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