Paul Birch

Paul Birch

Birthday: 1912-01-13

Deathday: 1969-05-24

Place of birth: Atmore, Alabama, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0083280

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 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.

Played in movies:

Everything But the Truth

Score: 8.2

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Score: 7.8

Rebel Without a Cause

Score: 7.5

The War of the Worlds

Score: 6.8

The Spirit of St. Louis

Score: 6.7

Gunman's Walk

Score: 6.7

The White Squaw

Score: 6.6

The Glory Guys

Score: 6.5

Man Without a Star

Score: 6.4

Two Rode Together

Score: 6.3

The 27th Day

Score: 6.3

Adventure

Score: 6.2

Counterpoint

Score: 6.2

The Gun Runners

Score: 6.0

Joe Dakota

Score: 5.9

The World Was His Jury

Score: 5.9

Ride Clear of Diablo

Score: 5.8

Portrait in Black

Score: 5.7

Gun for a Coward

Score: 5.6

Cattle Queen of Montana

Score: 5.6

The Tattered Dress

Score: 5.6

Not of This Earth

Score: 5.6

Assignment: Paris

Score: 5.5

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Score: 5.3

Welcome to Hard Times

Score: 5.0

A Covenant with Death

Score: 5.0

Day the World Ended

Score: 4.9

Queen of Outer Space

Score: 4.8

Apache Woman

Score: 4.7

Gunmen from Laredo

Score: 4.7

The Raiders

Score: 4.5

Wild Heritage

Score: 4.5

Strange Lady in Town

Score: 4.5

Five Guns West

Score: 4.3

The Fighting Chance

Score: 4.0

Too Soon to Love

Score: 3.8

The Beast with a Million Eyes

Score: 3.8

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm

Score: 0.0

A Public Affair

Score: 0.0

When Gangland Strikes

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Score: 7.1

Maverick

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Sea Hunt

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Death Valley Days

Score: 6.4

Death Valley Days

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Wagon Train

Score: 6.3

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

Science Fiction Theatre

Score: 6.2

Riverboat

Score: 6.2

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Cheyenne

Score: 5.8

You Are There

Score: 5.7

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Tightrope

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Alaskans

Score: 5.5

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Score: 5.4

Bronco

Score: 5.2

M Squad

Score: 5.2

Hawaiian Eye

Score: 5.2

Hopalong Cassidy

Score: 5.1

Crossroads

Score: 5.0

The John Forsythe Show

Score: 5.0

Cannonball

Score: 5.0

Studio One

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Cain's Hundred

Score: 4.7

Navy Log

Score: 4.5

Panic!

Score: 0.0

The Court of Last Resort

Score: 0.0

General Electric True

Score: 0.0

I Led Three Lives

Score: 0.0