Paul Birch
Known For
Acting
Born
1912-01-13 in Atmore, Alabama, USA
Died
1969-05-24
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Perry Mason
as Security Officer Frank Crawford
The Fugitive
as Police Captain Carpenter
The Fugitive
Studio One
as Big George
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Cutler
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff
Wagon Train
as Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
Wagon Train
as Sam Benson
Maverick
The Virginian
as Sheriff Halsey
The Virginian
as Carl Bruner
The Virginian
as John Carver
The Virginian
as Ben Carter
The Virginian
as Mack Lewis
Cheyenne
77 Sunset Strip
as Zachary Latimer
Gunsmoke
as Boss
Gunsmoke
as Jessie
