Paul Birch
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 13, 1912
- Died
- May 24, 1969
- Birthplace
- 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
Counterpoint 1967
Actor
Welcome to Hard Times 1967
as Mr. Fee
A Covenant with Death 1967
as Governor
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round 1966
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The Glory Guys 1965
as Commanding General
The Raiders 1963
as Paul King
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
as Mayor Winder
A Public Affair 1962
as Malcomb Hardy
Two Rode Together 1961
as Judge Edward Purcell
Portrait in Black 1960
as Detective Lieutenant
Too Soon to Love 1960
Actor
Gunmen from Laredo 1959
as Marshal Matt Crawford
Queen of Outer Space 1958
as Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners 1958
as Sy Phillips
Wild Heritage 1958
as Jake Breslin
Gunman's Walk 1958
as Bob Selkirk
The World Was His Jury 1958
as Martin Ranker
Joe Dakota 1957
as Frank Weaver
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm 1957
as Banker
The Spirit of St. Louis 1957
as Blythe (uncredited)
The Tattered Dress 1957
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Not of This Earth 1957
as Paul Johnson
The 27th Day 1957
as Admiral
Gun for a Coward 1956
as Andy Niven
The Family Nobody Wanted 1956
Actor
Everything But the Truth 1956
as Sen. Winter
The White Squaw 1956
Actor
The Fastest Gun Alive 1956
as Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
When Gangland Strikes 1956
as Sheriff Mack McBride
The Fighting Chance 1955
as Auctioneer
Day the World Ended 1955
as Jim Madison
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Apache Woman 1955
as Sherrif
The Beast with a Million Eyes 1955
as Allan Kelley
Five Guns West 1955
as J.C. Haggard
Strange Lady in Town 1955
as Sheriff
Man Without a Star 1955
as Mark Toliver
Cattle Queen of Montana 1954
as Col. Carrington
Ride Clear of Diablo 1954
as Fred Kenyon
The War of the Worlds 1953
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris 1952
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Adventure 1945
as First Mate (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.