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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).
Most Popular Paul Birch Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
03 April 1953
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
12 April 1955
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
13 April 1962
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town.
15 February 1967
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner.
22 December 1967
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium.
10 February 1957
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
01 November 1956
A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
27 October 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems.
12 July 1956
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him.
15 July 1958
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
15 March 1956
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison.
24 March 1955
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
03 March 1962
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
18 November 1954
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
07 July 1965
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
24 May 1961
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
01 April 1957
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
27 October 1957
A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.
07 January 1957
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules.
01 August 1958
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution.
27 July 1960
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
14 March 1957
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results.
01 December 1956
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.
10 February 1954
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
12 October 1966
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
15 June 1955
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions.
01 December 1963
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
15 April 1955
During the Civil War, five condemned Southern prisoners are plucked off Death Row and promised pardons on the condition that they undertake a mission to head west and bring back a double-crossing Confederate spy who has a stagecoach full of Confederate gold.
30 December 1956
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
23 July 1958
Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
04 September 1952
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
07 September 1958
An aborted mission strands a crew on Venus where they find the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana.
28 December 1945
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
01 December 1955
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.
01 March 1959
A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
30 April 1967
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
15 December 1955
A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.
01 February 1960
Unmarried teenage lovers turn to desperate measures after their clandestine tryst results in an unplanned pregnancy.
20 December 1956
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny.
01 January 1958
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship.
15 September 1955
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks.
15 September 1957
A 15 episode serial in which boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy try to solve the mystery of a haunted farm where the farmer has died and left no one to care for his livestock.
