Paul Fix
Born: 1901-03-13 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
Died: 1983-10-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Paul Fix (March 13, 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York – October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925 to 1981. In the 1950s, Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance alongside Chuck Connors in The Rifleman. Paul Fix died October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California, of kidney failure. He was survived by his daughter Marilyn Carey and son-in-law Harry "Dobe" Carey, three grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Supposedly Fix taught John Wayne -- a lifelong friend -- his famous and distinctive "rolling walk" when Wayne was starting out in the business. He wanted something to set him apart, so Fix suggested the rolling gait that became his trademark.
Filmography
1979
- The Rebels as Officer
- Wanda Nevada as Texas Curly
- Hanging by a Thread as Rogers
1978
- Battlestar Galactica as Commander Kronus
- Just Me and You as The Old Man
1977
- How the West Was Won as Portagee
- The City as Jed Haynes
- Grayeagle as Running Wolf
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Jason Randall
1975
- Switch as Sheriff
- Ellery Queen as Capt. Benjamin Blake
1974
- The Rockford Files as Joe Tooley
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Joe Taylor
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Amos Barringer
- Cahill: United States Marshal as Old Man
- Set This Town on Fire as Sen. Porter
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Pete Maxwell
- Doc Elliot as Gus Turners
1972
- The Waltons as Senator Lucas Avery
- Emergency! as Maxwell Hart
- The Streets of San Francisco as Wade Tillman
- Night of the Lepus as Sheriff Cody
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Shoot Out as Brakeman
- Something Big as Chief Yellow Sun
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Dr. Mel Woodruff
- The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou as Cap'n Pierre
- The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Tom Hansen
1970
- Zabriskie Point as Cafe Owner
- Dirty Dingus Magee as Crazy Blanket
- House on Greenapple Road as Orvie
1969
- Young Billy Young as Charlie
- The Undefeated as General Joe Masters
- Secrets of the Pirate's Inn as Vern Padgett
1968
- The Name of the Game as Old Bob
- Land of the Giants as Dr. Brulle
- Here's Lucy as Indian Chief
- The Doris Day Show as Senator George Bergson
- The Ballad of Josie as Alpheus
- The Outcasts
- Day of the Evil Gun as Sheriff Kelso
1967
- Ironside as Cripple
- Mannix as Johnny Gundersen
- The High Chaparral as Cochise
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Olenhaussen - Stableman
- Judd for the Defense
- Winchester '73 as Ben McAdam
- Welcome to Hard Times as Major Munn
1966
- Star Trek as Dr. Piper
- The Time Tunnel as Henderson
- El Dorado as Dr. Miller
- Family Affair
- Nevada Smith as Sheriff Bonnell
- Ride Beyond Vengeance as Hanley
- Incident at Phantom Hill as General Hood
- An Eye for an Eye as Brian Quince
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Judge Blake
- The Big Valley as Greene
- The F.B.I. as Willard Oberley
- Run for Your Life as Joseph Farrell
- Shenandoah as Dr. Tom Witherspoon
- The Sons of Katie Elder as Sheriff Billy Wilson
- Baby the Rain Must Fall as Juge Ewing
1964
- Daniel Boone as Quonab
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Sam Burke
- The Outrage as Indian
- Profiles in Courage as William Brownlow
- Mail Order Bride as Sheriff Jess Linley
1963
- The Fugitive as Dan Martin
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Hap Collins
1962
- The Virginian as Ebberly Packis
- To Kill a Mockingbird as Judge Taylor
- Sam Benedict
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Mr. McCabe
1959
- Bonanza as Barney
- The Twilight Zone as Colbey
- Rawhide
- Law of the Plainsman as Mr. Coleman
- Riverboat as President Zachary Taylor
