Paul Birch
ActingPaul 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.
Known For
The War of the Worlds
Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Mayor Winder
Rebel Without a Cause
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The Spirit of St. Louis
Blythe (uncredited)
The Glory Guys
Commanding General
Two Rode Together
Judge Edward Purcell
Counterpoint
Man Without a Star
Mark Toliver
Queen of Outer Space
Prof. Konrad
Gunman's Walk
Bob Selkirk
Filmography — Acting
The War of the Worlds
Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Mayor Winder
Rebel Without a Cause
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
The Spirit of St. Louis
Blythe (uncredited)
The Glory Guys
Commanding General
Two Rode Together
Judge Edward Purcell
Counterpoint
Man Without a Star
Mark Toliver
Queen of Outer Space
Prof. Konrad
Gunman's Walk
Bob Selkirk
The Gun Runners
Sy Phillips
A Covenant with Death
Governor
Welcome to Hard Times
Mr. Fee
Cattle Queen of Montana
Col. Carrington
Five Guns West
J.C. Haggard
Strange Lady in Town
Sheriff
The Tattered Dress
Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Portrait in Black
Detective lieutenant
Not of This Earth
Paul Johnson
Adventure
First Mate (uncredited)
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Allan Kelley
Ride Clear of Diablo
Fred Kenyon
Gun for a Coward
Andy Niven
Day the World Ended
Jim Madison
The White Squaw
The 27th Day
Admiral
Assignment: Paris
Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
The Raiders
Paul King
Joe Dakota
Frank Weaver
Apache Woman
Sherrif
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
When Gangland Strikes
Sheriff Mack McBride
Gunmen from Laredo
Marshal Matt Crawford
Too Soon to Love
Wild Heritage
Jake Breslin
The World Was His Jury
Martin Ranker
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Banker
Everything But the Truth
Sen. Winter
The Family Nobody Wanted
A Public Affair
Malcomb Hardy
The Fighting Chance
Auctioneer