Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
40
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 13, 1912 ( 57 years old )
Place of Birth
Atmore, Alabama, USA
Paul Birch
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.
Known For
Rebel Without a Cause
1955-10-27The 27th Day
1957-01-07Not of This Earth
1957-02-10The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955-06-15Day the World Ended
1955-12-01The Fighting Chance
1955-12-15Gunman's Walk
1958-07-01Queen of Outer Space
1958-09-07Portrait in Black
1960-07-27When Gangland Strikes
1956-03-15