Paul Birch born January 13 1912 Atmore Alabama died May 24 1969 St Georges 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 halfhour dramaadventure 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 lowbudget sciencefiction 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 Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 and Dead Heat on a MerryGoRound 1967 Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Birch licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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