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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, film, and television. ==Life and career== Birch was born Paul Lowery Smith in Atmore, Alabama. He was a veteran of thirty-nine films, fifty stage dramas, and numerous television series, 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. In the mid 1950s he appeared in magazine and TV ads as the first widely publicized "Cowboy" Marlboro Man (which may explain his early death, like other Marlboro Men). Birch appeared on Broadway in a production of ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial''. He appeared as the police captain with the megaphone in ''Rebel Without A Cause''(1955), and was one of the first to be "disintegrated" in the original movie ''War of the Worlds'' (1953). In 1959, Birch was cast as Sergeant Major Carmody, with Doug McClure as Corporal Jenkins, in the episode "The Face of Courage" of the NBC western series, ''Riverboat'', starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds. In the story line, amid the threat of Sioux attack, Carmody commanders the vessel, the ''Enterprise'', while it is delivering military cargo to an Army outpost on the Missouri River. Joanna Moore appears in the episode as Kitty McGuire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="The Face of Courage", December 27, 1959 )〕 Birch portrayed both Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee in several historical plays. He appeared as President Grant in the 1960 episode "Mr. Simpson" of ABC's ''Black Saddle'' western series starring Peter Breck as Clay Culhane, a gunfighter-turned-lawyer. He also portrayed President Grant in two episodes of ''The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin''. He also had a recurring role as Captain Carpenter, the boss of Lt. Phillip Gerard (Barry Morse) in the first two seasons of ABC's adventure/drama series ''The Fugitive'', starring David Janssen. He was among the original members of the Pasadena Playhouse. His stage work included ''The Caine Mutiny''. 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). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Birch (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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