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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1963 • TV
1957 • TV
1957 • TV
1957 • TV
1955 • Movie
1961 • Movie
as Jim Madison
as Judge Edward Purcell
as Andy Niven
as First Mate (uncredited)
as Jake Breslin
as Frank Weaver
as Prosecutor Frank Mitchell
as Col. Carrington
as Prof. Konrad
as Admiral
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
as Bob Selkirk
as Fred Kenyon
as Mayor Winder
as Alonzo Hogue (uncredited)
as Sherrif
as Paul Johnson
as Sheriff
as Police Captain Carpenter
12 episodes
as Security Officer Frank Crawford
1 episodes
as Gen. Ulysses Simpson 'Sam' Grant
1 episodes
as Sam Benson
1 episodes
as Sheriff Halsey
1 episodes
as Carl Bruner
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as Ben Carter
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as John Carver
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as Mack Lewis
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3 episodes
as Big George
2 episodes
as Sheriff Cutler
1 episodes
as Sheriff
2 episodes
as Chief Crane
1 episodes
as Boss
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as Jessie
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