Paul Hurst

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-10-14 (65 years old)

Deathday

1953-02-27

Place of Birth

Traver, California, USA

Paul Hurst

Biography

Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was direct...

Acting

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Monty Smith

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Yankee Deserter

1932

Island of Lost Souls

as Capt. Donahue

1930

1947

Angel and the Badman

as Frederick Carson

1945

1926

Roaring Road

as Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited)

1941

Petticoat Politics

as Slats O'Dell

1937

Trouble in Morocco

as Tiger Malone

1931

The Secret Six

as Nick Mizoski - the Gouger

1912

The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach

as Bad Bill - a Desperado

1945

Scared Stiff

as Sheriff

1917

The Railroad Raiders

as Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst)

1917

The Hazards of Helen

as Benton - a Foreman

1915

The Girl Detective

as Blair / Thompson / Michaels / Snake Henely / Mike Donegal / Bat Dorgan / Kelly / Dalton / Blake

1943

Hi'ya, Chum

as Archie Billings

1940

The Westerner

as Chickenfoot

1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Bill Mulligan

1951

1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Florabelle's Father

1932

The Big Stampede

as 'Arizona' Frank Bailey

1923

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)

1944

Summer Storm

as Orloff

1933

The Sphinx

as Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan

1938

Topper Takes a Trip

as Charlie - the Bartender

1935

The Gay Deception

as Bell Captain

1916

Whispering Smith

as Murray Sinclair

1937

Angel's Holiday

as Sgt. Murphy

1941

1914

The Quicksands

as Captain Lanning - Osborn's Rival

1932

The Thirteenth Guest

as Detective Grump

1931

Bad Company

as Paul Hurst

1914

1938

1929

The Racketeer

as Mehaffy - Policeman

1943

December 7th

as World War I Ghost Soldier

1918

Rimrock Jones

as Ike Bray

1915

Stingaree

as Howie - Stingaree's Partner

1933

Terror Aboard

as Boatswain

1937

1941

Caught in the Draft

as Sgt. Burns

1953

The Sun Shines Bright

as Jimmy Bagby

1915

The Red Signal

as Chief Dispatcher

1914

The Plot at the Railroad Cut

as Benton, the Foreman

1935

Sequoia

as Bergman

1916

Medicine Bend

as Murray Sinclair

1916

Judith of the Cumberlands

as Blatchley Turrentine

1916

The Diamond Runners

as Paul - the Brains of the I.D.B.

1942

Night in New Orleans

as Sergeant Casper Riordan

1939

Broadway Serenade

as Reynolds, a Drunk

1930

Swellhead

as Mugsy

1937

Danger – Love at Work

as NYC policeman

1938

1930

Borrowed Wives

as Bull Morgan

1949

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

as Sheriff Jug Mason

1931

That's My Line

as Mexican Bandit

1937

Second Honeymoon

as Dennis Huggins

1934

Midnight Alibi

as Babe the Butcher

1936

I'd Give My Life

as "Sport" Conly

1928

The Cossacks

as Sitchi

1943

Calaboose

as Ed the bartender

1931

Sweepstakes

as Bartender

1930

Hot Curves

as 'Slug', Baseball Player

1935

Shadow of Doubt

as Lt. Sackville

1938

Secrets of a Nurse

as Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh

1945

The Big Show-Off

as Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler

1939

Remember?

as Policeman

1939

Bad Lands

as Curly Tom

1937

1944

Girl Rush

as Muley

1941

Virginia

as Thomas

1938

Prison Break

as Soapy

1938

1943

The Sky's the Limit

as Dock Foreman (uncredited)

1944

Something for the Boys

as Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited)

1930

The Runaway Bride

as Sergeant Daly

1938

1930

Officer O'Brien

as Captain Antrim

1932

State's Attorney

as Police Captain Morgan

1927

The Devil's Saddle

as 'Swig' Moran

1931

1929

The California Mail

as Rowdy Ryan

1932

1927

The Red Raiders

as Sergeant Murphy

1929

1930

Lucky Larkin

as Pete Brierson

1930

Mountain Justice

as Lem Harland

1913

1937

1937

1929

1930

Shadow of the Law

as Pete Shore

1937

Slave Ship

as Drunk

1938

Josette

as A. Adolphus Heyman

1919

Lightning Bryce

as Powder Solvang

1935

Public Hero Number 1

as Rufe Parker

1929

Sailor's Holiday

as Jimmylegs

1937

1937

You Can't Have Everything

as Truck Driver (uncredited)

1939

Cafe Society

as Bartender

1928

Lilac Time

as (uncredited)

