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Paul Birch
Atmore, Alabama, USA
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, Alaba…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Birch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1967
Counterpoint
Movie
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1967
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie Mr. Fee
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1967
A Covenant with Death
Movie Governor
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1966
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie Bill Simpson (uncredited)
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1965
The John Forsythe Show
TV show
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1965
The Glory Guys
Movie Commanding General
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1963
The Raiders
Movie Paul King
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Police Captain Carpenter
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1963
Arrest and Trial
TV show
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1962
General Electric True
TV show
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Sheriff Halsey
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1962
Sam Benedict
TV show
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1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie Mayor Winder
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1962
A Public Affair
Movie Malcomb Hardy
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1961
Cain's Hundred
TV show Sheriff Rainey
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1961
Two Rode Together
Movie Judge Edward Purcell
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1960
The Tall Man
TV show
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1960
Portrait in Black
Movie Detective Lieutenant
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1960
Too Soon to Love
Movie
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1959
Hawaiian Eye
TV show
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1959
The Alaskans
TV show
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1959
Riverboat
TV show Sergeant Major Carmody
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1959
Tightrope
TV show
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1959
Gunmen from Laredo
Movie Marshal Matt Crawford
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1959
Black Saddle
TV show Mr. Simpson
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show Zachary Latimer
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1958
Cannonball
TV show "Cannonball" Mike Malone
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1958
The Texan
TV show
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1958
Bronco
TV show
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1958
Queen of Outer Space
Movie Prof. Konrad
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1958
The Gun Runners
Movie Sy Phillips
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1958
Wild Heritage
Movie Jake Breslin
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1958
Gunman's Walk
Movie Bob Selkirk
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1958
Sea Hunt
TV show
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1958
The World Was His Jury
Movie Martin Ranker
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1957
Joe Dakota
Movie Frank Weaver
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1957
Trackdown
TV show
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1957
The Court of Last Resort
TV show
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1957
Maverick
TV show
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Security Officer Frank Crawford
