Paul Fix

Gender: Male
Born: 13th March 1901
Died: 14th October 1983
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Rifleman
Movies: El Dorado, Blood Alley, The Outrage, Night of the Lepus, Tall in the Saddle, The Ghost Breakers, Young Billy Young, In Old Oklahoma, An Eye for an Eye, The Desert Trail, Welcome to Hard Times, Somewhere in Sonora, Bridge of Sighs, Wanda Nevada, LaFayette Escadrille, Force of Evil, Nevada Smith, The Sphinx, Yellowstone, The World Accuses, Flame of Barbary Coast, Lucky Star, The Bad Seed, The Undefeated, Bad Girl, Night Passage, Dr. Cyclops, Jet Pilot, Shenandoah, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Valley of Wanted Men, Ride Beyond Vengeance, The Sea Chase, Giant, Zabriskie Point, After the Thin Man, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Hitler - Dead or Alive, Hondo, Back to Bataan, Winchester '73, Fargo Express, Heritage of the Desert, Red River, Wake of the Red Witch, Tycoon, Bulldog Courage, Man in the Vault, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grayeagle, Stagecoach to Fury, Warpath, Hellfire, Top of the World, Woman in Distress, Highways by Night, When G-Men Step In, The Plot Thickens, The Good Bad Girl, Smashing the Rackets, The Girl and the Gambler

Paul Fix (March 13, 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York – October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925 to 1981. In the 1950s, Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance alongside Chuck Connors in The Rifleman.

A veteran of the United States Navy during World War I, Fix became an incredibly busy character actor who got his start in local productions around his New York home. By the 1920s he had moved to Hollywood and performed in the first of almost 350 movie and television appearances. In the 1930s, he became friends with John Wayne, coaching him acting, and eventually appearing as a featured player in about twenty-seven of his films.

Fix worked in early films such as Lucky Star (1929) and Ladies Love Brutes (1930), and became a regular performer for the film's director, Frank Borzage, on a further eight occasions. Fix later appeared as Richard Bravo in the 1950s cult classic, The Bad Seed (1955), The Sea Chase (1955) playing Heinz the cook, and in George Stevens' Giant

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