Paul Birch
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).
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Movies (42)
Counterpoint
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
1967 · Mr. Fee
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Governor
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The Glory Guys
1965 · Commanding General
The Raiders
1963 · Paul King
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Mayor Winder
A Public Affair
1962 · Malcomb Hardy
Two Rode Together
1961 · Judge Edward Purcell
Portrait in Black
1960 · Detective Lieutenant
Too Soon to Love
1960
Gunmen from Laredo
1959 · Marshal Matt Crawford
Queen of Outer Space
1958 · Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners
1958 · Sy Phillips
Wild Heritage
1958 · Jake Breslin
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Bob Selkirk
The World Was His Jury
1958 · Martin Ranker
Joe Dakota
1957 · Frank Weaver
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957 · Banker
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 · Blythe (uncredited)
The Tattered Dress
1957 · Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Not of This Earth
1957 · Paul Johnson
The 27th Day
1957 · Admiral
Gun for a Coward
1956 · Andy Niven
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956
Everything But the Truth
1956 · Sen. Winter
The White Squaw
1956
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 · Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
When Gangland Strikes
1956 · Sheriff Mack McBride
The Fighting Chance
1955 · Auctioneer
Day the World Ended
1955 · Jim Madison
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Apache Woman
1955 · Sherrif
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955 · Allan Kelley
Five Guns West
1955 · J.C. Haggard
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Sheriff
Man Without a Star
1955 · Mark Toliver
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954 · Col. Carrington
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954 · Fred Kenyon
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris
1952 · Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Adventure
1945 · First Mate (uncredited)
TV shows (43)
The John Forsythe Show
1965
The Fugitive
1963 · Police Captain Carpenter
Arrest and Trial
1963
General Electric True
1962
The Virginian
1962 · Sheriff Halsey, Carl Bruner, John Carver, Ben Carter, Mack Lewis
Sam Benedict
1962
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Sheriff Rainey
The Tall Man
1960
Hawaiian Eye
1959
The Alaskans
1959
Riverboat
1959 · Sergeant Major Carmody
Tightrope
1959
Black Saddle
1959 · Mr. Simpson
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Zachary Latimer
Cannonball
1958 · "Cannonball" Mike Malone
The Texan
1958
Bronco
1958
Sea Hunt
1958
Trackdown
1957
The Court of Last Resort
1957
Maverick
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · Security Officer Frank Crawford
M Squad
1957 · Police Lt. Ruddy
Wagon Train
1957 · Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant, Sam Benson
Sugarfoot
1957 · Emmett Clark
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Panic!
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Sheriff Cutler, Sheriff
Telephone Time
1956
Crossroads
1955 · Chief Crane
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Navy Log
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Boss, Jessie
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
You Are There
1953
I Led Three Lives
1953
Death Valley Days
1952 · Mike Walsh, Jim Davidson
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Secretary of Agriculture
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950 · Police Desk Sergeant
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Doctor
Studio One
1948 · Big George