Paul Birch

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-01-13 (57 years old)

Deathday

1969-05-24

Place of Birth

Atmore, Alabama, USA

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...

Acting

1955

Rebel Without a Cause

as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

1957

The 27th Day

as Admiral

1957

Not of This Earth

as Paul Johnson

1955

Day the World Ended

as Jim Madison

1955

The Fighting Chance

as Auctioneer

1958

Gunman's Walk

as Bob Selkirk

1958

Queen of Outer Space

as Prof. Konrad

1960

Portrait in Black

as Detective lieutenant

1956

When Gangland Strikes

as Sheriff Mack McBride

1966

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

as Bill Simpson (uncredited)

1958

The Gun Runners

as Sy Phillips

1957

The Tattered Dress

as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell

1955

1959

Gunmen from Laredo

as Marshal Matt Crawford

1958

The World Was His Jury

as Martin Ranker

1955

Apache Woman

as Sherrif

1957

Joe Dakota

as Frank Weaver

1967

1958

Wild Heritage

as Jake Breslin

1962

A Public Affair

as Malcomb Hardy

1961

Two Rode Together

as Judge Edward Purcell

1957

The Spirit of St. Louis

as Blythe (uncredited)

1967

1963

The Raiders

as Paul King

1955

Five Guns West

as J.C. Haggard

1954

Cattle Queen of Montana

as Col. Carrington

1954

Ride Clear of Diablo

as Fred Kenyon

1955

Man Without a Star

as Mark Toliver

1956

Gun for a Coward

as Andy Niven

1945

Adventure

as First Mate (uncredited)

1953

The War of the Worlds

as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)

1952

Assignment: Paris

as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)

1956

1965

The Glory Guys

as Commanding General

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