Paul Birch

Known for ActingBorn 1912-01-13Died 1969-05-24Atmore, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm

The Court of Last Resort

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Arrest and Trial

Everything But the Truth

Panic!

I Led Three Lives

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Perry Mason

The John Forsythe Show

Rebel Without a Cause

The Fugitive

Have Gun, Will Travel

77 Sunset Strip

A Public Affair

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Maverick

The Fastest Gun Alive

The Tall Man

Trackdown

The White Squaw

The War of the Worlds

Gunman's Walk

Crossroads

Sam Benedict

Joe Dakota

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Alaskans

Gunsmoke

Sea Hunt

Lux Video Theatre

The Glory Guys

Wagon Train

Death Valley Days

The Virginian

Riverboat

Cannonball

Telephone Time

Man Without a Star

Two Rode Together

Tightrope

Science Fiction Theatre

Counterpoint

Adventure

The 27th Day

Black Saddle

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Gun Runners