Paul Birch
42 movies · 43 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 13, 1912
- Died
- May 24, 1969 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Atmore, Alabama, USA
Biography
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.
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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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Paul Birch: movies and TV shows
Acting (85)
- 1967
- 1967 Welcome to Hard Times
as Mr. Fee
- 1967 A Covenant with Death
as Governor
- 1966 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
- 1965
- 1965 The Glory Guys
as Commanding General
- 1963 The Raiders
as Paul King
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962 The Virginian · TV
as Sheriff Halsey / Carl Bruner / Ben Carter / John Carver / Mack Lewis · 5 episodes
- 1962
- 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mayor Winder
- 1962 A Public Affair
as Malcomb Hardy
- 1961
- 1961 Two Rode Together
as Judge Edward Purcell
- 1960
- 1960 Portrait in Black
as Detective Lieutenant
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Gunmen from Laredo
as Marshal Matt Crawford
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Queen of Outer Space
as Prof. Konrad
- 1958 The Gun Runners
as Sy Phillips
- 1958 Wild Heritage
as Jake Breslin
- 1958 Gunman's Walk
as Bob Selkirk
- 1958
- 1958 The World Was His Jury
as Martin Ranker
- 1957 Joe Dakota
as Frank Weaver
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
as Blythe (uncredited)
- 1957 The Tattered Dress
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
- 1957
- 1957 Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
- 1957 The 27th Day
as Admiral
- 1956 Gun for a Coward
as Andy Niven
- 1956
- 1956 Everything But the Truth
as Sen. Winter
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 The Fastest Gun Alive
as Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
- 1956
- 1956 When Gangland Strikes
as Sheriff Mack McBride
- 1955 The Fighting Chance
as Auctioneer
- 1955 Day the World Ended
as Jim Madison
- 1955 Rebel Without a Cause
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 Apache Woman
as Sherrif
- 1955
- 1955 The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Allan Kelley
- 1955 Five Guns West
as J.C. Haggard
- 1955 Strange Lady in Town
as Sheriff
- 1955
- 1955 Man Without a Star
as Mark Toliver
- 1954 Cattle Queen of Montana
as Col. Carrington
- 1954 Ride Clear of Diablo
as Fred Kenyon
- 1953 The War of the Worlds
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
- 1953
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Assignment: Paris
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
- 1951
- 1950
- 1950
- 1948
- 1945 Adventure
as First Mate (uncredited)