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).
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Perry Mason
Security Officer Frank Crawford
The Fugitive
Police Captain Carpenter
The Fugitive
Wagon Train
Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
Wagon Train
Sam Benson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sheriff Cutler
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sheriff
Maverick
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
Studio One
Big George
The Virginian
Sheriff Halsey
The Virginian
Carl Bruner
The Virginian
Ben Carter
The Virginian
John Carver
The Virginian
Mack Lewis
Gunsmoke
Boss
Gunsmoke
Jessie
Hawaiian Eye
The Texan
M Squad
Police Lt. Ruddy
Black Saddle
Mr. Simpson
Navy Log
77 Sunset Strip
Zachary Latimer
Arrest and Trial
Trackdown
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Not of This Earth
Paul Johnson
Bronco
Sugarfoot
Emmett Clark
Telephone Time
Cain's Hundred
Sheriff Rainey
Tightrope
Sea Hunt
Strange Lady in Town
Sheriff
Sam Benedict
Joe Dakota
Frank Weaver
Riverboat
Sergeant Major Carmody
The Tall Man
The White Squaw
Lux Video Theatre
Doctor
The Alaskans
The 27th Day
Admiral
Panic!
Hopalong Cassidy
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Police Desk Sergeant
The Tattered Dress
Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Counterpoint
Science Fiction Theatre
You Are There
Rebel Without a Cause
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
I Led Three Lives
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Mayor Winder
The War of the Worlds
Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
General Electric True
Cannonball
"Cannonball" Mike Malone
Death Valley Days
Mike Walsh
Death Valley Days
Jim Davidson
Crossroads
Chief Crane
The John Forsythe Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Secretary of Agriculture
Five Guns West
J.C. Haggard
Man Without a Star
Mark Toliver
Two Rode Together
Judge Edward Purcell
Day the World Ended
Jim Madison
The Court of Last Resort
The Glory Guys
Commanding General
Adventure
First Mate (uncredited)
Gun for a Coward
Andy Niven
Ride Clear of Diablo
Fred Kenyon
The Spirit of St. Louis
Blythe (uncredited)
Gunman's Walk
Bob Selkirk
A Covenant with Death
Governor
Queen of Outer Space
Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners
Sy Phillips
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Allan Kelley
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
Wild Heritage
Jake Breslin
Everything But the Truth
Sen. Winter
Cattle Queen of Montana
Col. Carrington
Portrait in Black
Detective lieutenant
Assignment: Paris
Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
Gunmen from Laredo
Marshal Matt Crawford
Welcome to Hard Times
Mr. Fee
Apache Woman
Sherrif
The Raiders
Paul King
Too Soon to Love
The Family Nobody Wanted
A Public Affair
Malcomb Hardy
The Fighting Chance
Auctioneer
When Gangland Strikes
Sheriff Mack McBride
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Banker
The World Was His Jury
Martin Ranker