Mort Mills

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Mort Mills (born January 11, 1919 in New York City , † June 6, 1993 in Ventura , California ; actually Mortimer Morris Kaplan ) was an American film and television actor .

life and career

He was frequently seen in the role of sheriff or villain in many westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957 to 1959 he played a supporting role in 23 episodes at the side of Rex Reason as Marshal Frank Tallman in the western series The Man Without a Colt . He had other series roles as Sergeant Ben Landro in Perry Mason and Sheriff Fred Madden in Big Valley . In addition to his television roles, he also appeared regularly in movies. In Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho, he played a patrolman chasing Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh ). Six years later he worked again with Hitchcock and played a spy in East Germany in The Torn Curtain . Mills also appeared with Charlton Heston in Orson Welles ' In Signs of Evil . In 1973 he retired from the acting business after around 140 film and television appearances.

His cousin was the actress Mary Treen . Mill's first marriage, which had two children, ended in divorce. His second marriage lasted from 1956 until his death, from this marriage there was a child.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 1952: Affair in Trinidad (Affair In Trinidad)
  • 1952: No Holds Barred
  • 1953: The Wild (The Wild One)
  • 1953: The Juggler
  • 1953: The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)
  • 1953: Hot West (Hannah Lee: An American Primitive)
  • 1953: Texas Bad Man
  • 1954: Drive a Crooked Road
  • 1954: The Incredible Story of Gladys Glover (It Should Happen to You!)
  • 1954: Scar Face (Cry Vengeance)
  • 1954: A new star in the sky (A Star Is Born)
  • 1954: Checkmate Pushover
  • 1955: Dial Red O
  • 1955: Jupiter's Darling
  • 1955: Settlement in Fort Valeau (Desert Sands)
  • 1955: The Naked Street
  • 1955: To Hell and Back (To Hell And Back)
  • 1956: kidnapping (ransom!)
  • 1956: Dirty Laurel (The Harder They Fall)
  • 1956: Crashing Las Vegas
  • 1956: Blood on My Hands (Tension at Table Rock)
  • 1957: The Shadow on the Window
  • 1957: The Iron Sheriff
  • 1957: The Devil's Wages (Man in the Shadow)
  • 1957: B-52 bombers B-52 bombers
  • 1958: The White Devil of Arkansas (Ride a Crooked Trail)
  • 1958: Touch of Evil (Touch of Evil)
  • 1960: Psycho
  • 1961: Twenty Plus Two
  • 1964: Where the love leads (Where Love Has Gone)
  • 1964: The last bullet hits (Bullet For A Badman)
  • 1964: All hell breaks loose in Montana (The Quick Gun)
  • 1965: The Outlaws Is Coming
  • 1965: New York Express ( Blindfold )
  • 1966: The Torn Curtain
  • 1967: Return Of The Gunfighter : Hot Colts in Hard Fists
  • 1969: Strategy of Terror
  • 1968: The Name Of The Game Is Kill
  • 1970: Breakout (TV movie)
  • 1970: The Lullaby of Homicide (Soldier Blue)

TV Shows

Reading list

  1. ↑ Tim Brooks, Earle F Marsh: The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present . Ballantine Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4 , p. 733.
  2. ↑ Donald Spoto: The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock . Da Capo Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-306-80932-3 , p. 577.
  3. ↑ Michael Walker: Hitchcock's motives . Amsterdam University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-90-5356-772-2 , p. 455.

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personal data
SURNAME Mills, Mort
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1993
Place of death Ventura (California) , California