Paul Hurst
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 14, 1888
Day of Death: February 27, 1953 (64 years old)
Place of Birth: Traver, California, USA
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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The Westerner

Actor Pete
Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Actor Headwaiter
Spring Parade

Actor Sheriff
Edison, the Man

Actor Daniels
Torrid Zone

Actor Guard (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson

Actor Pete Haig (uncredited)
They Drive by Night

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Goin' Fishin'

Actor Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech
Star Dust

Actor Slats
South to Karanga
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Gone with the Wind

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Broadway Serenade
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It Could Happen to You

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Remember?

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Bad Lands

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Cafe Society

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On Your Toes

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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

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Each Dawn I Die

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Glove Slingers

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Quick Millions
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Alexander's Ragtime Band

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Topper Takes a Trip

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In Old Chicago

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Island in the Sky

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Secrets of a Nurse

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Prison Break

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Hold That Co-ed

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My Lucky Star

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Josette

Actor Sergeant
No Time to Marry

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The Last Express
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Actor Tiger Malone
Trouble in Morocco

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Angel's Holiday

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Ali Baba Goes to Town

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Danger – Love at Work

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Second Honeymoon

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The Legion of Missing Men

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Wake Up and Live

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She's No Lady
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The Lady Fights Back

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Slave Ship

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We Who Are About to Die

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You Can't Have Everything

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You Can't Beat Love

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This Is My Affair

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Wife, Doctor and Nurse

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Super-Sleuth

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Fifty Roads to Town
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Midnight Alibi

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A Very Honorable Guy

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Take the Stand

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Among the Missing

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The Big Race

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The Ballad of Paducah Jail

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Charlie Chan's Courage
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The Sphinx

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Terror Aboard

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Tugboat Annie

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Queen Christina

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Saturday's Millions

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Day of Reckoning

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The Women in His Life

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Grand Slam

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Hold Your Man
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Island of Lost Souls

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The Big Stampede

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The Thirteenth Guest

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State's Attorney

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Men Are Such Fools

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My Pal, the King

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The Phantom President

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Hold 'Em Jail

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Panama Flo
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Paradise Island

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Swellhead

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Borrowed Wives

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Hot Curves

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The Runaway Bride

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Officer O'Brien

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Lucky Larkin

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Mountain Justice

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Shadow of the Law

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The Third Alarm
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A Lass of the Lumberlands

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Whispering Smith
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The Diamond Runners

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Judith of the Cumberlands
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Medicine Bend

Actor Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst)
The Manager of the B & A

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A Lass of the Lumberlands
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The Girl Detective

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Stingaree

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The Red Signal

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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight

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The Vivisectionist

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The Red Signal

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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight