Milburn Stone
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-07-05
Day of Death
1980-06-12 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Burrton, Kansas, USA
Milburn Stone
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke.
Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet.
His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke.
In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934).
In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong.
Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials.
In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen.
In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.
In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke.
For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
Known For
Acting
(2010)
(1979)
(1957)
Drango
as Col. Bracken
(1955)
Smoke Signal
as Sergeant Miles
(1955)
The Long Gray Line
as Captain John J. Pershing
(1955)
The Private War of Major Benson
as Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
(1955)
White Feather
as Commissioner Trenton
(1954)
The Siege at Red River
as Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman
(1954)
Black Tuesday
as Father Slocum
(1953)
The Sun Shines Bright
as Horace K. Maydew
(1953)
Pickup on South Street
as Detective Winoki
(1953)
Second Chance
as Edward Dawson (uncredited)
(1953)
Arrowhead
as Sandy MacKinnon
(1953)
Invaders from Mars
as Army Capt. Roth
(1952)
The Atomic City
as Insp. Harold Mann
(1952)
The Savage
as Cpl. Martin
(1952)
(1951)
Operation Pacific
as Ground Control Officer (uncredited)
(1951)
The Racket
as Member of Craig's Team (uncredited)
(1951)
Flying Leathernecks
as Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited)
(1951)
Roadblock
as Ray Egan
(1950)
Branded
as Dawson
(1950)
The Fireball
as Jeff Davis
(1950)
Snow Dog
as Dr. F. J. McKenzie
(1950)
No Man of Her Own
as Plainclothesman
(1949)
The Green Promise
as Rev. Benton
(1949)
Sky Dragon
as Pilot Tim Norton
(1949)
The Judge
as Martin Strang
(1949)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Abe Jones
(1948)
Train to Alcatraz
as Bart Kanin
(1947)
Killer McCoy
as Henchman (uncredited)
(1947)
Heading for Heaven
as Elwood Harding
(1947)
Buck Privates Come Home
as Announcer
(1947)
Michigan Kid
as Lanny Slade
(1947)
Killer Dill
as Maboose
(1946)
The Scarlet Horseman
as Narrator
(1946)
Smooth as Silk
as John Kimble (District Attorney)
(1946)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
as Mr. Moore
(1946)
Little Miss Big
as Father Lennergan
(1946)
Strange Conquest
as Bert Morrow
(1946)
Little Giant
as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
(1946)
Her Adventurous Night
as Cop #1
(1946)
Danger Woman
as Gerald King
(1946)
Inside Job
as District Attorney Sutton
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Fitzgerald
(1945)
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
as Brad Taggart
(1945)
Enemy Bacteria
as Doctor
(1945)
Strange Confession
as Stevens
(1945)
The Master Key
as Agent Tom Brant
(1945)
I'll Remember April
as Willie Winchester
(1945)
Swing Out, Sister
as Tim Colby
(1945)
The Frozen Ghost
as George Keene
(1945)
The Daltons Ride Again
as Parker W. Graham
(1945)
The Beautiful Cheat
as Lucius Haven
(1945)
She Gets Her Man
as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker
(1944)
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as Jim Hudson
(1944)
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Jim Bradley
(1944)
Twilight on the Prairie
as Gainsworth
(1944)
Jungle Woman
as Fred Mason
(1944)
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Bill Eaton
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Gib Dickson
(1944)
Phantom Lady
as District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
(1944)
(1943)
Corvette K-225
as Canadian Captain
(1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Capt. Pat Vickery
(1943)
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Duke Redman
(1943)
Get Going
as Mr. Tuttle
(1943)
Destroyer
as Radioman (uncredited)
(1943)
Silent Witness
as Racketeer Joe Manson
(1943)
Gung Ho!
as Cmdr. Blake
(1943)
The Mad Ghoul
as Sgt. Macklin
(1943)
You Can't Beat the Law
as Frank Sanders
(1943)
Captive Wild Woman
as Fred Mason
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Lieutenant Farragut
(1942)
(1942)
Eyes in the Night
as Detective Pete (Uncredited)
(1942)
Invisible Agent
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
(1942)
Pacific Rendezvous
as Hotel Desk Clerk
(1942)
Rubber Racketeers
as Angel
(1941)
No Hands on the Clock
as FBI Agent
(1941)
The Great Train Robbery
as Duke Logan
(1941)
The Phantom Cowboy
as Stan Borden
(1941)
Death Valley Outlaws
as Jeff
(1940)
The Great Plane Robbery
as Krebber
(1940)
Framed
as Mathew Mattison
(1940)
Colorado
as Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
(1940)
Public Deb No. 1
as Reporter
(1940)
American Portrait
as George
(1940)
Give Us Wings
as Tex Austin
(1940)
Johnny Apollo
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1940)
An Angel from Texas
as 'Pooch' Davis
(1940)
Buyer Beware
as Fredericks (uncredited)
(1940)
Chasing Trouble
as Pat Callahan
(1940)
Lillian Russell
as Jack - Reporter
(1940)
Enemy Agent
as Meeker
(1939)
Crashing Thru
as Delos Harrington
(1939)
Blind Alley
as Nick
(1939)
Stunt Pilot
as 'Skeeter' Milligan
(1939)
Mystery Plane
as Skeeter Milligan
(1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
(1939)
Blackwell's Island
as Max (uncredited)
(1939)
King of the Turf
as Taylor
(1939)
Tail Spin
as Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
(1939)
Society Smugglers
as Peter Garfield
(1939)
Made for Each Other
as Newark Official (uncredited)
(1939)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Krebs - 2d hurt worker
(1939)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Joe Felton
(1939)
The Big Guy
as Publicity man (uncredited)
(1939)
Fighting Mad
as Cardigan
(1939)
Danger Flight
as Skeeter
(1939)
Tropic Fury
as Thomas E. Snell
(1939)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Head Busboy (uncredited)
(1939)
Sky Patrol
as Skeeter Milligan
(1938)
Paroled from the Big House
as Commissioner Downey
(1938)
California Frontier
as Mal Halstead
(1938)
Sinners in Paradise
as T.L. Honeyman
(1938)
Port of Missing Girls
as Jim Benton
(1938)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Burns
(1938)
Wives Under Suspicion
as Kirk
(1937)
Wings Over Honolulu
as Telephone Operator
(1937)
Youth on Parole
as Ratty
(1937)
Swing It Professor
as Lou Morgan
(1937)
Blazing Barriers
as Joe Waters
(1937)
The Wildcatter
as Ed
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Detective (Uncredited)
(1937)
A Doctor's Diary
as Fred Clark
(1937)
Federal Bullets
as Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
(1937)
The 13th Man
as Jimmy Moran
(1937)
They Gave Him a Gun
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
(1937)
Atlantic Flight
as Henry Wadsworth Schultz
(1936)
Two in a Crowd
as Kennedy (uncredited)
(1936)
The Accusing Finger
as Convict
(1936)
The Princess Comes Across
as American Reporter (uncredited)
(1936)
Murder with Pictures
as Operator (uncredited)
(1936)
China Clipper
as Radio Operator
(1936)
The Three Mesquiteers
as John
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Carter's Aide (uncredited)
(1935)
Cheers of the Crowd
as Reporter (uncredited)