Acting
145
Man
Jul 5, 1904
Jun 12, 1980 (75)
Burrton, Kansas, USA
Milburn Stone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934). In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong. Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke. For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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— | Hollywood Classic Special | |
1979 | When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion | Self |
1973 | The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | Self |
1969 | The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour | Self |
1957 | Drango | Col. Bracken |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Doc |
1955 | The Long Gray Line | John Pershing |
1955 | The Private War of Major Benson | Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey |
1955 | White Feather | Commissioner Trenton |
1955 | Smoke Signal | Sergeant Miles |
1954 | Black Tuesday | Father Slocum |
1954 | Climax! | Mr. Dale |
1954 | The Siege at Red River | Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman |
1953 | Pickup on South Street | Detective Winoki |
1953 | Invaders from Mars | Army Capt. Roth |
1953 | The Sun Shines Bright | Horace K. Maydew |
1953 | Second Chance | Edward Dawson (uncredited) |
1953 | Arrowhead | Sandy MacKinnon |
1952 | The Atomic City | Insp. Harold Mann |
1952 | The Savage | Cpl. Martin |
1952 | Behind Southern Lines | |
1951 | Flying Leathernecks | Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited) |
1951 | Operation Pacific | Ground Control Officer (uncredited) |
1951 | The Racket | Member of Craig's Team (uncredited) |
1951 | Dragnet | |
1951 | Roadblock | Ray Egan |
1951 | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | |
1951 | Racket Squad | |
1950 | No Man of Her Own | Plainclothesman |
1950 | Branded | Dawson |
1950 | The Fireball | Jeff Davis |
1950 | Snow Dog | Dr. F. J. McKenzie |
1949 | The Judge | Martin Strang |
1949 | The Green Promise | Rev. Benton |
1949 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass | Abe Jones |
1949 | Sky Dragon | Pilot Tim Norton |
1948 | Train to Alcatraz | Bart Kanin |
1947 | Buck Privates Come Home | Announcer |
1947 | Heading for Heaven | Elwood Harding |
1947 | Killer McCoy | Henchman (uncredited) |
1947 | Killer Dill | Maboose |
1947 | Michigan Kid | Lanny Slade |
1946 | Little Giant | Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice) |
1946 | The Spider Woman Strikes Back | Mr. Moore |
1946 | Inside Job | District Attorney Sutton |
1946 | Smooth as Silk | John Kimble |
1946 | Her Adventurous Night | Cop #1 |
1946 | Little Miss Big | Father Lennergan |
1946 | Danger Woman | Gerald King |
1946 | The Scarlet Horseman | Narrator |
1946 | Strange Conquest | Bert Morrow |
1945 | The Frozen Ghost | George Keene |
1945 | Strange Confession | Stevens |
1945 | She Gets Her Man | 'Tommy Gun' Tucker |
1945 | The Royal Mounted Rides Again | Brad Taggart |
1945 | Swing Out, Sister | Tim Colby |
1945 | I'll Remember April | Willie Winchester |
1945 | The Daltons Ride Again | Parker W. Graham |
1945 | The Master Key | Agent Tom Brant |
1945 | Enemy Bacteria | Doctor |
1945 | The Beautiful Cheat | Lucius Haven |
1945 | On Stage Everybody | Fitzgerald |
1944 | Phantom Lady | District Attorney (voice) (uncredited) |
1944 | Weird Woman | |
1944 | Jungle Woman | Fred Mason |
1944 | Hi, Good Lookin'! | Bill Eaton |
1944 | Hi, Good Lookin'! | Gib Dickson |
1944 | The Great Alaskan Mystery | Jim Hudson |
