Cast
Morris Ankrum
Acting
Cast
Morris Ankrum
Known for
Acting
Born
1896-08-28
From
Danville, Illinois, USA
Died
1964-09-02
Also known as Morris Nussbaum, Morris Winslow Ankrum, Morrie Ankrum
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor. Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939. Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres. Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Chain Lightning
as Ed Bostwick
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Desire Me
as Hector Martin
★6.7
MOVIE1968
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
★7.6
MOVIE1950
In a Lonely Place
as Lloyd Barnes
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Washington Press Correspondent
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Road Agent
as Big John Morgan
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Fighting Coast Guard
as Navy Captain
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Swing Fever
as Dan Conlon
★6.8
MOVIE1949
The Fountainhead
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1954
Vera Cruz
as Gen. Ramírez
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Phantoms, Inc.
as Narrator (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE1946
Courage of Lassie
as Farmer Crews
★7.5
MOVIE1946
The Cockeyed Miracle
as Dr. Wilson
★6.6
MOVIE1958
Tarawa Beachhead
as Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
as Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Joan of Arc
as Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
★3.5
MOVIE1957
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Dr. Carl Jordan
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Fighting Back
as Robert J. Higby
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Hiawatha
as Iagoo
★5.4
MOVIE1951
The Redhead and the Cowboy
as Sheriff
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Roxie Hart
as Martin S. Harrison
★5.6
MOVIE1952
Son of Ali Baba
as Ali Baba
★7.7
MOVIE1945
Purity Squad
as Dr. Adams (uncredited)
★4.9
MOVIE1950
Rocketship X-M
as Dr. Ralph Fleming
★7.1
MOVIE1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Judge (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Fall Guy
as District Attorney (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1953
Invaders from Mars
as Col. Fielding
★6.1
MOVIE1947
The Sea of Grass
as A.J. Crane
★6.3
MOVIE1949
We Were Strangers
as M. Seymour
★6.2
MOVIE1954
Silver Lode
as Zachary Evans
★6.6
MOVIE1946
The Harvey Girls
as Reverend Claggett
★6.1
MOVIE1954
Apache
as Dawson
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Green Years
as Dr. Galbraith
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Judge
★6.1
MOVIE1956
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
as Brig. Gen. John Hanley
★5.5
MOVIE1947
Little Mister Jim
as Col. W.I. Starwell
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Damned Don't Cry
as Jim Whitehead
★7.0
MOVIE1954
The Steel Cage
as Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
★6.1
MOVIE1942
Time to Kill
as Alexander Morny
★5.5
MOVIE1955
The Silver Star
as Charlie Childress
★6.0
MOVIE1953
The Man Behind The Gun
as Bram Creegan
★4.0
MOVIE1957
Beginning of the End
as Gen. John Hanson
★7.4
MOVIE1951
Along the Great Divide
as Ed Roden
★6.1
MOVIE1946
Lady in the Lake
as Eugene Grayson
★6.0
MOVIE1951
My Favorite Spy
as Gen. Frazer
★5.3
MOVIE1964
Guns of Diablo
as Ray Macklin
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Colorado Territory
as United States Marshal
★6.9
MOVIE1941
I Wake Up Screaming
as Assistant District Attorney
★6.7
MOVIE1947
Song of the Thin Man
as Inspector (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Two Guns and a Badge
as Sheriff Jackson
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Reunion in France
as Martin
★7.1
MOVIE1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Willoughby Peavy
★6.6
MOVIE1963
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
as Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1955
The Last Command
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Down Liberty Road
as Fred Schroder
★4.8
MOVIE1957
The Giant Claw
as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Chief Crazy Horse
as Red Cloud
★5.7
MOVIE1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
as J.I. 'Pop' Jones
★5.7
MOVIE1958
How to Make a Monster
as Police Capt. Hancock
★5.7
MOVIE1958
Curse of the Faceless Man
as Narrator (unconfirmed)
★4.9
MOVIE1952
Red Planet Mars
as Secretary of Defense Sparks
★6.4
MOVIE1947
High Wall
as Dr. Stanley Griffin
★5.6
MOVIE1954
Taza, Son of Cochise
as Grey Eagle
★5.9
MOVIE1962
Tower of London
as The Archbishop
★5.8
MOVIE1957
Omar Khayyam
as Sharain's Father
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Buck Benny Rides Again
as Second Outlaw
★5.9
MOVIE1956
Walk the Proud Land
as Gen. Wade
★6.4
MOVIE1947
Good News
as Dean Griswold
★5.2
MOVIE1952
Mutiny
as Capt. Radford
MOVIE1953
I Beheld His Glory
as Peter
★6.4
MOVIE1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown
as Bo Slauter
★5.2
MOVIE1951
Flight to Mars
as Ikron
★7.0
MOVIE1942
The Omaha Trail
as Henchman Job
★6.4
MOVIE1943
The Cross of Lorraine
as Col. Demas (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Duel on the Mississippi
as Magistrate (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1958
Twilight for the Gods
as Sea Captain
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Tennessee's Partner
as Judge Parker
★6.3
MOVIE1954
Southwest Passage
as Dr. Stanton
★6.0
MOVIE1953
The Moonlighter
as Alexander Prince
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Short Grass
as Hal Fenton
★6.3
MOVIE1956
Fury at Gunsight Pass
as Doc Phillips
★5.8
MOVIE1954
Drums Across the River
as Chief Ouray
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tennessee Johnson
as Jefferson Davis
★7.3
MOVIE1948
Souvenirs of Death
as Gangster (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1950
Borderline
as Bill Whittaker
★5.4
MOVIE1961
Most Dangerous Man Alive
as Capt. Davis
★5.5
MOVIE1957
Zombies of Mora Tau
as Dr. Jonathan Eggert
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Drango
as Henry Calder
★6.1
MOVIE1941
Ride 'Em Cowboy
as Ace Anderson
★7.9
MOVIE1945
The Hidden Eye
as Ferris (henchman)
★5.5
MOVIE1944
Barbary Coast Gent
as Alec Veeder
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Because of You
as Dr. Travis
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Devil's Canyon
as Ed
★6.8
MOVIE1943
Best Foot Forward
as Col. Harkrider
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Arena
as Bucky Hillberry
★5.3
MOVIE1958
From the Earth to the Moon
as President Ulysses S. Grant
★6.5
MOVIE1949
Bad Men of Tombstone
as Mr. Jones
★6.4
MOVIE1945
Adventure
as Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1940
Three Men from Texas
as Bruce Morgan
★4.4
MOVIE1958
Giant from the Unknown
as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
★5.3
MOVIE1941
Doomed Caravan
as Stephen Westcott
★5.6
MOVIE1944
The Heavenly Body
as Dr. Green
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Southside 1-1000
as Eugene Deane
★5.6
MOVIE1958
Badman's Country
as Mayor Coleman
★5.0
MOVIE1940
The Light of Western Stars
as Nat Hayworth
★4.5
MOVIE1941
This Woman Is Mine
as Roussel
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Fort Osage
as Arthur Pickett
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Cynthia
as Mr. Phillips, Principal
★5.2
MOVIE1956
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
as Col. Harry Conover
★6.4
MOVIE1953
Fort Vengeance
as Chief Crowfoot
★5.7
MOVIE1957
Kronos
as Dr. Albert Stern
★6.0
MOVIE1956
When Gangland Strikes
as Leo Fantzler
★6.6
MOVIE1941
The Bandit Trail
as Red Haggerty
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Borderland
as Loco
★6.3
MOVIE1947
Merton of the Movies
as Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1940
Cherokee Strip
as Hawk Barrett
★5.6
MOVIE1954
Three Young Texans
as Jeff Blair
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Hell's Crossroads
as Wheeler
★6.4
MOVIE1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Ed Scofield
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Tomorrow Is Another Day
as Hugh Wagner
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Wood
★6.8
MOVIE1936
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
as Blackie Felton
★6.3
MOVIE1952
The Raiders
as Thomas Ainsworth
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Wide Open Town
as Jim Stuart
★8.9
MOVIE1944
Dark Shadows
as Lt. Pat McKay
★6.1
MOVIE1942
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Mr. Graham
★5.4
MOVIE1943
Let's Face It
as Man in Sun Shell Cafe
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Gentle Annie
as Deputy Gansby
★5.8
MOVIE1944
Meet the People
as Monte Rowland
★6.6
MOVIE1955
The Eternal Sea
as Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Flight Nurse
as Interrogation Officer
★9.0
MOVIE1941
The Roundup
as 'Parenthesis'
★8.0
MOVIE1952
A Star Shall Rise
as King Herod
★7.3
MOVIE1954
The Outlaw Stallion
as Sheriff
★6.7
MOVIE1955
Crashout
as Head Guard
★6.2
MOVIE1948
For the Love of Mary
as Adm. Walton
★5.0
MOVIE1955
No Man's Woman
as Capt. Hostedder
★6.7
MOVIE1947
The Mighty McGurk
as Fowles
★6.7
MOVIE1937
North of the Rio Grande
as Henry Stoneham
★6.4
MOVIE1956
Naked Gun
as Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Power of the Resurrection
as Annas
★6.7
MOVIE1953
Sky Commando
as Gen. W.R. Combs
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Dixie Dugan
as Editor
★6.8
MOVIE1958
Frontier Gun
as Andrew Barton
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Main Street Today
as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Knights of the Range
as Gamecock
★4.0
MOVIE1944
Rationing
as Morgan
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Trail Dust
as Tex Anderson
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Return from Nowhere
as Doctor (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1937
Hills of Old Wyoming
as Andrews
★6.3
MOVIE1951
The Lion Hunters
as Tom Forbes
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Pirates on Horseback
as Ace Gibson
★6.4
MOVIE1941
In Old Colorado
as Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
★6.3
MOVIE1948
The Fabulous Fraud
as Blind Girl's Father
★6.0
MOVIE1940
The Showdown
as Baron Rendor
★4.3
MOVIE1961
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
as Gen. Lew Wallace
★4.2
MOVIE1958
Young and Wild
as Police Capt. Egan
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Border Vigilantes
as Dan Forbes
★5.8
MOVIE1937
Rustlers' Valley
as Glen Randall
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Mexican Manhunt
as Tip Morgan
★8.0
MOVIE1956
The Desperados Are in Town
as Mr. Rutherford
★3.5
MOVIE1955
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
as Azar the Shepherd