9.1
9.1
Dark Shadows
1944
as Lt. Pat McKay
Morris Ankrum
Acting
Born:August 28, 1896
Died:September 2, 1964(aged 68)
Birthplace:Danville, Illinois, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Southern California, USC Gould School of Law
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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.
Filmography (154 movies)
8.0
8.0
The Roundup
1941
as 'Parenthesis'
8.0
8.0
Fall Guy
1945
as District Attorney (uncredited)
7.6
7.6
In a Lonely Place
1950
as Lloyd Barnes
7.6
7.6
The Hidden Eye
1945
as Ferris (henchman)
7.3
7.3
Along the Great Divide
1951
as Ed Roden
7.1
7.1
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Willoughby Peavy
7.0
7.0
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
as Judge (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
The Omaha Trail
1942
as Henchman Job
7.0
7.0
Colorado Territory
1949
as United States Marshal
7.0
7.0
Purity Squad
1945
as Dr. Adams (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
as Jim Whitehead
6.9
6.9
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
as Assistant District Attorney
6.9
6.9
Roxie Hart
1942
as Martin S. Harrison
6.8
6.8
Merton of the Movies
1947
as Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
6.8
6.8
The Fountainhead
1949
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Inspector (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
The Cockeyed Miracle
1946
as Dr. Wilson
6.7
6.7
Crashout
1955
as Head Guard
6.7
6.7
Duel on the Mississippi
1955
as Magistrate (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
as Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
Vera Cruz
1954
as Gen. Ramírez
6.5
6.5
Souvenirs of Death
1948
as Gangster (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951
as Hugh Wagner
6.5
6.5
The Harvey Girls
1946
as Rev. Claggett
6.5
6.5
The Bandit Trail
1941
as Red Haggerty
6.5
6.5
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
as Navy Captain
6.4
6.4
The Eternal Sea
1955
as Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
6.4
6.4
The Last Command
1955
6.4
6.4
The Mighty McGurk
1947
as Fowles
6.4
6.4
Reunion in France
1942
as Martin
6.3
6.3
Tennessee's Partner
1955
as Judge Parker
6.3
6.3
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
as Mr. Jones
6.3
6.3
The Cross of Lorraine
1943
as Col. Demas (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Chain Lightning
1950
as Ed Bostwick
6.3
6.3
High Wall
1947
as Dr. Stanley Griffin
6.2
6.2
Good News
1947
as Dean Griswold
6.2
6.2
Adventure
1945
as Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Fort Vengeance
1953
as Chief Crowfoot
6.2
6.2
Main Street Today
1944
as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
6.1
6.1
Naked Gun
1956
as Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
6.1
6.1
Silver Lode
1954
as Zachary Evans
6.1
6.1
Walk the Proud Land
1956
as Gen. Wade
6.1
6.1
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
as Bo Slauter
6.1
6.1
Tennessee Johnson
1942
as Jefferson Davis
6.1
6.1
Apache
1954
as Dawson
6.1
6.1
The Sea of Grass
1947
as A.J. Crane
6.1
6.1
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956
as Brig. Gen. John Hanley
6.0
6.0
Tower of London
1962
as The Archbishop
6.0
6.0
Frontier Gun
1958
as Andrew Barton
6.0
6.0
My Favorite Spy
1951
as Gen. Frazer
6.0
6.0
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
as Blackie Felton
6.0
6.0
Tarawa Beachhead
1958
as Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Fort Osage
1952
as Arthur Pickett
6.0
6.0
Short Grass
1950
as Hal Fenton
6.0
6.0
Fighting Back
1948
as Robert J. Higby
6.0
6.0
Best Foot Forward
1943
as Col. Harkrider
6.0
6.0
Fury at Gunsight Pass
1956
as Doc Phillips
6.0
6.0
We Were Strangers
1949
as M. Seymour
6.0
6.0
Lady in the Lake
1946
as Eugene Grayson
5.9
5.9
Invaders from Mars
1953
as Col. Fielding
5.9
5.9
Cynthia
1947
as Mr. Phillips, Principal
5.9
5.9
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942
as Ace Anderson
5.9
5.9
Southside 1-1000
1950
as Eugene Deane
5.8
5.8
In Old Colorado
1941
as Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
5.8
5.8
Mexican Manhunt
1953
as Tip Morgan
5.8
5.8
For the Love of Mary
1948
as Adm. Walton
5.7
5.7
Courage of Lassie
1946
as Farmer Crews
5.7
5.7
The Raiders
1952
as Thomas Ainsworth
5.7
5.7
The Man Behind The Gun
1953
as Bram Creegan
5.7
5.7
Because of You
1952
as Dr. Travis
5.7
5.7
The Moonlighter
1953