1944 | Moon Over Las Vegas | Jim Bradley |
1944 | Twilight on the Prairie | Gainsworth |
1944 | Prices Unlimited | |
1943 | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death | Capt. Pat Vickery |
1943 | Captive Wild Woman | Fred Mason |
1943 | The Mad Ghoul | Sgt. Macklin |
1943 | Gung Ho! | Cmdr. Blake |
1943 | Destroyer | Radioman (uncredited) |
1943 | Corvette K-225 | Canadian Captain |
1943 | You Can't Beat the Law | Frank Sanders |
1943 | Keep 'Em Slugging | Duke Redman |
1943 | Silent Witness | Racketeer Joe Manson |
1943 | Get Going | Mr. Tuttle |
1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Lieutenant Farragut |
1942 | Invisible Agent | German Sergeant (uncredited) |
1942 | Eyes in the Night | Detective Pete (Uncredited) |
1942 | Rubber Racketeers | Angel |
1942 | Frisco Lil | |
1942 | Pacific Rendezvous | Hotel Desk Clerk |
1941 | No Hands on the Clock | FBI Agent |
1941 | The Great Train Robbery | Duke Logan |
1941 | The Phantom Cowboy | Stan Borden |
1941 | Death Valley Outlaws | Jeff |
1940 | Johnny Apollo | Reporter (uncredited) |
1940 | Lillian Russell | Jack - Reporter |
1940 | Colorado | Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason |
1940 | An Angel from Texas | 'Pooch' Davis |
1940 | Chasing Trouble | Pat Callahan |
1940 | Public Deb No. 1 | Reporter |
1940 | Framed | Mathew Mattison |
1940 | Enemy Agent | Meeker |
1940 | Give Us Wings | Tex Austin |
1940 | Buyer Beware | Fredericks (uncredited) |
1940 | American Portrait | George |
1940 | The Great Plane Robbery | Krebber |
1939 | Young Mr. Lincoln | Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited) |
1939 | Made for Each Other | Newark Official (uncredited) |
1939 | Blind Alley | Nick |
1939 | Nick Carter, Master Detective | Krebs - 2d hurt worker |
1939 | Blackwell's Island | Max (uncredited) |
1939 | Tail Spin | Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited) |
1939 | Danger Flight | Skeeter |
1939 | Society Smugglers | Peter Garfield |
1939 | Fighting Mad | Cardigan |
1939 | Crashing Thru | Delos Harrington |
1939 | Mystery Plane | Skeeter Milligan |
1939 | Charlie McCarthy, Detective | Joe Felton |
1939 | Sky Patrol | Skeeter Milligan |
1939 | King of the Turf | Taylor |
1939 | The Big Guy | Publicity man (uncredited) |
1939 | Stunt Pilot | 'Skeeter' Milligan |
1939 | Tropic Fury | Thomas E. Snell (as Milburne Stone) |
1938 | Wives Under Suspicion | Kirk |
1938 | Sinners in Paradise | T.L. Honeyman |
1938 | Mr. Boggs Steps Out | Burns |
1938 | Port of Missing Girls | Jim Benton |
1938 | Paroled from the Big House | Commissioner Downey |
1938 | California Frontier | Mal Halstead |
1937 | Atlantic Flight | Henry Wadsworth Schultz |
1937 | They Gave Him a Gun | Defense Attorney (uncredited) |
1937 | Youth on Parole | Ratty |
1937 | The 13th Man | Jimmy Moran |
1937 | Music for Madame | Detective (Uncredited) |
1937 | A Doctor's Diary | Fred Clark |
1937 | Blazing Barriers | Joe Waters |
1937 | Swing It Professor | Lou Morgan |
1937 | The Wildcatter | Ed |
1937 | Wings Over Honolulu | Telephone Operator |
1937 | Federal Bullets | Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent |
1936 | The Princess Comes Across | American Reporter (uncredited) |
1936 | China Clipper | Radio Operator |
1936 | Murder with Pictures | Operator (uncredited) |
1936 | The Accusing Finger | Convict |
1936 | The Three Mesquiteers | John |
1936 | Two in a Crowd | Kennedy (uncredited) |
1935 | Rendezvous | Carter's Aide (uncredited) |
1935 | Cheers of the Crowd | Reporter (uncredited) |