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.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mayor Winder
Rebel Without a Cause
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The War of the Worlds
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
as Judge Edward Purcell
Counterpoint
Adventure
as First Mate (uncredited)
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The Spirit of St. Louis
as Blythe (uncredited)
Gunman's Walk
as Bob Selkirk
Wild Heritage
as Jake Breslin
The Tattered Dress
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Man Without a Star
as Mark Toliver
Strange Lady in Town
as Sheriff
Gun for a Coward
as Andy Niven
The Glory Guys
as Commanding General
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Col. Carrington
A Covenant with Death
as Governor
Day the World Ended
as Jim Madison
Queen of Outer Space
as Prof. Konrad
Joe Dakota
as Frank Weaver
The Gun Runners
as Sy Phillips
Portrait in Black
as Detective lieutenant
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mr. Fee
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Fred Kenyon
Five Guns West
as J.C. Haggard
The Raiders
as Paul King
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Allan Kelley
Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
as Banker
The Fighting Chance
as Auctioneer
When Gangland Strikes
as Sheriff Mack McBride
The 27th Day
as Admiral
The White Squaw
Gunmen from Laredo
as Marshal Matt Crawford
Apache Woman
as Sherrif
Too Soon to Love
The World Was His Jury
as Martin Ranker
Everything But the Truth
as Sen. Winter
A Public Affair
as Malcomb Hardy
