Paul Birch
Acting • Born 1912-01-13 – 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.
Filmography
93 credits
Rebel Without a Cause
Movie • 1955
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The 27th Day
Movie • 1957
Admiral
Not of This Earth
Movie • 1957
Paul Johnson
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Movie • 1955
Allan Kelley
Day the World Ended
Movie • 1955
Jim Madison
The Fighting Chance
Movie • 1955
Auctioneer
Gunman's Walk
Movie • 1958
Bob Selkirk
Queen of Outer Space
Movie • 1958
Prof. Konrad
Portrait in Black
Movie • 1960
Detective lieutenant
When Gangland Strikes
Movie • 1956
Sheriff Mack McBride
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1966
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The Gun Runners
Movie • 1958
Sy Phillips
The Tattered Dress
Movie • 1957
Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Strange Lady in Town
Movie • 1955
Sheriff
Gunmen from Laredo
Movie • 1959
Marshal Matt Crawford
The World Was His Jury
Movie • 1958
Martin Ranker
Apache Woman
Movie • 1955
Sherrif
Joe Dakota
Movie • 1957
Frank Weaver
Counterpoint
Movie • 1967
A Covenant with Death
Movie • 1967
Governor
Wild Heritage
Movie • 1958
Jake Breslin
A Public Affair
Movie • 1962
Malcomb Hardy
Two Rode Together
Movie • 1961
Judge Edward Purcell
The White Squaw
Movie • 1956
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie • 1962
Mayor Winder
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Movie • 1957
Banker
The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie • 1957
Blythe (uncredited)
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie • 1967
Mr. Fee
The Raiders
Movie • 1963
Paul King
Five Guns West
Movie • 1955
J.C. Haggard
Cattle Queen of Montana
Movie • 1954
Col. Carrington
Ride Clear of Diablo
Movie • 1954
Fred Kenyon
Man Without a Star
Movie • 1955
Mark Toliver
Gun for a Coward
Movie • 1956
Andy Niven
Adventure
Movie • 1945
First Mate (uncredited)
The War of the Worlds
Movie • 1953
Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris
Movie • 1952
Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Everything But the Truth
Movie • 1956
Sen. Winter
Too Soon to Love
Movie • 1960
The Glory Guys
Movie • 1965
Commanding General
The Family Nobody Wanted
Movie • 1956
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Zachary Latimer
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Sheriff Rainey
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Boss
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Security Officer Frank Crawford
Studio One
TV • 1948
Big George
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Secretary of Agriculture
Sea Hunt
TV • 1958
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Police Captain Carpenter
Cannonball
TV • 1958
"Cannonball" Mike Malone
I Led Three Lives
TV • 1953
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Sheriff Halsey
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Doctor
M Squad
TV • 1957
Police Lt. Ruddy
Bronco
TV • 1958
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
You Are There
TV • 1953
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
Navy Log
TV • 1955
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Mr. Simpson
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Emmett Clark
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Sergeant Major Carmody
The Texan
TV • 1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sheriff Cutler
The John Forsythe Show
TV • 1965
General Electric True
TV • 1962
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Mike Walsh
Tightrope
TV • 1959
The Court of Last Resort
TV • 1957
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Panic!
TV • 1957
Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952
Maverick
TV • 1957
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV • 1950
Police Desk Sergeant
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Carl Bruner
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Ben Carter
The Virginian
TV • 1962
John Carver
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mack Lewis
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jessie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sheriff
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Sam Benson
Crossroads
TV • 1955
Chief Crane
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Jim Davidson
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Science Fiction Theatre
TV • 1955