Paul Birch

Born: 1912-01-13 Atmore, Alabama, U.S.

Died: 1969-05-24

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 s ...