Paul Birch
Acting
Born 1912-01-13
Died 1969-05-24
Atmore, Alabama, USA
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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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Acting
35 credits
Perry Mason
The Fugitive
Wagon Train
The Virginian
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Gunsmoke
Studio One
Sugarfoot
77 Sunset Strip
M Squad
Riverboat
The War of the Worlds
Black Saddle
Cain's Hundred
Lux Video Theatre
Rebel Without a Cause
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Crossroads
Death Valley Days
Two Rode Together
Cannonball
Man Without a Star
Gunman's Walk
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Fastest Gun Alive
Ride Clear of Diablo
The Glory Guys
Queen of Outer Space
The 27th Day
Joe Dakota
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Cattle Queen of Montana
A Covenant with Death
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Maverick
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
Navy Log
Hawaiian Eye
Telephone Time
Sea Hunt
The Texan
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Bronco
Trackdown
Arrest and Trial
The Tall Man
Sam Benedict
You Are There
The Alaskans
Tightrope
Science Fiction Theatre
I Led Three Lives
Panic!
General Electric True
Hopalong Cassidy
The Court of Last Resort
Counterpoint
The John Forsythe Show
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