Morris Ankrum
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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.
Known for
Credits
In a Lonely Place (1950)
as Lloyd Barnes
Vera Cruz (1954)
as Gen. Ramírez
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
as Judge (uncredited)
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
as J.I. 'Pop' Jones
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
as Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
as Brig. Gen. John Hanley
Desire Me (1947)
as Hector Martin
Invaders from Mars (1953)
as Col. Fielding
Apache (1954)
as Dawson
Roxie Hart (1942)
as Martin S. Harrison
The Last Command (1955)
Actor
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
as Willoughby Peavy
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
as Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
Rocketship X-M (1950)
as Dr. Ralph Fleming
Tower of London (1962)
as The Archbishop
Guns of Diablo (1964)
as Ray Macklin
The Green Years (1946)
as Dr. Galbraith
My Favorite Spy (1951)
as Gen. Frazer
Tarawa Beachhead (1958)
as Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
The Man Behind The Gun (1953)
as Bram Creegan
Chain Lightning (1950)
as Ed Bostwick
Son of Ali Baba (1952)
as Ali Baba
Borderline (1950)
as Bill Whittaker
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
as Jefferson Davis
Good News (1947)
as Dean Griswold
Lady in the Lake (1946)
as Eugene Grayson
Swing Fever (1943)
as Dan Conlon
Naked Gun (1956)
as Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
Road Agent (1941)
as Big John Morgan
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
as Grey Eagle
The Sea of Grass (1947)
as A.J. Crane
The Giant Claw (1957)
as Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957)
as Dr. Carl Jordan
We Were Strangers (1949)
as M. Seymour
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
as Inspector (uncredited)
Silver Lode (1954)
as Zachary Evans
The Harvey Girls (1946)
as Rev. Claggett
How to Make a Monster (1958)
as Police Capt. Hancock
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1941)
as Ace Anderson
Fall Guy (1945)
as District Attorney (uncredited)
The Roundup (1941)
as 'Parenthesis'
Flight Nurse (1953)
as Interrogation Officer
Reunion in France (1942)
as Martin
Tennessee's Partner (1955)
as Judge Parker
Beginning of the End (1957)
as Gen. John Hanson
Fighting Back (1948)
as Robert J. Higby
Mutiny (1952)
as Capt. Radford
Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
as Red Cloud
Colorado Territory (1949)
as United States Marshal
The Raiders (1952)
as Thomas Ainsworth
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
as Washington Press Correspondent
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
as President Ulysses S. Grant
High Wall (1947)
as Dr. Stanley Griffin
Courage of Lassie (1946)
as Farmer Crews
Along the Great Divide (1951)
as Ed Roden
Flight to Mars (1951)
as Ikron
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
as Dr. Jonathan Eggert
Kronos (1957)
as Dr. Albert Stern
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Judge
Purity Squad (1945)
as Dr. Adams (uncredited)
Hiawatha (1952)
as Iagoo
Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
as Magistrate (uncredited)
Red Planet Mars (1952)
as Secretary of Defense Sparks
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
as Ed Scofield
Phantoms, Inc. (1945)
as Narrator (voice)
Let's Face It (1943)
as Man in Sun Shell Cafe
The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
as Bo Slauter
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
as Assistant District Attorney
Fort Osage (1952)
as Arthur Pickett
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
The Bandit Trail (1941)
as Red Haggerty
Southwest Passage (1954)
as Dr. Stanton
Time to Kill (1942)
as Alexander Morny
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
as Eugene Deane
The Heavenly Body (1944)
as Dr. Green
Souvenirs of Death (1948)
as Gangster (uncredited)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
as Sheriff
Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
as Narrator (unconfirmed)
Trail Dust (1936)
as Tex Anderson
Dixie Dugan (1943)
as Editor
Main Street Today (1944)
as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
as Wood
The Lion Hunters (1951)
as Tom Forbes
Walk the Proud Land (1956)
as Gen. Wade
Best Foot Forward (1943)
as Col. Harkrider
The Omaha Trail (1942)
as Henchman Job
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
as Sea Captain
The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
as Dr. Wilson
Hills of Old Wyoming (1937)
as Andrews
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Alexander Prince
Adventure (1945)
as Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
Drums Across the River (1954)
as Chief Ouray
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
as Jim Whitehead
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
as Hugh Wagner
Short Grass (1950)
as Hal Fenton
The Showdown (1940)
as Baron Rendor
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
as Fowles
Giant from the Unknown (1958)
as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
Meet the People (1944)
as Monte Rowland
Fort Vengeance (1953)
as Chief Crowfoot
Arena (1953)
as Bucky Hillberry
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
as Mr. Graham
The Power of the Resurrection (1958)
as Annas
I Beheld His Glory (1953)
as Peter
Three Young Texans (1954)
as Jeff Blair
Badman's Country (1958)
as Mayor Coleman
Because of You (1952)
as Dr. Travis
Crashout (1955)
as Head Guard
The Steel Cage (1954)
as Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
as Sheriff Jackson
The Outlaw Stallion (1954)
as Sheriff
When Gangland Strikes (1956)
as Leo Fantzler
Wide Open Town (1941)
as Jim Stuart
Drango (1957)
as Henry Calder
The Light of Western Stars (1940)
as Nat Hayworth
Hell's Crossroads (1957)
as Wheeler
Rationing (1944)
as Morgan
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come (1961)
as Gen. Lew Wallace
The Hidden Eye (1945)
as Ferris (henchman)
Omar Khayyam (1957)
as Sharain's Father
This Woman Is Mine (1941)
as Roussel
North of the Rio Grande (1937)
as Henry Stoneham
Borderland (1937)
as Loco
Cynthia (1947)
as Mr. Phillips, Principal
Merton of the Movies (1947)
as Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
Sky Commando (1953)
as Gen. W.R. Combs
Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956)
as Doc Phillips
Quincannon, Frontier Scout (1956)
as Col. Harry Conover
In Old Colorado (1941)
as Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
Three Men from Texas (1940)
as Bruce Morgan
Dark Shadows (1944)
as Lt. Pat McKay
Doomed Caravan (1941)
as Stephen Westcott
Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
as Mr. Jones
Devil's Canyon (1953)
as Ed
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story (1955)
as Azar the Shepherd
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
as Col. Demas (uncredited)
For the Love of Mary (1948)
as Adm. Walton
Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
as Second Outlaw
Fighting Coast Guard (1951)
as Navy Captain
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
as Alec Veeder
The Desperados Are in Town (1956)
as Mr. Rutherford
Return from Nowhere (1944)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
as Blackie Felton
The Fabulous Fraud (1948)
as Blind Girl's Father
No Man's Woman (1955)
as Capt. Hostedder
Little Mister Jim (1947)
as Col. W.I. Starwell
Cherokee Strip (1940)
as Hawk Barrett
A Star Shall Rise (1952)
as King Herod
Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
as Capt. Davis
Mexican Manhunt (1953)
as Tip Morgan
Pirates on Horseback (1941)
as Ace Gibson
Young and Wild (1958)
as Police Capt. Egan
The Silver Star (1955)
as Charlie Childress
Gentle Annie (1944)
as Deputy Gansby
Frontier Gun (1958)
as Andrew Barton
Knights of the Range (1940)
as Gamecock
Down Liberty Road (1957)
as Fred Schroder
Rustlers' Valley (1937)
as Glen Randall
Border Vigilantes (1941)
as Dan Forbes