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Dr. Abel
- Guns, Girls and Gangsters as Lou Largo
1958
- The Rifleman as Micah Torrance
- Lawman as Pop Marraday
- The Texan as Bert Gorman
- Bronco
- Lafayette Escadrille as U.S. General
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Benjamin Monks
1957
- Perry Mason as District Attorney Hale
- Wagon Train as Jake
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Sheriff Stinchcomb
- Sugarfoot as Jim Bradshaw
- The Restless Gun as Jake Burnett
- Jet Pilot as Maj. Rexford
- Night Passage as Mr. Feeney
- The Court of Last Resort
- Man in the Shadow as Herb Parker
- The Devil's Hairpin as Doc Addams
- Meet McGraw as Wells
- Clipper Ship as Dr. Shaw
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Rufus Stuart
- Giant as Dr. Horace Lynnton
- Broken Arrow as Jess Taugus
- The Bad Seed as Richard Bravo
- Star in the Dust as Mike MacNamara
- Santiago as Trasker
- Toward the Unknown as Lt. Gen. Bryan Shelby
- Wire Service as Thompson
- Man in the Vault as Herbie
- Stagecoach To Fury as Tim O'Connors
1955
- Gunsmoke as McCready
- Blood Alley as Mr. Tso
- The Sea Chase as Max Heinz
- Top of the World as Maj. George French
1954
- Lassie as Sam Snow
- Johnny Guitar as Eddie
- The High and the Mighty as Frank Briscoe
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Vern Padgett
- Ring of Fear ... (Screenplay)
- Superman's Peril as Fingers
1953
- Hondo as Major Sherry
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
- Fair Wind to Java as Wilson
- Island in the Sky as Wally Miller
- Star of Texas as Luke Andrews
- Devil's Canyon as Prison Guard (uncredited)
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Ollie
- Cavalcade of America as Mr. Barton
- The Ford Television Theatre
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Lefty the Shiv
- Ride the Man Down as Ray Cavanaugh
- Denver and Rio Grande as Engineer Moynihan
1951
- Warpath as Pvt. Fiore
- Racket Squad
- Bullfighter and the Lady as Joseph Jamison (uncredited)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Barber
1950
- Surrender as Deputy Williams
- Force of Evil as Bill Ficco
- California Passage as Whalen
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Silk
- Hellfire as Dusty Stoner
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as Gunrunner (uncredited)
- The Fighting Kentuckian as Beau Merritt
- Fighting Man of the Plains as Yancey
1948
- Red River as Teeler Yacey
- The Plunderers as Calico
- Wake of the Red Witch as Antonio 'Ripper' Arrezo
- Angel in Exile as Carl Spitz
1947
- Tycoon as Joe
- Angel and the Badman as Mouse Marr (uncredited)
1945
- Dakota as Carp
- Back to Bataan as Bindle Jackson
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Calico Jim
- Grissly's Millions as Lewis Bentley
1944
- Tall in the Saddle as Bob Clews
- The Fighting Seabees as Ding Jacobs
1943
- Bombardier as Big Guy
- In Old Oklahoma as Cherokee Kid
- The Unknown Guest as Fain
- Captive Wild Woman as Gruen
1942
- Mug Town as Marco
- Sleepytime Gal as Johnny Gatto
- Pittsburgh as Burnside (Mine Operator)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon as Mueller (uncredited)
- South of Santa Fe as Joe Keenan / Harmon
- Kid Glove Killer as Allison Stacy (uncredited)
- Hitler- Dead or Alive as Joe 'The Book' Conway
- Jail House Blues as Danny
- That Other Woman as Nick
- Highways by Night as Gabby
- Escape from Crime as Dude Merrill
- Alias Boston Blackie as Steve Caveroni
1941
- Unfinished Business as Reporter
- Hold That Ghost as Lefty (uncredited)
- A Missouri Outlaw as Mark Roberts
- Gangs Of The City as Scat
- Roar of the Press as 'Sparrow' McGraun
- Down Mexico Way as Henchman Davis
1940
- Dr. Cyclops as Dr. Mendoza
- Virginia City as Murrell's Henchman (uncredited)
- Black Diamonds as Matthews
- Triple Justice as Cleary
- Black Friday as William Kane
- The Ghost Breakers as Frenchy Duval
- The Fargo Kid as Deuce Mallory
- The Crooked Road as Nick Romero
