Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 13, 1912
Died
May 24, 1969
Place of Birth
Atmore, Alabama, USA
Credits
85 titles
Paul Birch
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.
Known For
Filmography
Counterpoint
Welcome to Hard Times
Mr. Fee
A Covenant with Death
Governor
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
The John Forsythe Show
The Glory Guys
Commanding General
The Raiders
Paul King
The Fugitive
Police Captain Carpenter
Arrest and Trial
General Electric True
The Virginian
Sheriff Halsey
Sam Benedict
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Mayor Winder
A Public Affair
Malcomb Hardy
Cain's Hundred
Sheriff Rainey
Two Rode Together
Judge Edward Purcell
The Tall Man
Portrait in Black
Detective lieutenant
Too Soon to Love
Hawaiian Eye
The Alaskans
Riverboat
Sergeant Major Carmody
Tightrope
Gunmen from Laredo
Marshal Matt Crawford
Black Saddle
Mr. Simpson
77 Sunset Strip
Zachary Latimer
Cannonball
"Cannonball" Mike Malone
The Texan
Bronco
Queen of Outer Space
Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners
Sy Phillips
Wild Heritage
Jake Breslin
Gunman's Walk
Bob Selkirk
Sea Hunt
The World Was His Jury
Martin Ranker
Joe Dakota
Frank Weaver
Trackdown
The Court of Last Resort
Maverick
Perry Mason
Security Officer Frank Crawford
M Squad
Police Lt. Ruddy
Wagon Train
Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
Sugarfoot
Emmett Clark
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Banker
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Spirit of St. Louis
Blythe (uncredited)
The Tattered Dress
Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Panic!
Not of This Earth
Paul Johnson
The 27th Day
Admiral