Acting
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Man
28 Aug 1896
2 Sept 1964 (68)
Danville, Illinois, USA
Morris Ankrum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor. Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939. Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres. Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) |
1964 | Guns of Diablo | Ray Macklin |
1963 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes | Mr. Bowhead (uncredited) |
1962 | Tower of London | The Archbishop |
1961 | Most Dangerous Man Alive | Capt. Davis |
1961 | The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come | Gen. Lew Wallace |
1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Walter Harwood |
1958 | The Rifleman | |
1958 | From the Earth to the Moon | President Ulysses S. Grant |
1958 | How to Make a Monster | Police Capt. Hancock |
1958 | Curse of the Faceless Man | Narrator (unconfirmed) |
1958 | Sea Hunt | |
1958 | Giant from the Unknown | Dr. Frederick Cleveland |
1958 | Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman | Dr. Carl Jordan |
1958 | Badman's Country | Mayor Coleman |
1958 | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Bo Slauter |
1958 | Twilight for the Gods | Sea Captain |
1958 | Frontier Gun | Andrew Barton |
1958 | Young and Wild | Police Capt. Egan |
1958 | Tarawa Beachhead | Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited) |
1958 | The Power of the Resurrection | Annas |
1957 | Perry Mason | Judge |
1957 | Perry Mason | Judge Hoyt |
1957 | The Giant Claw | Lt. Gen. Edward Considine |
1957 | Kronos | Dr. Albert Stern |
1957 | Maverick | Joshua Haines |
1957 | Beginning of the End | Gen. John Hanson |
1957 | Zombies of Mora Tau | Dr. Jonathan Eggert |
1957 | Hell's Crossroads | Wheeler |
1957 | M Squad | Police Inspector Dean |
1957 | Drango | Henry Calder |
1957 | Omar Khayyam | Sharain's Father |
1956 | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Brig. Gen. John Hanley |
1956 | Walk the Proud Land | Gen. Wade |
1956 | Naked Gun | Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum) |
1956 | Quincannon, Frontier Scout | Col. Harry Conover |
1956 | Fury at Gunsight Pass | Doc Phillips |
1956 | When Gangland Strikes | Leo Fantzler |
1956 | The Desperados Are in Town | Mr. Rutherford |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Merle |
1955 | Chief Crazy Horse | Red Cloud |
1955 | Tennessee's Partner | Judge Parker |
1955 | Crashout | Head Guard |
1955 | No Man's Woman | Capt. Hostedder |
1955 | The Last Command | |
1955 | Duel on the Mississippi | Magistrate (uncredited) |
1955 | The Eternal Sea | Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble |
1955 | The Silver Star | Charlie Childress |
1955 | The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story | Azar the Shepherd |
1954 | Vera Cruz | Gen. Ramírez |
1954 | Apache | Dawson |
1954 | Silver Lode | Zachary Evans |
1954 | Cattle Queen of Montana | J.I. 'Pop' Jones |
1954 | Taza, Son of Cochise | Grey Eagle |
1954 | Drums Across the River | Chief Ouray |
1954 | Southwest Passage | Dr. Stanton |
1954 | Three Young Texans | Jeff Blair |
1954 | The Outlaw Stallion | Sheriff |
1954 | The Steel Cage | Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages" |
1954 | Two Guns and a Badge | Sheriff Jackson |
1953 | Invaders from Mars | Col. Fielding |
1953 | Devil's Canyon | Ed |
1953 | The Moonlighter | Alexander Prince |
1953 | The Man Behind The Gun | Bram Creegan |
1953 | Arena | Bucky Hillberry |
1953 | Fort Vengeance | Chief Crowfoot |
1953 | Sky Commando | Gen. W.R. Combs |
1953 | Flight Nurse | Interrogation Officer |
1953 | Mexican Manhunt | Tip Morgan |
1953 | I Beheld His Glory | Peter |
1952 | Red Planet Mars | Secretary of Defense Sparks |
1952 | Son of Ali Baba | Ali Baba |
1952 | Mutiny | Capt. Radford |
1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Warden |
1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mr. Mason |
1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mr. Raymond |
1952 | The Raiders | Thomas Ainsworth |
1952 | Because of You | Dr. Travis |
1952 | Cowboy G-Men | |
