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Paul Hurst Died at age: 64

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Paul Hurst

Date of Birth:

Oct 14, 1888

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 27, 1953

Biography of

Paul Hurst

    Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect).

    In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide.

    Date of Death: 27 February 1953, Hollywood, California  (suicide)

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Filmography of

Paul Hurst

Found 187 Movies in total

The Sun Shines Bright

Jimmy Bagby ( Actor )

... 1953

Big Jim McLain

Mr. Lexiter ( Actor )

... 1952

Million Dollar Pursuit

Ray Harvey ( Actor )

... 1951

The Missourians

John X. Finn ( Actor )

... 1950

The Old Frontier

Skipper Horton ( Actor )

... 1950

The Vanishing Westerner

Waldorf Worthington ( Actor )

... 1950

Pioneer Marshal

Huck Homer ( Actor )

... 1949

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

Sheriff Jug Mason ( Actor )

... 1949

San Antone Ambush

Happy Daniels ( Actor )

... 1949

South of Rio

Andy Weems ( Actor )

... 1949

Outcasts of the Trail

Doc Meadowlark ( Actor )

... 1949

Law of the Golden West

Otis Ellis ( Actor )

... 1949

Prince of the Plains

Sheriff Hank Hartley ( Actor )

... 1949

Gun Smugglers

Sergeant Hasty Jones ( Actor )

... 1948

Yellow Sky

Drunk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

Son of God’s Country

Eli Walker ( Actor )

... 1948

The Arizona Ranger

Ben Riddle ( Actor )

... 1948

Heart of Virginia

Whit Galtry ( Actor )

... 1948

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

Jailer ( Actor )

... 1948

California Firebrand

Chuck Waggoner ( Actor )

... 1948

Madonna of the Desert

Pete Connors ( Actor )

... 1948

Under Colorado Skies

Lucky John Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1947

Angel and the Badman

Frederick Carson ( Actor )

... 1947

... 1946

Death Valley

Sergeant Dailey ( Actor )

... 1946

In Old Sacramento

Stagecoach Driver ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1946

Murder in the Music Hall

Hobarth ( Actor )

... 1946

Dakota

Captain Spotts ( Actor )

... 1945

Midnight Manhunt

Murphy ( Actor )

... 1945

Steppin' in Society

Cookie ( Actor )

... 1945

Scared Stiff

Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1945

The Big Show-Off

Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler ( Actor )

... 1945

Something for the Boys

Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Girl Rush

Muley ( Actor )

... 1944

Barbary Coast Gent

Jake Compton ( Actor )

... 1944

Summer Storm

Orloff ( Actor )

... 1944

The Ghost That Walks Alone

Sheriff Slim Carson ( Actor )

... 1944

The Sky's the Limit

Dock Foreman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Coney Island

Louie ( Actor )

... 1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

Monty Smith ( Actor )

... 1943

Hi'ya, Chum

Archie Billings ( Actor )

... 1943

Calaboose

Ed the bartender ( Actor )

... 1943

Night in New Orleans

Sergeant Casper Riordan ( Actor )

... 1942

Sundown Jim

Broderick ( Actor )

... 1942

Dudes Are Pretty People

Two-Gun ( Actor )

... 1942

Pardon My Stripes

Feets ( Actor )

... 1942

... 1941

This Woman Is Mine

Second Mate Mumford ( Actor )

... 1941

The Parson of Panamint

Jake Waldren ( Actor )

... 1941

Caught in the Draft

Sgt. Burns ( Actor )

... 1941

The Great Mr. Nobody

Michael O'Connor ( Actor )

... 1941

Petticoat Politics

Slats O'Dell ( Actor )

... 1941

Virginia

Thomas ( Actor )

... 1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Biff Sage ( Actor )

... 1941

... 1940

Spring Parade

Headwaiter ( Actor )

... 1940

The Westerner

Chickenfoot ( Actor )

... 1940

South to Karanga

Slats ( Actor )

... 1940

They Drive by Night

Pete Haig (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Torrid Zone

Daniels ( Actor )

... 1940

Edison, the Man

Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1940

Star Dust

Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech ( Actor )

... 1940

Castle on the Hudson

Guard (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Remember?

