Paul Birch
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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
Perry Mason
1957
The Fugitive
1963
Wagon Train
1957
Maverick
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Virginian
1962
Cheyenne
1955
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Studio One
1948
Hawaiian Eye
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Sea Hunt
1958
Sugarfoot
1957
The Texan
1958
M Squad
1957
Black Saddle
1959
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Trackdown
1957
Bronco
1958
Navy Log
1955
Arrest and Trial
1963
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
The Tall Man
1960
Telephone Time
1956
Cain's Hundred
1961
Riverboat
1959
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Sam Benedict
1962
Tightrope
1959
The Alaskans
1959
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
I Led Three Lives
1953
Panic!
1957
You Are There
1953
General Electric True
1962
Crossroads
1955
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Death Valley Days
1952
The War of the Worlds
1953
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
The Court of Last Resort
1957
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
Cannonball
1958
Two Rode Together
1961
The John Forsythe Show
1965
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
The Glory Guys
1965
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
Assignment: Paris
1952
Man Without a Star
1955
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957
The Gun Runners
1958
Joe Dakota
1957
Queen of Outer Space
1958
The Tattered Dress
1957
Counterpoint
1967
Gunman's Walk
1958
A Covenant with Death
1967
Gun for a Coward
1956
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Not of This Earth
1957
Day the World Ended
1955
Adventure
1945
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
The 27th Day
1957
Portrait in Black
1960
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
Wild Heritage
1958
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Raiders
1963
When Gangland Strikes
1956
Apache Woman
1955
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
The World Was His Jury
1958
Five Guns West
1955
The White Squaw
1956
The Fighting Chance
1955
A Public Affair
1962
Too Soon to Love
1960
Everything But the Truth
1956
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956