Paul Birch
Biography: 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Birch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 13, 1912
Deathday: May 24, 1969
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Rebel Without a Cause
1955-10-27
Rebel Without a Cause
Overview: 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. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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The 27th Day
1957-01-07
The 27th Day
Overview: 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. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-07
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Not of This Earth
1957-02-10
Not of This Earth
Overview: An agent from a distant planet has been sent to earth to ship large quantities of blood to his world, where a plague is ravaging the populace. He comes equipped with an interstellar matter transmitter, telepathic mind-control powers, and deathray-shooting eyes. Because he is also affected by the blood disease, he gains control of the town's physician and has him place a nurse at his disposal, while he collects live humans for fresh blood; but gains the nurse's suspicions, along with those of her boyfriend - a town police officer.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-10
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The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955-06-15
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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Day the World Ended
1955-12-01
Day the World Ended
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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The Fighting Chance
1955-12-15
The Fighting Chance
Overview: A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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Gunman's Walk
1958-07-01
Gunman's Walk
Overview: A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Queen of Outer Space
1958-09-07
Queen of Outer Space
Overview: A mission to Venus discovers the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Portrait in Black
1960-07-27
Portrait in Black
Overview: A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-27
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When Gangland Strikes
1956-03-15
When Gangland Strikes
Overview: In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-15
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966-10-12
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Overview: A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-12
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The Gun Runners
1958-08-01
The Gun Runners
Overview: Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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The Tattered Dress
1957-03-14
The Tattered Dress
Overview: After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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Strange Lady in Town
1955-04-12
Strange Lady in Town
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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Gunmen from Laredo
1959-03-01
Gunmen from Laredo
Overview: A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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The World Was His Jury
1958-01-01
The World Was His Jury
Overview: A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars Edmond O'Brien, Robert McQueeney, Paul Birch, Mona Freeman and Karin Booth.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Apache Woman
1955-09-15
Apache Woman
Overview: A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Joe Dakota
1957-10-27
Joe Dakota
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-27
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Counterpoint
1967-12-22
Counterpoint
Overview: 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. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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A Covenant with Death
1967-02-15
A Covenant with Death
Overview: 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. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-15
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Wild Heritage
1958-07-23
Wild Heritage
Overview: Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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A Public Affair
1962-03-03
A Public Affair
Overview: Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
Two Rode Together
Overview: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The White Squaw
1956-11-01
The White Squaw
Overview: A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
1957-09-15
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm
Overview: 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. A ghost assists them to prevent the acceptance of a false inheritance claim.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
The Spirit of St. Louis
Overview: Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Welcome to Hard Times
1967-04-30
Welcome to Hard Times
Overview: A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-30
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The Raiders
1963-12-01
The Raiders
Overview: Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Five Guns West
1955-04-15
Five Guns West
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
Cattle Queen of Montana
Overview: Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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Ride Clear of Diablo
1954-02-10
Ride Clear of Diablo
Overview: A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Man Without a Star
1955-03-24
Man Without a Star
Overview: A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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Gun for a Coward
1956-12-30
Gun for a Coward
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-30
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Adventure
1945-12-28
Adventure
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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The War of the Worlds
1953-08-13
The War of the Worlds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Assignment: Paris
1952-09-04
Assignment: Paris
Overview: Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Everything But the Truth
1956-12-01
Everything But the Truth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Too Soon to Love
1960-02-01
Too Soon to Love
Overview: Unmarried teenage lovers turn to desperate measures after their clandestine tryst results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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The Glory Guys
1965-07-07
The Glory Guys
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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