Policeman ( Actor )

... 1939

Gone with the Wind

Yankee Deserter ( Actor )

... 1939

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Empire State Building Guard ( Actor )

... 1939

On Your Toes

Variety Club Bartender ( Actor )

... 1939

Bad Lands

Curly Tom ( Actor )

... 1939

Quick Millions

Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1939

Each Dawn I Die

Garsky ( Actor )

... 1939

Broadway Serenade

Reynolds, a Drunk ( Actor )

... 1939

Cafe Society

Bartender ( Actor )

... 1939

Topper Takes a Trip

Charlie - the Bartender ( Actor )

... 1938

Secrets of a Nurse

Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh ( Actor )

... 1938

The Last Express

Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer ( Actor )

... 1938

Hold That Co-ed

Slapsy ( Actor )

... 1938

My Lucky Star

Louie ( Actor )

... 1938

Prison Break

Soapy ( Actor )

... 1938

Josette

A. Adolphus Heyman ( Actor )

... 1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Bill Mulligan ( Actor )

... 1938

In Old Chicago

Mitch ( Actor )

... 1938

Island in the Sky

Happy ( Actor )

... 1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Florabelle's Father ( Actor )

... 1938

No Time to Marry

Sergeant ( Actor )

... 1938

Second Honeymoon

Dennis Huggins ( Actor )

... 1937

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Captain ( Actor )

... 1937

Danger – Love at Work

NYC policeman ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1937

Wake Up and Live

McCabe ( Actor )

... 1937

She's No Lady

Cop ( Actor )

... 1937

You Can't Have Everything

Truck Driver ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1937

Super-Sleuth

Motorcycle Cop ( Actor )

... 1937

You Can't Beat Love

Foreman Butch Mehaffey ( Actor )

... 1937

Slave Ship

Drunk ( Actor )

... 1937

Angel's Holiday

Sgt. Murphy ( Actor )

... 1937

Fifty Roads to Town

Tom ( Actor )

... 1937

This Is My Affair

Bowler ( Actor )

... 1937

Trouble in Morocco

Tiger Malone ( Actor )

... 1937

We Who Are About to Die

Tip Fuller ( Actor )

... 1937

North of Nome

Carlson ( Actor )

... 1936

The Gay Desperado

American Detective ( Actor )

... 1936

To Mary - with Love

Drunk ( Actor )

... 1936

Blackmailer

Inspector Killian ( Actor )

... 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1st Deputy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Wilson ( Actor )

... 1936

Riffraff

Belcher ( Actor )

... 1936

The Gay Deception

Bell Captain ( Actor )

... 1935

The Daring Young Man

Prison Guard ( Actor )

... 1935

Calm Yourself

Detective Roscoe ( Actor )

... 1935

Public Hero Number 1

Rufe Parker ( Actor )

... 1935

Mississippi

Hefty ( Actor )

... 1935

Shadow of Doubt

Lt. Sackville ( Actor )

... 1935

Carnival

Policeman ( Actor )

... 1935

Sequoia

Bergman ( Actor )

... 1935

Maybe It's Love

Expressman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Tomorrow's Youth

Detective ( Actor )

... 1934

Among the Missing

Capt. W.F. 'Big Bill' Connors ( Actor )

... 1934

Take the Stand

Denny O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1934

Midnight Alibi

Babe the Butcher ( Actor )

... 1934

Charlie Chan's Courage

Undetermined Role ( Actor )

... 1934

A Very Honorable Guy

Butler ( Actor )

... 1934

The Big Race

Skipper O'Neal ( Actor )

