Paul Hurst
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1888-10-14
- Fallecimiento:
- 1953-02-27
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Traver, California, USA
Biografía
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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El sol siempre brilla en Kentucky
Toughest Man in Arizona
Intriga en Honolulu
Million Dollar Pursuit
The Missourians
The Old Frontier
The Vanishing Westerner
Pioneer Marshal
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
San Antone Ambush
South of Rio
Outcasts of the Trail
Law of the Golden West
Prince of the Plains
Gun Smugglers
Cielo amarillo
Son of God’s Country
Los vigilantes de Arizona
Heart of Virginia
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
California Firebrand
Madonna of the Desert
Under Colorado Skies
El ángel y el pistolero
The Plainsman and the Lady
Death Valley
In Old Sacramento
El virginiano
Murder in the Music Hall
Dakota
Midnight Manhunt
Steppin' in Society
Scared Stiff
The Big Show-Off
Something for the Boys
Una chica urgentemente
Barbary Coast Gent
Extraña confesión
The Ghost That Walks Alone
El límite es el cielo
Se necesitan maridos
Incidente en Ox-Bow
El 7 de diciembre
Hi'ya, Chum
Calaboose
Night in New Orleans
Sundown Jim
Dudes Are Pretty People
Pardon My Stripes
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
This Woman Is Mine
The Parson of Panamint
El recluta enamorado
The Great Mr. Nobody
Petticoat Politics
Virginia
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Goin' Fishin'
Spring Parade
El forastero
South to Karanga
La pasión ciega
Zona tórrida
Edison, el hombre
Star Dust
Castle on the Hudson
Remember?
Lo que el viento se llevó
Glove Slingers
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
On Your Toes
Bad Lands
Quick Millions
Muero cada amanecer
It Could Happen to You
Se llevó mi corazón
Cafe Society
La pareja invisible se divierte
Secrets of a Nurse
The Last Express
Hold That Co-ed
My Lucky Star
Prison Break
Josette
La banda de Alexander
Chicago
Island in the Sky
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
No Time to Marry
Second Honeymoon
Ali Baba Goes to Town
The Lady Fights Back
Amor en la oficina
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Wake Up and Live
She's No Lady
You Can't Have Everything
The Legion of Missing Men
Super-Sleuth
No luches contra el amor
Redención
Angel's Holiday
Fifty Roads to Town
La contraseña
Trouble in Morocco
We Who Are About to Die
North of Nome
The Gay Desperado
I'd Give My Life
To Mary - with Love
Blackmailer
El secreto de vivir
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Flor de arrabal
La alegre mentira
Wilderness Mail
The Daring Young Man
Calm Yourself
Public Hero Number 1
The Case of the Curious Bride
El cantor del río
Shadow of Doubt
Carnival
Sequoia
Maybe It's Love
The Ballad of Paducah Jail
Tomorrow's Youth
Among the Missing
Take the Stand
Midnight Alibi
El valor de Charlie Chan
A Very Honorable Guy
The Line-Up
The Big Race
La reina Cristina de Suecia
The Women in His Life
Day of Reckoning
Saturday's Millions
Ana la del remolcador
Tú eres mío
The Sphinx
Terror Aboard
Grand Slam
La isla de las almas perdidas
Men Are Such Fools
The Big Stampede
The Phantom President
Hold 'Em Jail
The Thirteenth Guest
El fiscal
My Pal, the King
Panama Flo
The Secret Witness
Bad Company
Maker of Men
The Public Defender
That's My Line
Sweepstakes
Kick In
Los seis misteriosos
The Single Sin
The Third Alarm
Borrowed Wives
Paradise Island
Hot Curves
Shadow of the Law
The Runaway Bride
Mountain Justice
The Swellhead
Officer O'Brien
Lucky Larkin
His First Command
The Racketeer
Oh, Yeah!
Sailor's Holiday
The California Mail
Gesto de hidalgo
The Lawless Legion
The Rainbow
El gran combate
The Cossacks
Buttons
The Valley of the Giants
The Red Raiders
The Devil's Saddle
Outlaw's Paradise
Blue Streak O'Neil
The Fighting Ranger
Roaring Road
The Man Who Would Not Die
El jorobado de Notre Dame
Lightning Bryce
Smashing Through
Rimrock Jones
The Further Adventures of Stingaree
The Railroad Raiders
The Hazards of Helen
The Manager of the B & A
The Diamond Runners
Judith of the Cumberlands
Medicine Bend
Whispering Smith
A Lass of the Lumberlands
Stingaree
The Vivisectionist
The Red Signal
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
The Girl Detective
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
The Chief of Police
The Quicksands
The Cave Men's War
The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach