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Paul Birch

Paul Birch

Actor · 1912 – 1969 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.5

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955 · 1.8K votes

  • Movie6.8

    The War of the Worlds

    1953 · 731 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Spirit of St. Louis

    1957 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Fastest Gun Alive

    1956 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Man Without a Star

    1955 · 125 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Gunman's Walk

    1958 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Gun for a Coward

    1956 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Two Rode Together

    1961 · 159 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Queen of Outer Space

    1958 · 47 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Welcome to Hard Times

    1967 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Portrait in Black

    1960 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Counterpoint

    1967 · 23 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Strange Lady in Town

    1955 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie5.7

    Not of This Earth

    1957 · 72 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Gun Runners

    1958 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Cattle Queen of Montana

    1954 · 30 votes

  • Movie3.8
  • Movie6.2

    The 27th Day

    1957 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Joe Dakota

    1957 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Day the World Ended

    1955 · 74 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Ride Clear of Diablo

    1954 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Glory Guys

    1965 · 35 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV6.2

    Cheyenne

    1955 · 26 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.0

    The Texan

    1958 · 6 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.5

    Telephone Time

    1956 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    Sugarfoot

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV5.4

    M Squad

    1957 · 7 votes

  • TV6.7

    Sea Hunt

    1958 · 20 votes

  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Tall Man

    1960 · 7 votes

  • TV8.3

    Arrest and Trial

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Alaskans

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV6.9

    Trackdown

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.2

    Black Saddle

    1959 · 5 votes