Paul Birch
Born January 13, 1912 (Age: 114)
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Atmore, Alabama, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
The Glory Guys
1965
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as Commanding General
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Age: 53
The Raiders
1963
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as Paul King
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Age: 51
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
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as Mayor Winder
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Age: 50
A Public Affair
1962
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as Malcomb Hardy
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Age: 50
Two Rode Together
1961
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as Judge Edward Purcell
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Age: 49
Portrait in Black
1960
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as Detective lieutenant
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Age: 48
Too Soon to Love
1960
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as
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Age: 48
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
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as Marshal Matt Crawford
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Age: 47
Queen of Outer Space
1958
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as Prof. Konrad
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Age: 46
The Gun Runners
1958
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as Sy Phillips
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Age: 46
Wild Heritage
1958
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as Jake Breslin
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Age: 46
Gunman's Walk
1958
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as Bob Selkirk
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Age: 46
The World Was His Jury
1958
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as Martin Ranker
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Age: 45
Gun for a Coward
1956
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as Andy Niven
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Age: 44
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956
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as
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Age: 44
Everything But the Truth
1956
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as Sen. Winter
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Age: 44
The White Squaw
1956
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as
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Age: 44
When Gangland Strikes
1956
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as Sheriff Mack McBride
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Age: 44
The Fighting Chance
1955
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as Auctioneer
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Age: 43
Day the World Ended
1955
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as Jim Madison
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Age: 43
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
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as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Age: 43
Apache Woman
1955
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as Sherrif
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Age: 43
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
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as Allan Kelley
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Age: 43
Five Guns West
1955
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as J.C. Haggard
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Age: 43
Strange Lady in Town
1955
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as Sheriff
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Age: 43
Man Without a Star
1955
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as Mark Toliver
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Age: 43
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
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as Col. Carrington
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Age: 42
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
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as Fred Kenyon
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Age: 42
The War of the Worlds
1953
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as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Adventure
1945
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as First Mate (uncredited)
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Age: 33