Paul Hurst

Paul Hurst

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Birthday: 
15 October 1888, Traver, Tulare County, California, USA
Birth Name: 
Paul Causey Hurst
American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films, Paul Hurst spent much of his early work in low-budget western. A native of Traver, California (in the San Joaquin Valley), Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million-acre Lux & Miller ranches that ran cattle ... Show more »
American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films, Paul Hurst spent much of his early work in low-budget western. A native of Traver, California (in the San Joaquin Valley), Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million-acre Lux & Miller ranches that ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, he became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916 Hurst was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in World War I as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect).In the early 1920s Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and in which he appeared. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stuntmen were often the highest-paid folks on the set. Within a few years he focused all of his energies into acting, however, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from "Poverty Row".Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his stocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains, cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952), knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at age 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide. Show less «

Paul Hurst's FILMOGRAPHY

Yellow Sky

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Topper Takes a Trip

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The Ox-Bow Incident

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They Drive by Night

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The Westerner

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Edison, the Man

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Gone With The Wind

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Each Dawn I Die

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It Could Happen to You

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Alexanders Ragtime Band

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In Old Chicago

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

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Star of Midnight

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Romance in Manhattan

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Island of Lost Souls

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The Thirteenth Guest

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Paul Hurst'S roles

Yankee Deserter
Yankee Deserter