Portrait of Mort Mills

Mort Mills

Acting

Biography

Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957–1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley. He portrayed supporting roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966), and in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born: January 11, 1919

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

1993
24 Hour Psycho

as Highway Patrol Officer (archive footage)

1970
Breakout

as Middleton

1970
Soldier Blue

as Sgt. O'Hearn

1969
Strategy of Terror

as Victor Pelling

1968
Land of the Giants

as Constable

1968
Adam-12

as Luke Nathan

1968
The Name of the Game Is Kill

as Sheriff Fred Kendall

1967
1967
Ironside

as Mike Hennessy

1967
1967
The Invaders

as Mr. Arius

1966
Mission: Impossible

as Al Souchek

1966
Mission: Impossible

as William Conway

1966
The Green Hornet

as Alex Colony

1966
Torn Curtain

as Farmer

1966
Blindfold

as Henchman

1965
1965
The Big Valley

as Sheriff

1965
The Outlaws Is Coming

as Trigger Mortis

1964
Where Love Has Gone

as Petey Peterson

1964
Daniel Boone

as Andrew Hubbard

1964
Daniel Boone

as Gen. Grosscup

1964
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Victor Prelling

1963
The Fugitive

as Murchison

1963
The Fugitive

as George Mangus

1963
The Fugitive

as Ranger Ritter

1962
The Virginian

as Deputy Bender

1962
The Virginian

as Garrett

1962
The Virginian

as Bert Devlin

1961
1960
Dante

as Lt. Robert Malone

1960
Psycho

as Highway Patrol Officer

1960
1959
1959
Law of the Plainsman

as Zeb Derkson

1958
Bat Masterson

as Barney Kaster

1958
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Clark Daimler

1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Harmon Stone

1958
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Tom Summers

1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Frank Jeffers

1958
Touch of Evil

as Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant

1957
1957
Bombers B-52

as Sgt. Addressing Flyers (uncredited)

1957
Man Without a Gun

as Marshal Frank Tallman

1957
Maverick

as McGaven

1957
Maverick

as Red Scanlon

1957
Perry Mason

as Sergeant Landro

1957
Perry Mason

as Barry Scott

1957
Sugarfoot

as Smiley

1957
Sugarfoot

as Sheriff Len Gogarty

1957
The Iron Sheriff

as Sutherland

1957
The Shadow on the Window

as Myra's Husband (uncredited)

1956
The Harder They Fall

as Reporter in Hospital (uncredited)

1956
Crashing Las Vegas

as Lead Gangster

1955
Desert Sands

as Wolock - Radio Man (uncredited)

1955
The Marauders

as Carmack

1955
Gunsmoke

as Brake

1955
Gunsmoke

as Howard Bulow

1955
Gunsmoke

as Roble

1955
Gunsmoke

as Jake Harbin

1955
Gunsmoke

as Loren

1955
Gunsmoke

as Jack Marple

1955
The Naked Street

as Finney (uncredited)

1955
Dial Red O

as Newspaper Photographer

1954
Cry Vengeance

as Johnny Blue-Eyes

1954
A Star Is Born

as Makeup Artist (uncredited)

1954
Pushover

as Second Bartender (uncredited)

1954
It Should Happen to You

as Photographer (uncredited)

1953
The Wild One

as Deputy (uncredited)

1953
Texas Bad Man

as Bartender

1953
The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Floyd (uncredited)

1952
1952
Affair in Trinidad

as Martin, Wittol's Henchman (uncredited)

1951