Paul Birch
Born in Atmore, Alabama, USA — Jan 13 1912• Died May 24 1969
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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…
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The Fugitive
Police Captain Carpenter
Perry Mason
Security Officer Frank Crawford
Wagon Train
Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
Have Gun, Will Travel
Maverick
The Virginian
Sheriff Halsey
Studio One
Big George
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sheriff Cutler
Hawaiian Eye
Cheyenne
M Squad
Police Lt. Ruddy
77 Sunset Strip
Zachary Latimer
Trackdown
Sea Hunt
Black Saddle
Mr. Simpson
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Gunsmoke
Boss
The Texan
Bronco
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Police Desk Sergeant
Tightrope
Sam Benedict
The Tall Man
Sugarfoot
Emmett Clark
Cain's Hundred
Sheriff Rainey
Arrest and Trial
Telephone Time
Navy Log
Lux Video Theatre
Doctor
Riverboat
Sergeant Major Carmody
Science Fiction Theatre
The Alaskans
Hopalong Cassidy
Panic!
You Are There
Crossroads
Chief Crane
General Electric True
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Secretary of Agriculture
I Led Three Lives
The War of the Worlds
Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
Death Valley Days
Mike Walsh
The John Forsythe Show
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Mayor Winder
Rebel Without a Cause
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Cannonball
"Cannonball" Mike Malone
The Court of Last Resort
Joe Dakota
Frank Weaver
Counterpoint
The Spirit of St. Louis
Blythe (uncredited)
The Glory Guys
Commanding General
Five Guns West
J.C. Haggard
Gunman's Walk
Bob Selkirk
Welcome to Hard Times
Mr. Fee
The Tattered Dress
Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Gunmen from Laredo
Marshal Matt Crawford
Man Without a Star
Mark Toliver
A Covenant with Death
Governor
The Gun Runners
Sy Phillips
Adventure
First Mate (uncredited)
Queen of Outer Space
Prof. Konrad
Two Rode Together
Judge Edward Purcell
Apache Woman
Sherrif
Ride Clear of Diablo
Fred Kenyon
Portrait in Black
Detective lieutenant
Cattle Queen of Montana
Col. Carrington
The White Squaw
Wild Heritage
Jake Breslin
Strange Lady in Town
Sheriff
Gun for a Coward
Andy Niven
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Allan Kelley
The Raiders
Paul King
The 27th Day
Admiral
When Gangland Strikes
Sheriff Mack McBride
Day the World Ended
Jim Madison
The Family Nobody Wanted
Not of This Earth
Paul Johnson
Too Soon to Love
Everything But the Truth
Sen. Winter
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Bill Simpson (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris
Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Banker
The World Was His Jury
Martin Ranker
A Public Affair
Malcomb Hardy
The Fighting Chance
Auctioneer