as Alexander Prince
5.7
5.7
Desire Me
1947
as Hector Martin
5.7
5.7
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
as Mr. Graham
5.6
5.6
Drums Across the River
1954
as Chief Ouray
5.6
5.6
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
as J.I. 'Pop' Jones
5.6
5.6
Chief Crazy Horse
1955
as Red Cloud
5.6
5.6
How to Make a Monster
1958
as Police Capt. Hancock
5.6
5.6
Kronos
1957
as Dr. Albert Stern
5.6
5.6
Three Men from Texas
1940
as Bruce Morgan
5.5
5.5
Borderline
1950
as Bill Whittaker
5.5
5.5
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
as Grey Eagle
5.5
5.5
Flight Nurse
1953
as Interrogation Officer
5.5
5.5
Time to Kill
1942
as Alexander Morny
5.5
5.5
North of the Rio Grande
1937
as Henry Stoneham
5.5
5.5
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
as Narrator (voice)
5.5
5.5
Sky Commando
1953
as Gen. W.R. Combs
5.4
5.4
Son of Ali Baba
1952
as Ali Baba
5.4
5.4
Drango
1957
as Henry Calder
5.4
5.4
Southwest Passage
1954
as Dr. Stanton
5.4
5.4
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958
as Narrator (unconfirmed)
5.4
5.4
Hell's Crossroads
1957
as Wheeler
5.4
5.4
Badman's Country
1958
as Mayor Coleman
5.4
5.4
Zombies of Mora Tau
1957
as Dr. Jonathan Eggert
5.3
5.3
The Heavenly Body
1944
as Dr. Green
5.3
5.3
Rustlers' Valley
1937
as Glen Randall
5.3
5.3
The Lion Hunters
1951
as Tom Forbes
5.2
5.2
Three Young Texans
1954
as Jeff Blair
5.2
5.2
Gentle Annie
1944
as Deputy Gansby
5.2
5.2
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
as Ed Scofield
5.1
5.1
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
as President Ulysses S. Grant
5.1
5.1
Flight to Mars
1951
as Ikron
5.1
5.1
Guns of Diablo
1964
as Ray Macklin
5.0
5.0
The Fabulous Fraud
1948
as Blind Girl's Father
5.0
5.0
The Showdown
1940
as Baron Rendor
5.0
5.0
Border Vigilantes
1941
as Dan Forbes
5.0
5.0
Borderland
1937
as Loco
5.0
5.0
Meet the People
1944
as Monte Rowland
5.0
5.0
The Outlaw Stallion
1954
as Sheriff
5.0
5.0
Swing Fever
1943
as Dan Conlon
5.0
5.0
Omar Khayyam
1957
as Sharain's Father
5.0
5.0
The Silver Star
1955
as Charlie Childress
5.0
5.0
Return from Nowhere
1944
as Doctor (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Dixie Dugan
1943
as Editor
4.9
4.9
Most Dangerous Man Alive
1961
as Capt. Davis
4.9
4.9
The Redhead and The Cowboy
1951
as Sheriff
4.8
4.8
The Giant Claw
1957
as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
4.8
4.8
Mutiny
1952
as Capt. Radford
4.8
4.8
Rocketship X-M
1950
as Dr. Ralph Fleming
4.7
4.7
Arena
1953
as Bucky Hillberry
4.7
4.7
Red Planet Mars
1952
as Secretary of Defense Sparks
4.7
4.7
No Man's Woman
1955
as Capt. Hostedder
4.6
4.6
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
as Alec Veeder
4.6
4.6
Devil's Canyon
1953
as Ed
4.5
4.5
Let's Face It
1943
as Man in Sun Shell Cafe
4.4
4.4
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956
as Col. Harry Conover
4.0
4.0
Giant from the Unknown
1958
as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
4.0
4.0
This Woman Is Mine
1941
as Roussel
4.0
4.0
Little Mister Jim
1947
as Col. W.I. Starwell
4.0
4.0
Cherokee Strip
1940
as Hawk Barrett
4.0
4.0
Trail Dust
1936
as Tex Anderson
3.8
3.8
Beginning of the End
1957
as Gen. John Hanson
3.6
3.6
Twilight for the Gods
1958
as Sea Captain
3.5
3.5
Doomed Caravan
1941
as Stephen Westcott
3.3
3.3
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
1961
as Gen. Lew Wallace
3.0
3.0
Pirates on Horseback
1941
as Ace Gibson
3.0
3.0
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
as Andrews
3.0
3.0
Wide Open Town
1941
as Jim Stuart
3.0
3.0
Young and Wild
1958
as Police Capt. Egan
3.0
3.0
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1957
as Dr. Carl Jordan
2.7
2.7
Rationing
1944
as Morgan
2.5
2.5
Light of Western Stars
1940
as Nat Hayworth
2.0
2.0
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
1955
as Azar the Shepherd
The Desperados Are in Town
1956
as Mr. Rutherford
The Steel Cage
1954
as Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
When Gangland Strikes
1956
as Leo Fantzler
Hiawatha
1952
as Iagoo
A Star Shall Rise
1952
as King Herod
The Power of the Resurrection
1958
as Annas
Two Guns and a Badge
1954
as Sheriff Jackson
Road Agent
1941
as Big John Morgan
I Beheld His Glory
1953
as Peter
Knights of the Range
1940
as Gamecock
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
as Second Outlaw
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