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).

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Rebel Without a Cause

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The War of the Worlds

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The Spirit of St. Louis

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Two Rode Together

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Perry Mason

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Man Without a Star

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Gunsmoke

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Day the World Ended

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Not of This Earth

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The Fugitive

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Gunman's Walk

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Have Gun, Will Travel

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The Beast with a Million Eyes

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Queen of Outer Space

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Maverick

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The 27th Day

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The Virginian

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Cattle Queen of Montana

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Wagon Train

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Portrait in Black

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Welcome to Hard Times

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Five Guns West

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Cheyenne

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Counterpoint

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The Gun Runners

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The Tattered Dress

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Sea Hunt

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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

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Apache Woman

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A Covenant with Death

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Gun for a Coward

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Adventure

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Studio One

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Hawaiian Eye

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Death Valley Days

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The Raiders

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

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The White Squaw

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Trackdown

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Gunmen from Laredo

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Joe Dakota

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

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The Tall Man

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M Squad

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Bronco

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Lux Video Theatre

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Sugarfoot

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Riverboat

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The World Was His Jury

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Black Saddle

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Navy Log

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Cain's Hundred

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The Texan

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Wild Heritage

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Everything But the Truth

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Sam Benedict

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You Are There

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The Alaskans

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Tightrope

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Crossroads

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The Fighting Chance

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Cannonball

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The John Forsythe Show

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I Led Three Lives

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General Electric True

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