Mort Mills
Date of birth: 1919-01-11
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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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
Movie Credits
Psycho
1960-06-22
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starti
Touch of Evil
1958-03-30
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag
Torn Curtain
1966-07-15
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and
The Outlaws Is Coming
1965-01-14
Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy
The Name of the Game Is Kill
1968-05-01
A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactl
Cry Vengeance
1954-11-24
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, fra
Soldier Blue
1970-08-12
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive privat
Affair in Trinidad
1952-07-29
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
24 Hour Psycho
1993-01-01
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The wor
Where Love Has Gone
1964-11-02
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963-11-06
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. Th
Twenty Plus Two
1961-08-13
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newsp
Desert Sands
1955-11-18
The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Bullet for a Badman
1964-09-01
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan
The Wild One
1953-12-30
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise
Return of the Gunfighter
1967-03-25
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
The Iron Sheriff
1957-04-01
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath
Dial Red O
1955-03-13
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's de
Ride a Crooked Trail
1958-11-23
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbl
Strategy of Terror
1969-01-01
A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Fi
Man in the Shadow
1957-12-12
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff t
The Harder They Fall
1956-05-08
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his curre
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career
The Shadow on the Window
1957-03-06
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - t
Blindfold
1966-05-23
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a s
It Should Happen to You
1954-01-15
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a docum
The Quick Gun
1964-04-01
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Breakout
1970-12-08
A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1956-10-02
Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956-07-18
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a
Crashing Las Vegas
1956-04-27
An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win en
Texas Bad Man
1953-12-20
Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man c
The Marauders
1955-09-26
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang
Bombers B-52
1957-11-22
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more re
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953-07-13
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953-06-12
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationsh
Pushover
1954-07-14
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
The Naked Street
1955-08-01
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid