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Mort Mills

Mort Mills

Born: 1919-01-11 • New York City, New York, USA

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).

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Filmography
24 Hour Psycho poster
24 Hour Psycho
1993 • Highway Patrol Officer (archive footage)
Breakout poster
Breakout
1970 • Middleton
Soldier Blue poster
Soldier Blue
1970 • Sgt. O'Hearn
Strategy of Terror poster
Strategy of Terror
1969 • Victor Pelling
The Name of the Game Is Kill poster
The Name of the Game Is Kill
1968 • Sheriff Fred Kendall
Return of the Gunfighter poster
Return of the Gunfighter
1967 • Will Parker
Torn Curtain poster
Torn Curtain
1966 • Farmer
Blindfold poster
Blindfold
1966 • Henchman
The Outlaws Is Coming poster
The Outlaws Is Coming
1965 • Trigger Mortis
Where Love Has Gone poster
Where Love Has Gone
1964 • Petey Peterson
Bullet for a Badman poster
Bullet for a Badman
1964 • Ira
The Quick Gun poster
The Quick Gun
1964 • Cagle
Gunfight at Comanche Creek poster
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963 • Ben Bayer
Twenty Plus Two poster
Twenty Plus Two
1961 • Harbin
Psycho poster
Psycho
1960 • Highway Patrol Officer
Ride a Crooked Trail poster
Ride a Crooked Trail
1958 • Pecos
Touch of Evil poster
Touch of Evil
1958 • Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant
Man in the Shadow poster
Man in the Shadow
1957 • Geteman
Bombers B-52 poster
Bombers B-52
1957 • Sgt. Addressing Flyers (uncredited)
The Iron Sheriff poster
The Iron Sheriff
1957 • Sutherland
The Shadow on the Window poster
The Shadow on the Window
1957 • Myra's Husband (uncredited)
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure poster
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1956 • policeman
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates poster
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956 • Sam Mason
The Harder They Fall poster
The Harder They Fall
1956 • Reporter in Hospital (uncredited)
Crashing Las Vegas poster
Crashing Las Vegas
1956 • Lead Gangster
Desert Sands poster
Desert Sands
1955 • Wolock - Radio Man (uncredited)
The Marauders poster
The Marauders
1955 • Carmack
The Naked Street poster
The Naked Street
1955 • Finney (uncredited)
Dial Red O poster
Dial Red O
1955 • Newspaper Photographer
Cry Vengeance poster
Cry Vengeance
1954 • Johnny Blue-Eyes
A Star Is Born poster
A Star Is Born
1954 • Makeup Artist (uncredited)
Pushover poster
Pushover
1954 • Second Bartender (uncredited)
It Should Happen to You poster
It Should Happen to You
1954 • Photographer (uncredited)
The Wild One poster
The Wild One
1953 • Deputy (uncredited)
Texas Bad Man poster
Texas Bad Man
1953 • Bartender
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive poster
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953 • Doctor
The Farmer Takes a Wife poster
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953 • Floyd (uncredited)
Affair in Trinidad poster
Affair in Trinidad
1952 • Martin, Wittol's Henchman (uncredited)