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