Mort Mills

Personal Info

Birthday

January 11, 1919

Day of Death

1993-06-06

(74 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Mort Mills

Biography

Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957–1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley. He portrayed supporting roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966), and in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Perry Mason

Maverick

The Fugitive

Ironside

Adam-12

The Virginian

The Big Valley

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Filmography

1993
24 Hour Psycho
as Highway Patrol Officer (archive footage)
1970
Breakout
as Middleton
Soldier Blue
as Sgt. O'Hearn
1969
Strategy of Terror
as Victor Pelling
1968
The Name of the Game Is Kill
as Sheriff Fred Kendall
1967
Return of the Gunfighter
as Will Parker
1966
Torn Curtain
as Farmer
Blindfold
as Henchman
1965
The Outlaws Is Coming
as Trigger Mortis
1964
Where Love Has Gone
as Petey Peterson
Bullet for a Badman
as Ira
The Quick Gun
as Cagle
1963
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
as Ben Bayer
1961
Twenty Plus Two
as Harbin
1960
Psycho
as Highway Patrol Officer
1958
Ride a Crooked Trail
as Pecos
Touch of Evil
as Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant
1957
Man in the Shadow
as Geteman
Bombers B-52
as Sgt. Addressing Flyers (uncredited)
The Iron Sheriff
as Sutherland
The Shadow on the Window
as Myra's Husband (uncredited)
1956
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
as policeman
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
as Sam Mason
The Harder They Fall
as Reporter in Hospital (uncredited)
Crashing Las Vegas
as Lead Gangster
1955
Desert Sands
as Wolock - Radio Man (uncredited)
The Marauders
as Carmack
The Naked Street
as Finney (uncredited)
Dial Red O
as Newspaper Photographer
1954
Cry Vengeance
as Johnny Blue-Eyes
A Star Is Born
as Makeup Artist (uncredited)
Pushover
as Second Bartender (uncredited)
It Should Happen to You
as Photographer (uncredited)
1953
The Wild One
as Deputy (uncredited)
Texas Bad Man
as Bartender
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
as Doctor
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Floyd (uncredited)
1952
Affair in Trinidad
as Martin, Wittol's Henchman (uncredited)