Paul Hurst
Actor/Actriz
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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)
Como Actor/Actriz
Lo que el viento se llevó
Yankee Deserter
El caballero del desierto
Chickenfoot
El secreto de vivir
1st Deputy (uncredited)
Angel and the Badman
Frederick Carson
Conciencias muertas
Monty Smith
Dakota
Captain Spotts
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)
Cielo amarillo
Drunk (uncredited)
La Reina Cristina
Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)
La pasión manda
Pete Haig (uncredited)
La isla de las almas perdidas
Capt. Donahue
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Biff Sage
Rebecca
Florabelle's Father
El virginiano
Broadway Serenade
Reynolds, a Drunk
Edison, el hombre
Sheriff
In Old Chicago
Mitch
Each Dawn I Die
Garsky
Coney Island
Louie
Super-Sleuth
Motorcycle Cop
You Can't Have Everything
Truck Driver (uncredited)
The Secret Six
Nick Mizoski - the Gouger
Fifty Roads to Town
Tom
December 7th
World War I Ghost Soldier
Sequoia
Bergman
Riffraff
Belcher
We Who Are About to Die
Tip Fuller
Hold 'Em Jail
Butch
The Sun Shines Bright
Jimmy Bagby
Big Jim McLain
Mr. Lexiter
Detrás de Cámaras
The Tiger's Trail
Director
Blue Streak O'Neil
Director
Lightning Bryce
Director
Table Top Ranch
Historia, Scenario Writer, Director
The Woman in the Web
Director
Branded a Bandit
Director, Historia, Scenario Writer
Shadows of the West
Director
Folly of Youth
Director
Haunted Range
Director
The Red Signal
Director
The Heart of a Texan
Scenario Writer, Director
A Lass of the Lumberlands
Director
Rangeland
Escritor, Director
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Productor
The Midnight Message
Director
The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Director
The Demon Rider
Director
The Railroad Raiders
Escritor, Director
The Crow's Nest
Director
Roaring Road
Director
The Passing of Wolf MacLean
Director
Battling Bunyan
Director
King Fisher's Roost
Director, Scenario Writer, Historia
A Western Engagement
Director