Cast
Paul Birch
Acting
Cast
Paul Birch
Known for
Acting
Born
1912-01-13
From
Atmore, Alabama, USA
Died
1969-05-24
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. 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.
★7.8
MOVIE1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mayor Winder
★6.8
MOVIE1953
The War of the Worlds
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1955
Rebel Without a Cause
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1967
Counterpoint
★6.4
MOVIE1961
Two Rode Together
as Judge Edward Purcell
★6.9
MOVIE1956
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
★6.7
MOVIE1957
The Spirit of St. Louis
as Blythe (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1957
The Tattered Dress
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
★4.5
MOVIE1955
Five Guns West
as J.C. Haggard
★5.3
MOVIE1967
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mr. Fee
★6.1
MOVIE1954
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Fred Kenyon
★4.8
MOVIE1967
A Covenant with Death
as Governor
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Man Without a Star
as Mark Toliver
★6.5
MOVIE1965
The Glory Guys
as Commanding General
★4.9
MOVIE1955
Strange Lady in Town
as Sheriff
★5.7
MOVIE1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Col. Carrington
★4.7
MOVIE1958
Queen of Outer Space
as Prof. Konrad
★5.9
MOVIE1952
Assignment: Paris
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1958
The Gun Runners
as Sy Phillips
★5.0
MOVIE1955
Day the World Ended
as Jim Madison
★6.2
MOVIE1957
The 27th Day
as Admiral
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Gun for a Coward
as Andy Niven
★5.7
MOVIE1957
Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
★5.4
MOVIE1959
Gunmen from Laredo
as Marshal Matt Crawford
★6.8
MOVIE1956
The White Squaw
★6.1
MOVIE1958
The World Was His Jury
as Martin Ranker
★5.0
MOVIE1955
Apache Woman
as Sherrif
★5.7
MOVIE1960
Portrait in Black
as Detective lieutenant
★4.6
MOVIE1960
Too Soon to Love
★6.0
MOVIE1956
When Gangland Strikes
as Sheriff Mack McBride
★6.7
MOVIE1957
Joe Dakota
as Frank Weaver
★6.7
MOVIE1958
Gunman's Walk
as Bob Selkirk
★3.8
MOVIE1955
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Allan Kelley
★6.0
MOVIE1958
Wild Heritage
as Jake Breslin
★5.6
MOVIE1966
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
MOVIE1956
The Family Nobody Wanted
★8.2
MOVIE1956
Everything But the Truth
as Sen. Winter
★4.8
MOVIE1963
The Raiders
as Paul King
★6.4
MOVIE1945
Adventure
as First Mate (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1955
The Fighting Chance
as Auctioneer
★9.0
MOVIE1957
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
as Banker
★7.0
MOVIE1962
A Public Affair
as Malcomb Hardy