1931

The Secret Witness

as Officer Brannigan

1934

Tomorrow's Youth

as Detective

1935

Maybe It's Love

as Expressman (uncredited)

1939

On Your Toes

as Variety Club Bartender

1939

1939

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

as Empire State Building Guard

1934

Take the Stand

as Denny O'Brien

1949

Prince of the Plains

as Sheriff Hank Hartley

1939

Glove Slingers

as Chuck Brenner

1949

Pioneer Marshal

as Huck Homer

1940

Spring Parade

as Headwaiter

1949

San Antone Ambush

as Happy Daniels

1932

The Phantom President

as Sailor (uncredited)

1934

Among the Missing

as Capt. W.F. 'Big Bill' Connors

1948

The Arizona Ranger

as Ben Riddle

1933

1929

Oh, Yeah!

as Railroad-Yard Superintendent

1932

1941

The Great Mr. Nobody

as Michael O'Connor

1935

The Daring Young Man

as Prison Guard

1949

South of Rio

as Andy Weems

1915

The Vivisectionist

as Bart - Jardine's Servant

1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as 1st Deputy (uncredited)

1945

Dakota

as Captain Spotts

1940

Edison, the Man

as Sheriff

1937

You Can't Beat Love

as Foreman Butch Mehaffey

1946

Death Valley

as Sergeant Dailey

1948

Madonna of the Desert

as Pete Connors

1943

Coney Island

as Louie

1931

Maker of Men

as Gabby

1936

North of Nome

as Carlson

1938

No Time to Marry

as Sergeant

1941

The Parson of Panamint

as Jake Waldren

1948

1938

The Last Express

as Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer

1948

Gun Smugglers

as Sergeant Hasty Jones

1937

1946

In Old Sacramento

as Stagecoach Driver

1945

1948

California Firebrand

as Chuck Waggoner

1918

1933

Queen Christina

as Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)

1940

Castle on the Hudson

as Guard (uncredited)

1940

They Drive by Night

as Pete Haig (uncredited)

1940

Torrid Zone

as Daniels

1932

1950

The Missourians

as John X. Finn

1950

The Old Frontier

as Skipper Horton

1941

This Woman Is Mine

as Second Mate Mumford

1942

Sundown Jim

as Broderick

1952

Big Jim McLain

as Mr. Lexiter

1931

Kick In

as Detective Whip Fogarty

1947

Under Colorado Skies

as Lucky John Hawkins

1935

Carnival

as Policeman

1950

The Vanishing Westerner

as Waldorf Worthington

1949

1949

Outcasts of the Trail

as Doc Meadowlark

1936

The Gay Desperado

as American Detective

1948

Yellow Sky

as Drunk (uncredited)

1944

Barbary Coast Gent

as Jake Compton

1933

Saturday's Millions

as Doc Maloney, Trainer

1948

Heart of Virginia

as Whit Galtry

1937

Super-Sleuth

as Motorcycle Cop

1940

Star Dust

as Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech

1933

1934

The Big Race

as Skipper O'Neal

1933

The Women in His Life

as Paul, Perez's Second Bodyguard

1933

Grand Slam

as Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film

1927

1942

1944

The Ghost That Walks Alone

as Sheriff Slim Carson

1936

Blackmailer

as Inspector Killian

1940

1927

Buttons

as Slugger McGlue

1916

The Manager of the B & A

as Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst)

1930

The Third Alarm

as 'Beauty' Johnson

1939

Quick Millions

as Sheriff

1935

Mississippi

as Hefty

1929

His First Command

as Sgt. Westbrook

1936

Riffraff

as Belcher

1934

1934

Charlie Chan's Courage

as Undetermined Role

1935

Calm Yourself

as Detective Roscoe

1933

Hold Your Man

as Aubrey C. Mitchell (uncredited)

1935

The Case of the Curious Bride

as Fibo Morgan (uncredited)

Production

1915

The Red Signal

as Director

1918

1918

1924

Branded a Bandit

as Director

1925

The Demon Rider

as Director

1923

Golden Silence

as Director

1926

Haunted Range

as Director

1921

1926

Roaring Road

as Director

1919

Lightning Bryce

as Director

1926

1925

1922

Rangeland

as Director

1922

Rangeland

as Writer

1922

1922

The Heart of a Texan

as Scenario Writer

1921

1921

King Fisher's Roost

as Scenario Writer

1922

Table Top Ranch

as Director

1922

1922

Table Top Ranch

as Scenario Writer

1924

1924

Branded a Bandit

as Scenario Writer

1924

Battling Bunyan

as Director

1925

The Were-Tiger

as Director

1926

1919

1927

1926

1925

The Fighting Cub

as Director

1917

1922

The Crow's Nest

as Director

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