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