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