Movies List
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Drango

as Col. Bracken

1957
The Private War of Major Benson

as Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey

1955
White Feather

as Commissioner Trenton

1955
Smoke Signal

as Sergeant Miles

1955
Black Tuesday

as Father Slocum

1954
The Siege at Red River

as Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman

1954
Arrowhead

as Sandy MacKinnon

1953
The Atomic City

as Insp. Harold Mann

1952
The Savage

as Cpl. Martin

1952
Roadblock

as Ray Egan

1951
Branded

as Dawson

1950
Sky Dragon

as Pilot Tim Norton

1949
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

as Abe Jones

1949
Train to Alcatraz

as Bart Kanin

1948
Killer Dill

as Maboose

1947
Michigan Kid

as Lanny Slade

1947
Danger Woman

as Gerald King

1946
Smooth as Silk

as John Kimble

1946
Strange Confession

as Stevens

1945
The Frozen Ghost

as George Keene

1945
I'll Remember April

as Willie Winchester

1945
The Royal Mounted Rides Again

as Brad Taggart

1945
Swing Out, Sister

as Tim Colby

1945
She Gets Her Man

as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker

1945
The Master Key

as Agent Tom Brant

1945
Jungle Woman

as Fred Mason

1944
The Great Alaskan Mystery

as Jim Hudson

1944
Hi, Good Lookin'!

as Gib Dickson

1944
Milburn Stone Milburn Stone

Birthday

1904-07-05

Place of Birth

Burrton, Kansas, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934). In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong. Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke. For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
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