Paul Hurst actor
- Total known movies 209
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 Hollywoods 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)
Cookie
Movie 1945
Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited)
Movie 1926
Slats O'Dell
Movie 1941
Bad Bill - a Desperado
Movie 1912
Sheriff
Movie 1945
Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst)
Movie 1917
Benton - a Foreman
Movie 1917
Blair / Thompson / Michaels / Snake Henely / Mike Donegal / Bat Dorgan / Kelly / Dalton / Blake
Movie 1915
Movie 1916
Archie Billings
Movie 1943
Chickenfoot
Movie 1940
Movie 1952
Ray Harvey
Movie 1951
Florabelle's Father
Movie 1938
'Arizona' Frank Bailey
Movie 1932
Page
Movie 1941
Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)
Movie 1923
Orloff
Movie 1944
Murray Sinclair
Movie 1916
Sgt. Murphy
Movie 1937
Captain Lanning - Osborn's Rival
Movie 1914
Paul Hurst
Movie 1931
Daniels
Movie 1914
World War I Ghost Soldier
Movie 1943
Ike Bray
Movie 1918
Howie - Stingaree's Partner
Movie 1915
Boatswain
Movie 1933
Captain
Movie 1937
Sgt. Burns
Movie 1941
Chief Dispatcher
Movie 1915
Benton, the Foreman
Movie 1914
Bergman
Movie 1935
Murray Sinclair
Movie 1916
Blatchley Turrentine
Movie 1916
Paul - the Brains of the I.D.B.
Movie 1916
Sergeant Casper Riordan
Movie 1942
Reynolds, a Drunk
Movie 1939
Mugsy
Movie 1930
Sandy
Movie 1939
Bull Morgan
Movie 1930
Sheriff Jug Mason
Movie 1949
Mexican Bandit
Movie 1931
Babe the Butcher
Movie 1934
"Sport" Conly
Movie 1936
Sitchi
Movie 1928
Ed the bartender
Movie 1943
Bartender
Movie 1931
'Slug', Baseball Player
Movie 1930
Lt. Sackville
Movie 1935
Pete
Movie 1940
Curly Tom
Movie 1939
Muggsy
Movie 1937
McCabe
Movie 1937
Thomas
Movie 1941
Soapy
Movie 1938
Dock Foreman (uncredited)
Movie 1943
Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited)
Movie 1944
Sergeant Daly
Movie 1930
Captain Antrim
Movie 1930
Police Captain Morgan
Movie 1932
'Swig' Moran
Movie 1927
Slug
Movie 1931
Rowdy Ryan
Movie 1929
Stiles
Movie 1932
Sergeant Murphy
Movie 1927
Ramirez
Movie 1929
Pete Brierson
Movie 1930
Lem Harland
Movie 1930
Red Axe
Movie 1913
Cop
Movie 1937
Maloney
Movie 1937
Pete Shore
Movie 1930
A. Adolphus Heyman
Movie 1938
Powder Solvang
Movie 1919
Rufe Parker
Movie 1935
A Trainman
Movie 1915
Jimmylegs
Movie 1929
Tip Fuller
Movie 1937
Movie 1926
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Movie 1937
Bartender
Movie 1939
(uncredited)
Movie 1928
Movie 1946
Detective
Movie 1934
Expressman (uncredited)
Movie 1935
Variety Club Bartender
Movie 1939
Denny O'Brien
Movie 1934
Two-Gun
Movie 1942
Sheriff Hank Hartley
Movie 1949
Chuck Brenner
Movie 1939
Randeau
Movie 1927
Sailor (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Railroad-Yard Superintendent
Movie 1929
Butch
Movie 1932
Bart - Jardine's Servant
Movie 1915
1st Deputy (uncredited)
Movie 1936
Sheriff
Movie 1940
Pete Connors
Movie 1948
Louie
Movie 1943
Gabby
Movie 1931
Carlson
Movie 1936
Sergeant
Movie 1938
Jake Waldren
Movie 1941
Eli Walker
Movie 1948
Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer
Movie 1938
Chuck Waggoner
Movie 1948
Stevens
Movie 1918
Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Bill
Movie 1937
Guard (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Pete Haig (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Al
Movie 1932
John X. Finn
Movie 1950
Second Mate Mumford
Movie 1941
Broderick
Movie 1942
Detective Whip Fogarty
Movie 1931
Movie 1940
Lucky John Hawkins
Movie 1947
Policeman
Movie 1935
Otis Ellis
Movie 1949
Doc Meadowlark
Movie 1949
Drunk (uncredited)
Movie 1948
Jake Compton
Movie 1944
Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech
Movie 1940
Harry
Movie 1933
Skipper O'Neal
Movie 1934
Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film
Movie 1933
McDonald
Movie 1927
Feets
Movie 1942
Movie 1926
Sheriff Slim Carson
Movie 1944
Slats
Movie 1940
'Beauty' Johnson
Movie 1930
Sheriff
Movie 1939
Belcher
Movie 1936
Escaped Felon
Movie 1934
Detective Roscoe
Movie 1935
Aubrey C. Mitchell (uncredited)
Movie 1933
