Paul Langton
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Paul Langton's prolific acting career encompassed everything from '40s war films to '50s TV anthologies, but he's best remembered for his turn as wealthy widower Leslie Harrington on the influential TV soap opera "Peyton Place." Of his long stretch movies in the 1940s and '50s, his most memorable roles were that of a young Navy ensign in John Ford's World War II drama "They Were Expendab...
Biography
Paul Langton's prolific acting career encompassed everything from '40s war films to '50s TV anthologies, but he's best remembered for his turn as wealthy widower Leslie Harrington on the influential TV soap opera "Peyton Place." Of his long stretch movies in the 1940s and '50s, his most memorable roles were that of a young Navy ensign in John Ford's World War II drama "They Were Expendable," and a botanist who accidentally discovers a Yeti in "The Snow Creature." Langton transitioned to TV in the '50s, and appeared in numerous mystery series and Westerns before portraying Harrington from 1964 to 1968.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Man's Favorite Sport?
(1964)
Dime With a Halo
(1963)
Mr. Jones
4 for Texas
(1963)
Beauregard
The Big Night
(1960)
Lt. Spencer
Three Came to Kill
(1960)
Ben Scanlon
The Last Angry Man
(1959)
Jack Vickery
Invisible Invaders
(1959)
General Stone
The Cosmic Man
(1959)
Col. Mathews
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
(1958)
[Jim] Calder
Girl in the Woods
(1958)
Luke Plummer
The Incredible Shrinking Man
(1957)
Charlie Carey
Utah Blaine
(1957)
Rip Coker
Calypso Heat Wave
(1957)
Mack Adams
Chicago Confidential
(1957)
Jake Parker
Murder Is My Beat
(1955)
Ray Patrick
To Hell and Back
(1955)
Colonel Howe
The Big Knife
(1955)
Buddy Bliss
Return from the Sea
(1954)
Lt. Manley
The Snow Creature
(1954)
Frank Parrish
Big Leaguer
(1953)
Brian McLennan
Jack Slade
(1953)
Dan Traver
For You I Die
(1948)
Johnny Coulter
Fighting Back
(1948)
Nick Sanders
Trouble Preferred
(1948)
Editor Poole
A Song Is Born
(1948)
Joe
My Brother Talks to Horses
(1947)
Mr. Gillespie
Till the Clouds Roll By
(1947)
Oscar Hammerstein
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
(1947)
Tom Yeary
The Sea of Grass
(1947)
Young doctor
The Hoodlum Saint
(1946)
Burton Kinston
They Were Expendable
(1945)
Ens. "Andy" Andrews
The Hidden Eye
(1945)
Barry Gifford
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
(1945)
Captain Drake
The Thin Man Goes Home
(1945)
Tom Clayworth
Destination Tokyo
(1944)
Crew member
Gentle Annie
(1944)
Violet Goss
The Cross of Lorraine
(1944)
French soldier
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Captain [Edward J.] "Ski" York
We've Never Been Licked
(1943)
Naval officer
First Comes Courage
(1943)
Commando
Cast (Short)
Magic on a Stick
(1946)
Purity Squad
(1945)
Dark Shadows
(1944)
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