Biography
Paul Birch (born January 13, 1912, Atmore, Alabama β 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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Filmography
all 79
TV Shows 41
Movies 38
Counterpoint (1967)
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
A Covenant with Death (1967)
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
The John Forsythe Show (1965)
The Glory Guys (1965)
The Raiders (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
Arrest and Trial (1963)
General Electric True (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Sam Benedict (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A Public Affair (1962)
Cain's Hundred (1961)
Two Rode Together (1961)
The Tall Man (1960)
Portrait in Black (1960)
Too Soon to Love (1960)
Hawaiian Eye (1959)
The Alaskans (1959)
Riverboat (1959)
Tightrope (1959)
Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
Black Saddle (1959)
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Cannonball (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Bronco (1958)
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
The Gun Runners (1958)
Wild Heritage (1958)
Gunman's Walk (1958)
Sea Hunt (1958)
The World Was His Jury (1958)
Joe Dakota (1957)
The Court of Last Resort (1957)
Trackdown (1957)
Maverick (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
M Squad (1957)
Wagon Train (1957)
Sugarfoot (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
Panic! (1957)
Not of This Earth (1957)
The 27th Day (1957)
Gun for a Coward (1956)
Everything But the Truth (1956)
The White Squaw (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Telephone Time (1956)
When Gangland Strikes (1956)
The Fighting Chance (1955)
Day the World Ended (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)
Cheyenne (1955)
Navy Log (1955)
Apache Woman (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
Five Guns West (1955)
Strange Lady in Town (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
You Are There (1953)
I Led Three Lives (1953)
Death Valley Days (1952)
Hopalong Cassidy (1952)
Assignment: Paris (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Studio One (1948)
Adventure (1945)
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GenderMale
Birthday1912-01-13
Deathday1969-05-24 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceAtmore, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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