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Milburn Stone


Actor

About

Birth Place
Burton, Kansas, USA
Born
July 05, 1904

Biography

Miburn Stone is renowned for his decades-spanning role as Doc Adams on the classic Western TV series "Gunsmoke." Stone began his career during the Hollywood heyday of the 1930s, appearing in dozens of films. In the 1940s, he began to win more prominent roles, with notable turns in the war drama "Gung Ho!" and the musical "I'll Remember April." He later starred in the secret-agent serial ...

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Biography

Miburn Stone is renowned for his decades-spanning role as Doc Adams on the classic Western TV series "Gunsmoke." Stone began his career during the Hollywood heyday of the 1930s, appearing in dozens of films. In the 1940s, he began to win more prominent roles, with notable turns in the war drama "Gung Ho!" and the musical "I'll Remember April." He later starred in the secret-agent serial "The Master Key." His signature role as Doc Adams started in 1955, and the series ran for a remarkable 20 years, with Stone only absent from a handful of episodes. He retired from acting following the show's finale in 1975.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Drango (1957)
Col. Bracken
Smoke Signal (1955)
Sergeant Miles
Black Tuesday (1955)
Father Slocum
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Capt. John Pershing
White Feather (1955)
Commissioner Trenton
The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
Major General [Wilton Jim] Ramsey
Siege at Red River (1954)
Sgt. Benjamin Guderman, known as Benjy
Second Chance (1953)
Edward Dawson
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Horace K. Maydew
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Capt. Roth
Arrowhead (1953)
Sandy Mackinnon
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Winoki
The Atomic City (1952)
Inspector Harold Mann
The Savage (1952)
Corp. Martin
Behind Southern Lines (1952)
Roadblock (1951)
Ray Egan
The Racket (1951)
Foster
Branded (1951)
Dawson
The Fireball (1950)
Jeff Davis
Snow Dog (1950)
Dr. F. J. McKenzie
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Plain-clothes-man
The Judge (1949)
Martin Strang
The Green Promise (1949)
Reverend [Jim] Benton
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
Abe Jones
The Sky Dragon (1949)
Tim Norton
Heading for Heaven (1948)
Harding
Cass Timberlane (1948)
Nester Purdwin
Train to Alcatraz (1948)
Bart Kanin
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Announcer
Killer Dill (1947)
Maboose
Killer McCoy (1947)
Walsh's bodyguard
Time Out of Mind (1947)
Stage manager
Michigan Kid (1947)
Lanny Slade
Smooth as Silk (1946)
John Kimball
Danger Woman (1946)
Gerald King
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
Mr. Moore
Strange Conquest (1946)
Bert Morrow
Inside Job (1946)
District Attorney Sutton
Her Adventurous Night (1946)
Cop
Little Miss Big (1946)
Father Lennergan
I'll Remember April (1945)
[Bill] Winchester
The Frozen Ghost (1945)
George Keene
Strange Confession (1945)
Stevens
She Gets Her Man (1945)
[Tommy] Tommy Gun [Tucker]
The Daltons Ride Again (1945)
Graham
Swing Out Sister (1945)
Tim [Colby]
The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
Lucius Haven
On Stage Everybody (1945)
Fitzgerald
Hat Check Honey (1944)
David Courtland
Jungle Woman (1944)
Fred Mason
Phantom Lady (1944)
District Attorney
The Impostor (1944)
Clauzel
Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944)
Bill Eaton
Moon Over Las Vegas (1944)
Jim Bradley
Twilight on the Prairie (1944)
Gainsworth
The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Macklin
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Fred Mason
You Can't Beat the Law (1943)
Frank Sanders
Silent Witness (1943)
Joe Manson
Get Going (1943)
Mr. Tuttle
Gung Ho! (1943)
Commander Blake
Corvette K-225 (1943)
Canadian captain
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Duke Redman
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Captain [Pat] Vickery
'Frisco Lil (1942)
Mike
Police Bullets (1942)
Johnny Reilly
Eyes in the Night (1942)
Pete
The Invisible Agent (1942)
German sergeant
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Lieutenant Farragut
Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
Desk manager
Rubber Racketeers (1942)
Angel
The Phantom Cowboy (1941)
Stan Borden
Death Valley Outlaws (1941)
Jeff Edwards
The Great Train Robbery (1941)
Duke Logan
Colorado (1940)
Don Burke, also known as Capt. Donald Mason
Chasing Trouble (1940)
Callahan
Enemy Agent (1940)
Meeker
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Reporter
Lillian Russell (1940)
Reporter
Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Reporter
An Angel from Texas (1940)
Pooch Davis
Give Us Wings (1940)
Tex
Framed (1940)
Matthew Mattison
The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
Krebber
Fighting Mad (1939)
Cardigan
Crashing Thru (1939)
Herrington
Sky Patrol (1939)
Skeeter
Danger Flight (1939)
Skeeter
Mystery Plane (1939)
Skeeter
Stunt Pilot (1939)
Skeeter
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Stephen A. Douglas
Blackwell's Island (1939)
Max, deputy commissioner
King of the Turf (1939)
Taylor
The Big Guy (1939)
Publicity man
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Joe Felton
Tail Spin (1939)
Mechanic
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Head of bus boys
Tropic Fury (1939)
Thomas Snell
Blind Alley (1939)
Nick
Society Smugglers (1939)
Peter Garfield
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
Dave Krebs
Paroled from the Big House (1938)
District Attorney Downey
The Port of Missing Girls (1938)
Jim
California Frontier (1938)
Mal Halstead
The Storm (1938)
Ship's officer
Crime School (1938)
Joe Delaney
Sinners in Paradise (1938)
[T. L.] Honeyman
Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Kirk
Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
Burns
Blazing Barriers (1937)
Joe Waters
The 13th Man (1937)
Jimmy Moran
Atlantic Flight (1937)
Henry Wadsworth Schultz, known as "Pokey"
Federal Bullets (1937)
Tommy Thompson
Swing It Professor (1937)
Lou [Morgan]
You Can't Beat Love (1937)
Wilson
Reported Missing (1937)
Radio operator
Music for Madame (1937)
Detective
Wings over Honolulu (1937)
Telephone operator
The Man in Blue (1937)
"Dutch"
Youth on Parole (1937)
Ratty
A Doctor's Diary (1937)
Fred Clark
The Milky Way (1936)
First reporter
China Clipper (1936)
Radio operator
Rose Bowl (1936)
Member of Rubber band
Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Sailor
Nobody's Fool (1936)
Clerk
The Accusing Finger (1936)
Convict
Princess Comes Across (1936)
American reporter
Murder with Pictures (1936)
Operator
Two in a Crowd (1936)
Kennedy
The Man I Marry (1936)
Stage manager
The Three Mesquiteers (1936)
John
His Night Out (1935)
Salesman

Cast (Special)

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979)

Cast (Short)

Buyer Beware (1940)

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Mad Ghoul - Publicity Stills
Here are several Publicity Stills from Universal Pictures' The Mad Ghoul (1943). Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, taken for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
The Mad Ghoul - Scene Stills
Here are some scene stills from Universal Pictures' The Mad Ghoul (1943), starring David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, and George Zucco.
The Mad Ghoul - Lobby Cards
Here are several Lobby Cards from Universal Pictures' The Mad Ghoul (1943). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

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