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Paul Hurst was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Hurst appeared in such films as "The Railroad Raiders" (1917), "Lightning Bryce" (1919) and "The Outlaw Express" (1926). He also appeared in "The Red Raiders" (1927) with Ken Maynard. His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "The Line-Up" (1934), the mystery "Take the Sta...

Filmography

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Rider of the Law (1927)

The Range Raiders (1927)

Battling Kid (1926)

Shadows of Chinatown (1926)

Roaring Road (1926)

Fighting Ranger (1926)

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Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Laughing Jackass

Alexander's Ragtime Band -- (Movie Clip) Blue Skies

Biography

Paul Hurst was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Hurst appeared in such films as "The Railroad Raiders" (1917), "Lightning Bryce" (1919) and "The Outlaw Express" (1926). He also appeared in "The Red Raiders" (1927) with Ken Maynard. His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "The Line-Up" (1934), the mystery "Take the Stand" (1934) with Jack LaRue and the mystery "Shadow of Doubt" (1935) with Ricardo Cortez. He also appeared in the romance "The Gay Deception" (1935) with Francis Lederer. Nearing the end of his career, he continued to act in the comedy "The Jones Family in Quick Millions" (1939) with Jed Prouty, "Edison, the Man" (1940) with Spencer Tracy and "The Westerner" (1940). He also appeared in the George Raft drama "They Drive By Night" (1940) and the James Cagney comedy "Torrid Zone" (1940). Hurst more recently acted in the Charles Winninger dramedy "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953). Hurst passed away in February 1953 at the age of 65.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Rider of the Law (1927)

The Range Raiders (1927)

Battling Kid (1926)

Shadows of Chinatown (1926)

Roaring Road (1926)

Fighting Ranger (1926)

Son of a Gun (1926)

The Midnight Message (1926)

Law of the Snow Country (1926)

The Haunted Range (1926)

Blue Streak O'Neil (1926)

The Gold Hunters (1925)

The Demon Rider (1925)

A Western Engagement (1925)

The Rattler (1925)

The Son of Sontag (1925)

Battling Bunyon (1925)

The Fighting Cub (1925)

You're Fired (1925)

Branded a Bandit (1924)

The Courageous Coward (1924)

The Passing of Wolf MacLean (1924)

Golden Silence (1923)

The Crow's Nest (1922)

The Kingfisher's Roost (1922)

Table Top Ranch (1922)

The Heart of a Texan (1922)

Black Sheep (1921)

Shadows of the West (1921)

The Iron Test (1919)

The Tiger's Trail (1919)

Lightning Bryce (1919)

A Woman in the Web (1918)

Lass of the Lumberlands (1916)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Sgt. Jimmy Bagby

Big Jim McLain (1952)

Toughest Man in Arizona (1952)

Million Dollar Pursuit (1951)

The Old Frontier (1950)

Pioneer Marshal (1950)

The Vanishing Westerner (1950)

Waldorf Worthington

The Missourians (1950)

Ranger of Cherokee Strip (1949)

Prince of the Plains (1949)

Sheriff Hank Hartley

Law of the Golden West (1949)

San Antone Ambush (1949)

Sgt. Happy Daniels

South of Rio (1949)

Andrew Jackson Weems

Outcasts of the Trail (1949)

Yellow Sky (1948)

Who Killed Doc Robbin (1948)

The Arizona Ranger (1948)

Son of God's Country (1948)

California Firebrand (1948)

Heart of Virginia (1948)

Madonna of the Desert (1948)

Gun Smugglers (1948)

Sgt. Hasty Jones

On Our Merry Way (1948)

Angel and the Badman (1947)

Frederick Carson

Under Colorado Skies (1947)

John "Lucky" Hawkins

The Virginian (1946)

Bartender in second saloon

Murder in the Music Hall (1946)

In Old Sacramento (1946)

Plainsman and the Lady (1946)

Death Valley (1946)

Scared Stiff (1945)

Steppin' in Society (1945)

Aloysius "Cookie" Blaine

The Dolly Sisters (1945)

The Big Show-Off (1945)

The Devil, also known as Herbert Trafagen

Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Penthouse Rhythm (1945)

Her Lucky Night (1945)

Nob Hill (1945)

Summer Storm (1944)

The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)

Sheriff Slim Carson

Something for the Boys (1944)

Girl Rush (1944)

Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

Young and Willing (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Coney Island (1943)

Hi' Ya, Chum (1943)

Archie Billings

Calaboose (1943)

Jack London (1943)

"Lucky Luke" Lanigan

The Sky's the Limit (1943)

Stevedore foreman

December 7th (1943)

Night in New Orleans (1942)

Sergeant Riordan

Dudes Are Pretty People (1942)

Sundown Jim (1942)

Pardon My Stripes (1942)

Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)

The Parson of Panamint (1941)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

Michael O'Connor

Petticoat Politics (1941)

Virginia (1941)

Caught in the Draft (1941)

This Woman Is Mine (1941)

2nd Mate Mumford

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)

Men Against the Sky (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

The Westerner (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Bowery Boy (1940)

Blubber Mullins

South to Karanga (1940)

Edison, the Man (1940)

Star Dust (1940)

Torrid Zone (1940)

The Jones Family in Quick Millions (1939)

On Your Toes (1939)

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Topper Takes a Trip (1939)

Cafe Society (1939)

It Could Happen to You (1939)

The Kid from Kokomo (1939)

Remember? (1939)

Bad Lands (1939)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Broadway Serenade (1939)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

A Yankee deserter

My Lucky Star (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)

No Time to Marry (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Bill [Mulligan]

A. Adolphus Heyman

Island in the Sky (1938)

Secrets of a Nurse (1938)

"Slice" Cavanaugh

Prison Break (1938)

The Last Express (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)

Angel's Holiday (1937)

Sergeant Murphy

Fifty Roads to Town (1937)

Second Honeymoon (1937)

We Who Are About to Die (1937)

She's No Lady (1937)

You Can't Beat Love (1937)

Trouble in Morocco (1937)

The Lady Fights Back (1937)

The Legion of Missing Men (1937)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

Super-Sleuth (1937)

Song of the City (1937)

This Is My Affair (1937)

Slave Ship (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

45 Fathers (1937)

It Had to Happen (1936)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

To Mary--With Love (1936)

Riffraff (1936)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

American detective

The Blackmailer (1936)

Inspector Killian

I'd Give My Life (1936)

North of Nome (1936)

Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)

The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

Mississippi (1935)

Calm Yourself (1935)

Star of Midnight (1935)

Public Hero No. 1 (1935)

Wilderness Mail (1935)

Shadow of Doubt (1935)

Lt. [Jack] Sackville

The Gay Deception (1935)

Maybe It's Love (1935)

The Daring Young Man (1935)

Head prison guard

Carnival (1935)

Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)

Among the Missing (1934)

Midnight Alibi (1934)

Take the Stand (1934)

Tomorrow's Youth (1934)

The Line Up (1934)

A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Sing and Like It (1934)

Tied-up kidnapper

Saturday's Millions (1933)

Terror Aboard (1933)

Hold Your Man (1933)

Aubrey Mitchell

Day of Reckoning (1933)

Tugboat Annie (1933)

The Big Race (1933)

The Sphinx (1933)

Terrence Aloysius Hogan

Queen Christina (1933)

The Women in His Life (1933)

State's Attorney (1932)

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)

Men Are Such Fools (1932)

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

[Capt.] Donahue

My Pal the King (1932)

Panama Flo (1932)

The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

The Big Stampede (1932)

The Secret Witness (1931)

Public Defender (1931)

Detective Whip Fogarty

Sweepstakes (1931)

The Secret Six (1931)

[Nick] Mizoski, the gouger

The Single Sin (1931)

Bad Company (1931)

Hot Curves (1930)

Officer O'Brien (1930)

The Runaway Bride (1930)

The Swellhead (1930)

Shadow of the Law (1930)

Lucky Larkin (1930)

The Third Alarm (1930)

Paradise Island (1930)

Mountain Justice (1930)

Borrowed Wives (1930)

Tide of Empire (1929)

Oh, Yeah (1929)

His First Command (1929)

Sergeant Westbrook

The Racketeer (1929)

The Rainbow (1929)

The California Mail (1929)

The Lawless Legion (1929)

Sailor's Holiday (1929)

The Cossacks (1928)

Sitchi [or Zarka]

The Overland Stage (1927)

Hell A-Poppin' Casey

The Devil's Saddle (1927)

The Man From Hardpan (1927)

The Valley of the Giants (1927)

The Red Raiders (1927)

Sergeant Murphy

"Slugger" McGlue

The Outlaw Express (1926)

The High Hand (1926)

Lightning Bryce (1919)

With Hoops of Steel (1918)

Smashing Through (1918)

Rimrock Jones (1918)

The Railroad Raiders (1917)

The Diamond Runners (1916)

Medicine Bend (1916)

Murray Sinclair

Lass of the Lumberlands (1916)

Judith of the Cumberlands (1916)

Blatchley Turrentine

The Manager of the B. and A. (1916)

Whispering Smith (1916)

Murray Sinclair

The Pitfall (1915)

The Invisible Power (1914)

Shannon of the Sixth (1914)

Captain Arlington

Writer (Feature Film)

Branded a Bandit (1924)

Branded a Bandit (1924)

Table Top Ranch (1922)

Table Top Ranch (1922)

The Kingfisher's Roost (1922)

Rangeland (1922)

The Heart of a Texan (1922)

The Kingfisher's Roost (1922)

Cast (Short)

The Ballad of Paducah Jail (1934)

Life Events

Videos

Island Of Lost Souls (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Laughing Jackass Paul Hurst as Donahue has the unlucky assignment of escorting Ruth (Leila Hyams), come to find her fiancè Parker (Richard Arlen), on the south sea island where he’s been taken in by mad Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton), knowing nothing as yet about his freaky man-beasts and “bio-anthropological research,” in Island Of Lost Souls, 1932.

Alexander's Ragtime Band -- (Movie Clip) Blue Skies In an all-Irving Berlin musical, the composer's two favorite singers (Ethel Merman as "Jerry", Alice Faye as "Stella," having just met) take turns with "Blue Skies," in Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1938.

In Old Chicago (1938) -- (Movie Clip) It Might Go To His Head Lucky for the O’Leary brothers (Don Ameche as prosecutor Jack, Tyrone Power as political boss Dion) as it turns out the witness is married to the accused, eliminating their conflict and allowing a cordial introduction to Dion’s gal Belle (Alice Faye), in the disaster-epic In Old Chicago, 1938.

They Drive By Night -- (Movie Clip) Open, Apples Warner Bros. drama in the credits and star George Raft (as "Joe") fleecing station-man Pete (Paul Hurst) in the opening to director Raoul Walsh's wildcat trucking drama They Drive By Night, 1940, with Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan and Ida Lupino.

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