Tim Colby
The Master Key
1945 · Agent Tom Brant
I'll Remember April
1945 · Willie Winchester
Enemy Bacteria
1945 · Doctor
She Gets Her Man
1945 · 'Tommy Gun' Tucker
Jungle Woman
1944 · Fred Mason
Twilight on the Prairie
1944 · Gainsworth
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944 · Jim Hudson
Moon Over Las Vegas
1944 · Jim Bradley
Hi, Good Lookin'!
1944 · Bill Eaton, Gib Dickson
Prices Unlimited
1944
Weird Woman
1944
Phantom Lady
1944 · District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
Gung Ho!
1943 · Cmdr. Blake
The Mad Ghoul
1943 · Sgt. Macklin
Corvette K-225
1943 · Canadian Captain
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1943 · Capt. Pat Vickery
Destroyer
1943 · Radioman (uncredited)
Get Going
1943 · Mr. Tuttle
Captive Wild Woman
1943 · Fred Mason
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943 · Duke Redman
You Can't Beat the Law
1943 · Frank Sanders
Silent Witness
1943 · Racketeer Joe Manson
Eyes in the Night
1942 · Detective Pete (Uncredited)
Police Bullets
1942 · Johnny Reilly
Invisible Agent
1942 · German Sergeant (uncredited)
Rubber Racketeers
1942 · Angel
Pacific Rendezvous
1942 · Hotel Desk Clerk
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · Lieutenant Farragut
Frisco Lil
1942
No Hands on the Clock
1941 · FBI Agent
Death Valley Outlaws
1941 · Jeff
The Great Train Robbery
1941 · Duke Logan
The Phantom Cowboy
1941 · Stan Borden
Give Us Wings
1940 · Tex Austin
The Great Plane Robbery
1940 · Krebber
Colorado
1940 · Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
Public Deb No. 1
1940 · Reporter
Buyer Beware
1940 · Fredericks (uncredited)
American Portrait
1940 · George
Lillian Russell
1940 · Jack - Reporter
An Angel from Texas
1940 · 'Pooch' Davis
Johnny Apollo
1940 · Reporter (uncredited)
Enemy Agent
1940 · Meeker
Framed
1940 · Mathew Mattison
Chasing Trouble
1940 · Pat Callahan
The Big Guy
1939 · Publicity man (uncredited)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939 · Joe Felton
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939 · Krebs - 2d hurt worker
Crashing Thru
1939 · Delos Harrington
Fighting Mad
1939 · Cardigan
Danger Flight
1939 · Skeeter
Sky Patrol
1939 · Skeeter Milligan
Tropic Fury
1939 · Thomas E. Snell
When Tomorrow Comes
1939 · Head Busboy (uncredited)
Stunt Pilot
1939 · 'Skeeter' Milligan
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
Blind Alley
1939 · Nick
Mystery Plane
1939 · Skeeter Milligan
Society Smugglers
1939 · Peter Garfield
Tail Spin
1939 · Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
King of the Turf
1939 · Taylor
Made for Each Other
1939 · Newark Official (uncredited)
Blackwell's Island
1939 · Max (uncredited)
California Frontier
1938 · Mal Halstead
Paroled from the Big House
1938 · Commissioner Downey
Wives Under Suspicion
1938 · Kirk
Sinners in Paradise
1938 · T.L. Honeyman
Port of Missing Girls
1938 · Jim Benton
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938 · Burns
Federal Bullets
1937 · Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
Music for Madame
1937 · Detective (Uncredited)
Youth on Parole
1937 · Ratty
Atlantic Flight
1937 · Henry Wadsworth Schultz
The 13th Man
1937 · Jimmy Moran
Blazing Barriers
1937 · Joe Waters
The Wildcatter
1937 · Ed
The Man in Blue
1937 · Henchman 'Dutch'
Wings Over Honolulu
1937 · Telephone Operator
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Swing It Professor
1937 · Lou Morgan
A Doctor's Diary
1937 · Fred Clark
Banjo on My Knee
1936 · Eddie - Sailor (uncredited)
The Accusing Finger
1936 · Convict
Two in a Crowd
1936 · Kennedy (uncredited)
Murder with Pictures
1936 · Operator (uncredited)
The Three Mesquiteers
1936 · John
China Clipper
1936 · Radio Operator
The Princess Comes Across
1936 · American Reporter (uncredited)
Rendezvous
1935 · Carter's Aide (uncredited)
Cheers of the Crowd
1935 · Reporter (uncredited)
