Paul Birch
- Recitazione
- 13 gennaio 1912 · Atmore, Alabama, USA
- 24 maggio 1969
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Sinfonia di guerra
- Tempo di terrore · Mr. Fee
- L'uomo che uccise il suo carnefice · Governor
- Alle donne piace ladro · Bill Simpson (uncredited)
- The John Forsythe Show
- Doringo! · Commanding General
- I temerari del West · Paul King
- The Fugitive · Police Captain Carpenter
- Arrest and Trial
- General Electric True
- Il virginiano · Sheriff Halsey, Carl Bruner
- Sam Benedict
- L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance · Mayor Winder
- A Public Affair · Malcomb Hardy
- Lotta senza quartiere · Sheriff Rainey
- Cavalcarono insieme · Judge Edward Purcell
- The Tall Man
- Ritratto in nero · 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
- Indirizzo permanente · Zachary Latimer
- Cannonball · "Cannonball" Mike Malone
- The Texan
- Bronco
- La regina di Venere · Prof. Konrad
- Agguato nei Caraibi · Sy Phillips
- Eredità selvaggia · Jake Breslin
- Il sentiero della violenza · Bob Selkirk
- L'uomo del mare
- Tribunale senza magistrati · Martin Ranker
- Il ritorno di Joe Dakota · Frank Weaver
- Trackdown
- The Court of Last Resort
- Maverick
- Perry Mason · Security Officer Frank Crawford
- Il tenente Ballinger · Police Lt. Ruddy
- Carovane verso il west · Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant, Sam Benson
- Sugarfoot · Emmett Clark
- The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm · Banker
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- L'aquila solitaria · Blythe (uncredited)
- Il vestito strappato · Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
- Panico
- Il vampiro del pianeta rosso · Paul Johnson
- I 27 giorni del pianeta Sigma · Admiral
- Una pistola per un vile · Andy Niven
- The Family Nobody Wanted
- Everything But the Truth · Sen. Winter
- The White Squaw
- I racconti del West · Sheriff Cutler, Sheriff
- La pistola sepolta · Sheriff Bill Toledo (Yellowfork)
- Telephone Time
- When Gangland Strikes · Sheriff Mack McBride
- The Fighting Chance · Auctioneer
- Il mostro del pianeta perduto · Jim Madison
- Gioventù bruciata · Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Crossroads · Chief Crane
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Cheyenne
- Navy Log
- La meticcia di fuoco · Sherrif
- Gunsmoke · Boss, Jessie
- The Beast with a Million Eyes · Allan Kelley
- Cinque colpi di pistola · J.C. Haggard
- La straniera · Sheriff
- Scienza e fantasia
- L'uomo senza paura · Mark Toliver
- La regina del Far West · Col. Carrington
- La mano vendicatrice · Fred Kenyon
- La guerra dei mondi · Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
- You Are There
- I Led Three Lives
- Death Valley Days · Mike Walsh, Jim Davidson
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Destinazione Budapest · Colonel Mannix (uncredited)