Mort Mills

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-01-11 (74 years old)

Deathday

1993-06-06

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Mort Mills

Biography

Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957–1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley. He portrayed supporting roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966), and in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). From Wikipedia, ...

Acting

1960

Psycho

as Highway Patrol Officer

1958

Touch of Evil

as Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant

1966

Torn Curtain

as Farmer

1965

The Outlaws Is Coming

as Trigger Mortis

1968

The Name of the Game Is Kill

as Sheriff Fred Kendall

1954

Cry Vengeance

as Johnny Blue-Eyes

1970

Soldier Blue

as Sgt. O'Hearn

1952

Affair in Trinidad

as Martin, Wittol's Henchman (uncredited)

1993

24 Hour Psycho

as Highway Patrol Officer (archive footage)

1964

Where Love Has Gone

as Petey Peterson

1961

1955

Desert Sands

as Wolock - Radio Man (uncredited)

1953

The Wild One

as Deputy (uncredited)

1967

1957

The Iron Sheriff

as Sutherland

1955

Dial Red O

as Newspaper Photographer

1969

Strategy of Terror

as Victor Pelling

1957

1956

The Harder They Fall

as Reporter in Hospital (uncredited)

1954

A Star Is Born

as Makeup Artist (uncredited)

1957

The Shadow on the Window

as Myra's Husband (uncredited)

1966

Blindfold

as Henchman

1954

It Should Happen to You

as Photographer (uncredited)

1964

1970

Breakout

as Middleton

1956

Crashing Las Vegas

as Lead Gangster

1953

Texas Bad Man

as Bartender

1955

The Marauders

as Carmack

1957

Bombers B-52

as Sgt. Addressing Flyers (uncredited)

1953

The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Floyd (uncredited)

1954

Pushover

as Second Bartender (uncredited)

1955

The Naked Street

as Finney (uncredited)

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