Paul Birch
Acting
1912-01-13 · Atmore, Alabama, USA
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
Counterpoint
1967 · Movie
Welcome to Hard Times
1967 · Movie
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Movie
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Movie
The John Forsythe Show
1965 · Series
The Glory Guys
1965 · Movie
The Raiders
1963 · Movie
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
Arrest and Trial
1963 · Series
General Electric True
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
Sam Benedict
1962 · Series
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Movie
A Public Affair
1962 · Movie
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Series
Two Rode Together
1961 · Movie
The Tall Man
1960 · Series
Portrait in Black
1960 · Movie
Too Soon to Love
1960 · Movie
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · Series
The Alaskans
1959 · Series
Riverboat
1959 · Series
Tightrope
1959 · Series
Gunmen from Laredo
1959 · Movie
Black Saddle
1959 · Series
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Series
Cannonball
1958 · Series
The Texan
1958 · Series
Bronco
1958 · Series
Queen of Outer Space
1958 · Movie
The Gun Runners
1958 · Movie
Wild Heritage
1958 · Movie
Gunman's Walk
1958 · Movie
Sea Hunt
1958 · Series
The World Was His Jury
1958 · Movie
Joe Dakota
1957 · Movie
Trackdown
1957 · Series
The Court of Last Resort
1957 · Series
Maverick
1957 · Series
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
M Squad
1957 · Series
Wagon Train
1957 · Series
Sugarfoot
1957 · Series
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957 · Movie
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 · Movie
The Tattered Dress
1957 · Movie
Panic!
1957 · Series
Not of This Earth
1957 · Movie
The 27th Day
1957 · Movie
Gun for a Coward
1956 · Movie
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956 · Movie
Everything But the Truth
1956 · Movie
The White Squaw
1956 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 · Movie
Telephone Time
1956 · Series
When Gangland Strikes
1956 · Movie
The Fighting Chance
1955 · Movie
Day the World Ended
1955 · Movie
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Movie
Crossroads
1955 · Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Series
Cheyenne
1955 · Series
Navy Log
1955 · Series
Apache Woman
1955 · Movie
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955 · Movie
Five Guns West
1955 · Movie
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Movie
Science Fiction Theatre
1955 · Series
Man Without a Star
1955 · Movie
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954 · Movie
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954 · Movie
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Movie
You Are There
1953 · Series
I Led Three Lives
1953 · Series
Death Valley Days
1952 · Series
Hopalong Cassidy
1952 · Series
Assignment: Paris
1952 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950 · Series
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Series
Studio One
1948 · Series
Adventure
1945 · Movie