1952 | Fort Osage | Arthur Pickett |
1952 | Hiawatha | Iagoo |
1952 | A Star Shall Rise | King Herod |
1951 | Along the Great Divide | Ed Roden |
1951 | Flight To Mars | Ikron |
1951 | Tomorrow Is Another Day | Hugh Wagner |
1951 | My Favorite Spy | Gen. Frazer |
1951 | The Redhead and The Cowboy | Sheriff |
1951 | The Lion Hunters | Tom Forbes |
1951 | Fighting Coast Guard | Navy Captain |
1950 | In a Lonely Place | Lloyd Barnes |
1950 | The Damned Don't Cry | Jim Whitehead |
1950 | Rocketship X-M | Dr. Ralph Fleming |
1950 | Borderline | Bill Whittaker |
1950 | Chain Lightning | Ed Bostwick |
1950 | Southside 1-1000 | Eugene Deane |
1950 | Short Grass | Hal Fenton |
1949 | The Fountainhead | Prosecutor (uncredited) |
1949 | Colorado Territory | United States Marshal |
1949 | We Were Strangers | M. Seymour |
1949 | Bad Men of Tombstone | Mr. Jones |
1948 | Joan of Arc | Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain |
1948 | For the Love of Mary | Adm. Walton |
1948 | Fighting Back | Robert J. Higby |
1948 | Souvenirs of Death | Gangster (uncredited) |
1948 | The Fabulous Fraud | Blind Girl's Father |
1947 | Song of the Thin Man | Inspector (uncredited) |
1947 | The Sea of Grass | A.J. Crane |
1947 | High Wall | Dr. Stanley Griffin |
1947 | Good News | Dean Griswold |
1947 | Desire Me | Hector Martin |
1947 | The Mighty McGurk | Fowles |
1947 | Cynthia | Mr. Phillips, Principal |
1947 | Merton of the Movies | Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited) |
1947 | Little Mister Jim | Col. W.I. Starwell |
1946 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Judge (uncredited) |
1946 | Lady in the Lake | Eugene Grayson |
1946 | The Harvey Girls | Rev. Claggett |
1946 | Courage of Lassie | Farmer Crews |
1946 | The Cockeyed Miracle | Dr. Wilson |
1945 | Adventure | Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited) |
1945 | The Hidden Eye | Ferris (henchman) |
1945 | Phantoms, Inc. | Narrator (voice) |
1945 | Fall Guy | District Attorney (uncredited) |
1945 | Purity Squad | Dr. Adams (uncredited) |
1944 | The Thin Man Goes Home | Willoughby Peavy |
1944 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited) |
1944 | The Heavenly Body | Dr. Green |
1944 | Dark Shadows | Lt. Pat McKay |
1944 | Gentle Annie | Deputy Gansby |
1944 | Barbary Coast Gent | Alec Veeder |
1944 | Meet the People | Monte Rowland |
1944 | Marriage Is a Private Affair | Ed Scofield |
1944 | Main Street Today | Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited) |
1944 | Rationing | Morgan |
1944 | Return from Nowhere | Doctor (uncredited) |
1943 | Best Foot Forward | Col. Harkrider |
1943 | Swing Fever | Dan Conlon |
1943 | Dixie Dugan | Editor |
1942 | Tales of Manhattan | Judge |
1942 | Tales of Manhattan | Judge Tom Barnes (Robinson sequence) |
1942 | Ride 'Em Cowboy | Ace Anderson |
1942 | Roxie Hart | Martin S. Harrison |
1942 | Reunion in France | Martin |
1942 | Tennessee Johnson | Jefferson Davis |
1942 | The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Mr. Graham |
1942 | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Wood |
1942 | Time to Kill | Alexander Morny |
1942 | The Omaha Trail | Henchman Job |
1941 | I Wake Up Screaming | Assistant District Attorney |
1941 | This Woman Is Mine | Roussel |
1941 | In Old Colorado | Weiler, Davidson's Foreman |
1941 | The Bandit Trail | Red Haggerty |
1941 | Doomed Caravan | Stephen Westcott |
1941 | Border Vigilantes | Dan Forbes |
1941 | The Roundup | 'Parenthesis' |
1941 | Pirates on Horseback | Ace Gibson |
1941 | Wide Open Town | Jim Stuart |
1941 | Road Agent | Big John Morgan |
1940 | Three Men from Texas | Bruce Morgan |
1940 | The Showdown | Baron Rendor |
1940 | Cherokee Strip | Hawk Barrett |
1940 | Light of Western Stars | Nat Hayworth |
1940 | Buck Benny Rides Again | Second Outlaw |
1940 | Knights of the Range | Gamecock |
1937 | Rustlers' Valley | Glen Randall |
1937 | North of the Rio Grande | Henry Stoneham |
1937 | Borderland | Loco |
1937 | Hills of Old Wyoming | Andrews |
1936 | Hopalong Cassidy Returns | Blackie Felton |
1936 | Trail Dust | Tex Anderson |