Paul Birch

Personal Info

Birthday

January 13, 1912

Day of Death

1969-05-24

(57 years old)

Place of Birth

Atmore, Alabama, USA

Paul Birch

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.

Known For

Perry Mason

Wagon Train

The Fugitive

The Virginian

Studio One

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Gunsmoke

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Filmography

1967
Welcome to Hard Times
as Mr. Fee
A Covenant with Death
as Governor
1966
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Bill Simpson (uncredited)
1965
The Glory Guys
as Commanding General
1963
The Raiders
as Paul King
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mayor Winder
A Public Affair
as Malcomb Hardy
1961
Two Rode Together
as Judge Edward Purcell
1960
Portrait in Black
as Detective lieutenant
1959
Gunmen from Laredo
as Marshal Matt Crawford
1958
Queen of Outer Space
as Prof. Konrad
The Gun Runners
as Sy Phillips
Wild Heritage
as Jake Breslin
Gunman's Walk
as Bob Selkirk
The World Was His Jury
as Martin Ranker
1957
Joe Dakota
as Frank Weaver
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
as Banker
The Spirit of St. Louis
as Blythe (uncredited)
The Tattered Dress
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
The 27th Day
as Admiral
1956
Gun for a Coward
as Andy Niven
Everything But the Truth
as Sen. Winter
When Gangland Strikes
as Sheriff Mack McBride
1955
The Fighting Chance
as Auctioneer
Day the World Ended
as Jim Madison
Rebel Without a Cause
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Apache Woman
as Sherrif
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Allan Kelley
Five Guns West
as J.C. Haggard
Strange Lady in Town
as Sheriff
Man Without a Star
as Mark Toliver
1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Col. Carrington
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Fred Kenyon
1953
The War of the Worlds
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
1952
Assignment: Paris
as Colonel Mannix (uncredited)
1945
Adventure
as First Mate (uncredited)