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Lefty
- Glamour for Sale as Louis Manell
- Outside the Three-Mile Limit as Bill Swanson
- Strange Cargo as Benet (uncredited)
- The Great Plane Robbery as Nick Harmon
1939
- Undercover Doctor as Monk Jackson
- Star Reporter as Clipper
- Heroes in Blue as Thug
- Almost a Gentleman as Kidnapper
- Heritage of the Desert as Henchman Chick Chance
- Code of the Streets as Tommy Shay
- The Girl and the Gambler as Charlie
- Those High Grey Walls as Nightingale
- News Is Made at Night as Joe Luddy
- Behind Prison Gates as Convict Petey Ryan
- They All Come Out as Varney (uncredited)
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Jock - a Sailor
- Two Thoroughbreds as Stablemaster
1938
- Crime Ring as Slim
- Mannequin as Smooch Hanrahan (Uncredited)
- The Crowd Roars as Joe the Warehouse Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Walking Down Broadway as Man in Baccarat Club Bar
- King of Alcatraz as 'Nails' Miller
- The Saint in New York as Phil Farrell (Uncredited)
- The Night Hawk as Spider
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Gangster (Uncredited)
- Crime Takes a Holiday as Louie
- When G-Men Step In as Clip Phillips, Fred's Henchman
- Smashing the Rackets as Maxie
1937
- Hot Water as Horner (uncredited)
- Armored Car as Slim
- Border Cafe as Doley
- Souls at Sea as Violinist
- On Such a Night as Maxie Barnes
- The Game That Kills as Dick Adams
- Paid to Dance as Nifty
- Daughter of Shanghai as Miles
- Her Husband Lies as Lefty Harkis
- King of Gamblers as Charlie
- It Can't Last Forever as Mikey
- Woman in Distress as Emory
1936
- Yellowstone as Dynamite
- Winterset as Joe
- Navy Born as Joe Vezie
- The Plot Thickens as Joe
- The Ex-Mrs. Bradford as Lou Pender (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger as "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
- 36 Hours to Kill as Gangster
- The Road to Glory as Rigaud
- Two in a Crowd as Bonelli's Henchman
- Straight from the Shoulder as Trigger Benson
- The Prisoner of Shark Island as David Herold
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track as Lefty
- After the Thin Man as Phil Byrnes / Ralph West
- The Bridge of Sighs as Harrison Courtney, Jr. aka Harry West
- Phantom Patrol as Henchman Jo-Jo Regan
- Wanted: Jane Turner as Crowley's Henchman (uncredited)
1935
- Mutiny Ahead as Teeter Smith
- Reckless as Man on Mechanical Horse (uncredited)
- Men Without Names as Cowardly Gangster in Getaway Launch
- The Desert Trail as Jim
- Bar 20 Rides Again as Gila
- Valley of Wanted Men as Mike Masters
- The Eagle's Brood as Steve
- The Crimson Trail as Paul - Bellair Ranch Hand
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Man Betting $2500 on Caprice (Uncredited)
- Millions in the Air as Hank (the Drunk)
- Let 'em Have It as Sam
- Bulldog Courage as Bailey
- His Fighting Blood as Phil Elliott
- The Throwback as Spike Travis
- On the Run as Jim
1934
- Rocky Rhodes as Joe Hilton
- The World Accuses as John Weymouth
1933
- Emergency Call as Dr. Mason (uncredited)
- The Sphinx as Dave Werner
- Fargo Express as Mort Clark
- Zoo in Budapest as Heinie
- The Devil's Mate as Maloney
- The Avenger as Vickers
- Somewhere in Sonora as Bart Leadly
- The Important Witness as Tony
1932
- Life Begins as Anxious Expectant Father (uncredited)
- Free Eats as Elvira
- The Night of June 13 as Reporter (uncredited)
- Scarface as Hood with Gaffney (uncredited)
- Dancers in the Dark as Benny
- South of the Rio Grande as Juan Olivarez
- The Last Mile as Eddie Werner... Cell 8
- The Racing Strain as King Kelly
1931
- Bad Girl as Nervous Expectant Father (uncredited)
- The Good Bad Girl as Roach
- Three Girls Lost as Tony Halcomb (uncredited)
- Young as You Feel as Desk Clerk
- The Avenger as Juan Murietta (uncredited)
- The Fighting Sheriff as Jack Cameron
1930
- Hungarian Rhapsody as Young Gypsy
1929
- Lucky Star as Joe
1928
- The First Kiss as Ezra Talbot
1926
1925
- The Perfect Clown as Bellhop (uncredited)