6.2
Counterpoint
1967
Paul Birch
Acting
Born January 13, 1912Died May 24, 1969Atmore, Alabama, USA
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. 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.
Movies
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5.3
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
4.8
A Covenant with Death
1967
5.6
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
6.5
The Glory Guys
1965
4.8
The Raiders
1963
7.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
7.0
A Public Affair
1962
6.4
Two Rode Together
1961
5.7
Portrait in Black
1960
4.6
Too Soon to Love
1960
5.4
Gunmen from Laredo
1959
4.9
Queen of Outer Space
1958
6.1
The Gun Runners
1958
6.0
Wild Heritage
1958
6.7
Gunman's Walk
1958
6.1
The World Was His Jury
1958
6.7
Joe Dakota
1957
9.0
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957
6.7
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
5.5
The Tattered Dress
1957
5.7
Not of This Earth
1957
6.2
The 27th Day
1957
6.0
Gun for a Coward
1956
0.0
The Family Nobody Wanted
1956
8.2
Everything But the Truth
1956
6.8
The White Squaw
1956
6.9
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956
6.0
When Gangland Strikes
1956
5.5
The Fighting Chance
1955
5.0
Day the World Ended
1955
7.5
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
5.0
Apache Woman
1955
3.8
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
4.5
Five Guns West
1955
4.9
Strange Lady in Town
1955
6.4
Man Without a Star
1955
5.7
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
6.1
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
6.8
The War of the Worlds
1953
5.9
Assignment: Paris
1952
6.4
Adventure
1945
TV Shows
See AllThe John Forsythe Show
7.5
The John Forsythe Show
7.3
The Fugitive
7.3
The Fugitive
8.2
Arrest and Trial
0.0
General Electric True
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.7
Sam Benedict
5.2
Cain's Hundred
6.9
The Tall Man
5.6
Hawaiian Eye
6.7
The Alaskans
6.5
Riverboat
6.8
Tightrope
6.2
Black Saddle
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
6.5
Cannonball
6.0
The Texan
6.0
Bronco
6.7
Sea Hunt
6.9
Trackdown
The Court of Last Resort
9.0
The Court of Last Resort
7.0
Maverick
7.7
Perry Mason
5.4
M Squad
6.6
Wagon Train
6.6
Wagon Train
5.1
Sugarfoot
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
8.0
Panic!
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
6.5
Telephone Time
6.8
Crossroads
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
6.2
Cheyenne
5.2
Navy Log
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.7
Gunsmoke
6.3
Science Fiction Theatre
6.0
You Are There
8.0
I Led Three Lives
6.6
Death Valley Days
6.6
Death Valley Days
5.3
Hopalong Cassidy
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
7.2
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
6.7
Lux Video Theatre
5.4