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)
The Long Gray Line
as Captain John J. Pershing
(1955)
Smoke Signal
as Sergeant Miles
(1955)
White Feather
as Commissioner Trenton
(1955)
The Private War of Major Benson
as Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
(1954)
The Siege at Red River
as Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman
(1954)
Black Tuesday
as Father Slocum
(1953)
Pickup on South Street
as Detective Winoki
(1953)
Invaders from Mars
as Army Capt. Roth
(1953)
Arrowhead
as Sandy MacKinnon
(1953)
The Sun Shines Bright
as Horace K. Maydew
(1953)
Second Chance
as Edward Dawson (uncredited)
(1952)
The Savage
as Cpl. Martin
(1952)
The Atomic City
as Insp. Harold Mann
(1952)
(1951)
Flying Leathernecks
as Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited)
(1951)
Operation Pacific
as Ground Control Officer (uncredited)
(1951)
The Racket
as Member of Craig's Team (uncredited)
(1951)
Roadblock
as Ray Egan
(1950)
No Man of Her Own
as Plainclothesman
(1950)
Branded
as Dawson
(1950)
Snow Dog
as Dr. F. J. McKenzie
(1950)
The Fireball
as Jeff Davis
(1949)
The Judge
as Martin Strang
(1949)
The Green Promise
as Rev. Benton
(1949)
Sky Dragon
as Pilot Tim Norton
(1949)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Abe Jones
(1948)
Train to Alcatraz
as Bart Kanin
(1947)
Buck Privates Come Home
as Announcer
(1947)
Killer McCoy
as Henchman (uncredited)
(1947)
Michigan Kid
as Lanny Slade
(1947)
Heading for Heaven
as Elwood Harding
(1947)
Killer Dill
as Maboose
(1946)
Little Giant
as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
(1946)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
as Mr. Moore
(1946)
Her Adventurous Night
as Cop #1
(1946)
Smooth as Silk
as John Kimble (District Attorney)
(1946)
Little Miss Big
as Father Lennergan
(1946)
The Scarlet Horseman
as Narrator
(1946)
Inside Job
as District Attorney Sutton
(1946)
Danger Woman
as Gerald King
(1946)
Strange Conquest
as Bert Morrow
(1945)
Strange Confession
as Stevens
(1945)
She Gets Her Man
as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker
(1945)
The Frozen Ghost
as George Keene
(1945)
The Daltons Ride Again
as Parker W. Graham
(1945)
Swing Out, Sister
as Tim Colby
(1945)
The Master Key
as Agent Tom Brant
(1945)
I'll Remember April
as Willie Winchester
(1945)
Enemy Bacteria
as Doctor
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Fitzgerald
(1945)
The Beautiful Cheat
as Lucius Haven
(1945)
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
as Brad Taggart
(1944)
Phantom Lady
as District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
(1944)
Jungle Woman
as Fred Mason
(1944)
Twilight on the Prairie
as Gainsworth
(1944)
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Bill Eaton
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Gib Dickson
(1944)
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as Jim Hudson
(1944)
(1944)
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Jim Bradley
(1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Capt. Pat Vickery
(1943)
Gung Ho!
as Cmdr. Blake
(1943)
Destroyer
as Radioman (uncredited)
(1943)
The Mad Ghoul
as Sgt. Macklin
(1943)
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Duke Redman
(1943)
Get Going
as Mr. Tuttle
(1943)
Corvette K-225
as Canadian Captain
(1943)
Captive Wild Woman
as Fred Mason
(1943)
You Can't Beat the Law
as Frank Sanders
(1943)
Silent Witness
as Racketeer Joe Manson
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Lieutenant Farragut
(1942)
Invisible Agent
as German Sergeant (uncredited)
(1942)
Eyes in the Night
as Detective Pete (Uncredited)
(1942)
Rubber Racketeers
as Angel
(1942)
(1942)
Pacific Rendezvous
as Hotel Desk Clerk
(1941)
The Great Train Robbery
as Duke Logan
(1941)
No Hands on the Clock
as FBI Agent
(1941)
Death Valley Outlaws
as Jeff
(1941)
The Phantom Cowboy
as Stan Borden
(1940)
Colorado
as Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
(1940)
Lillian Russell
as Jack - Reporter
(1940)
Johnny Apollo
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1940)
American Portrait
as George
(1940)
Public Deb No. 1
as Reporter
(1940)
An Angel from Texas
as 'Pooch' Davis
(1940)
Enemy Agent
as Meeker
(1940)
Chasing Trouble
as Pat Callahan
(1940)
Give Us Wings
as Tex Austin
(1940)
Framed
as Mathew Mattison
(1940)
The Great Plane Robbery
as Krebber
(1940)
Buyer Beware
as Fredericks (uncredited)
(1939)
Made for Each Other
as Newark Official (uncredited)
(1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
(1939)
Tail Spin
as Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
(1939)
Blind Alley
as Nick
(1939)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Head Busboy (uncredited)
(1939)
Blackwell's Island
as Max (uncredited)
(1939)
Society Smugglers
as Peter Garfield
(1939)
King of the Turf
as Taylor
(1939)
Stunt Pilot
as 'Skeeter' Milligan
(1939)
Sky Patrol
as Skeeter Milligan
(1939)
Tropic Fury
as Thomas E. Snell
(1939)
Danger Flight
as Skeeter
(1939)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Joe Felton
(1939)
Crashing Thru
as Delos Harrington
(1939)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Krebs - 2d hurt worker
(1939)
The Big Guy
as Publicity man (uncredited)
(1939)
Mystery Plane
as Skeeter Milligan
(1939)
Fighting Mad
as Cardigan
(1938)
Port of Missing Girls
as Jim Benton
(1938)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Burns
(1938)
California Frontier
as Mal Halstead
(1938)
Wives Under Suspicion
as Kirk
(1938)
Sinners in Paradise
as T.L. Honeyman
(1938)
Paroled from the Big House
as Commissioner Downey
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Detective (Uncredited)
(1937)
Wings Over Honolulu
as Telephone Operator
(1937)
Youth on Parole
as Ratty
(1937)
They Gave Him a Gun
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
(1937)
Swing It Professor
as Lou Morgan
(1937)
The 13th Man
as Jimmy Moran
(1937)
The Wildcatter
as Ed
(1937)
Blazing Barriers
as Joe Waters
(1937)
A Doctor's Diary
as Fred Clark
(1937)
Atlantic Flight
as Henry Wadsworth Schultz
(1937)
Federal Bullets
as Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
(1936)
The Accusing Finger
as Convict
(1936)
Two in a Crowd
as Kennedy (uncredited)
(1936)
The Princess Comes Across
as American Reporter (uncredited)
(1936)
Murder with Pictures
as Operator (uncredited)
(1936)
The Three Mesquiteers
as John
(1936)
China Clipper
as Radio Operator
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Carter's Aide (uncredited)
(1935)
Cheers of the Crowd
as Reporter (uncredited)