... 1934

Queen Christina

Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

The Women in His Life

Paul, Perez's Second Bodyguard ( Actor )

... 1933

Day of Reckoning

Harry ( Actor )

... 1933

Saturday's Millions

Doc Maloney, Trainer ( Actor )

... 1933

Tugboat Annie

Sam ( Actor )

... 1933

Hold Your Man

Aubrey C. Mitchell (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

The Sphinx

Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan ( Actor )

... 1933

Terror Aboard

Boatswain ( Actor )

... 1933

Grand Slam

Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film ( Actor )

... 1933

Island of Lost Souls

Capt. Donahue ( Actor )

... 1932

Men Are Such Fools

Stiles ( Actor )

... 1932

The Big Stampede

'Arizona' Frank Bailey ( Actor )

... 1932

The Phantom President

Sailor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Hold 'Em Jail

Butch ( Actor )

... 1932

The Thirteenth Guest

Detective Grump ( Actor )

... 1932

State's Attorney

Police Captain Morgan ( Actor )

... 1932

My Pal, the King

Red ( Actor )

... 1932

Panama Flo

Al ( Actor )

... 1932

The Secret Witness

Officer Brannigan ( Actor )

... 1931

Bad Company

Paul Hurst ( Actor )

... 1931

Maker of Men

Gabby ( Actor )

... 1931

The Public Defender

Doc ( Actor )

... 1931

Sweepstakes

Bartender ( Actor )

... 1931

Kick In

Detective Whip Fogarty ( Actor )

... 1931

The Secret Six

Nick Mizoski - the Gouger ( Actor )

... 1931

The Single Sin

Slug ( Actor )

... 1931

The Third Alarm

'Beauty' Johnson ( Actor )

... 1930

Borrowed Wives

Bull Morgan ( Actor )

... 1930

Paradise Island

Beauty ( Actor )

... 1930

Hot Curves

'Slug', Baseball Player ( Actor )

... 1930

Shadow of the Law

Pete Shore ( Actor )

... 1930

Mountain Justice

Lem Harland ( Actor )

... 1930

The Runaway Bride

Sergeant Daly ( Actor )

... 1930

Swellhead

Mugsy ( Actor )

... 1930

Officer O'Brien

Captain Antrim ( Actor )

... 1930

Lucky Larkin

Pete Brierson ( Actor )

... 1930

His First Command

Sgt. Westbrook ( Actor )

... 1929

The Racketeer

Mehaffy - Policeman ( Actor )

... 1929

Oh, Yeah!

Railroad-Yard Superintendent ( Actor )

... 1929

Sailor's Holiday

Jimmylegs ( Actor )

... 1929

The California Mail

Rowdy Ryan ( Actor )

... 1929

Tide of Empire

Poppy ( Actor )

... 1929

The Lawless Legion

Ramirez ( Actor )

... 1929

Lilac Time

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1928

The Cossacks

Sitchi ( Actor )

... 1928

Buttons

Slugger McGlue ( Actor )

... 1927

The Valley of the Giants

Randeau ( Actor )

... 1927

The Red Raiders

Sergeant Murphy ( Actor )

... 1927

The Devil's Saddle

'Swig' Moran ( Actor )

... 1927

... 1926

Roaring Road

Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited) ( Actor )

Director

... 1926

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1923

Lightning Bryce

Powder Solvang ( Actor )

Director

... 1919

Smashing Through

Stevens ( Actor )

... 1918

Rimrock Jones

Ike Bray ( Actor )

... 1918

The Railroad Raiders

Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1917

The Hazards of Helen

Benton - a Foreman ( Actor )

... 1917

The Manager of the B & A

Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst) ( Actor )

... 1916

Judith of the Cumberlands

Blatchley Turrentine ( Actor )

... 1916

Whispering Smith

Murray Sinclair ( Actor )

... 1916

Stingaree

Howie - Stingaree's Partner ( Actor )

... 1915