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)
White Feather
as Commissioner Trenton
(1955)
Smoke Signal
as Sergeant Miles
(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)
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)
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)
Heading for Heaven
as Elwood Harding
(1947)
Michigan Kid
as Lanny Slade
(1947)
Killer McCoy
as Henchman (uncredited)
(1947)
Killer Dill
as Maboose
(1946)
Little Giant
as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
(1946)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
as Mr. Moore
(1946)
Smooth as Silk
as John Kimble (District Attorney)
(1946)
Danger Woman
as Gerald King
(1946)
Inside Job
as District Attorney Sutton
(1946)
Little Miss Big
as Father Lennergan
(1946)
Her Adventurous Night
as Cop #1
(1946)
The Scarlet Horseman
as Narrator
(1946)
Strange Conquest
as Bert Morrow
(1945)
The Frozen Ghost
as George Keene
(1945)
Swing Out, Sister
as Tim Colby
(1945)
The Master Key
as Agent Tom Brant
(1945)
Strange Confession
as Stevens
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Fitzgerald
(1945)
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
as Brad Taggart
(1945)
The Daltons Ride Again
as Parker W. Graham
(1945)
She Gets Her Man
as 'Tommy Gun' Tucker
(1945)
I'll Remember April
as Willie Winchester
(1945)
Enemy Bacteria
as Doctor
(1945)
The Beautiful Cheat
as Lucius Haven
(1944)
Phantom Lady
as District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
(1944)
Jungle Woman
as Fred Mason
(1944)
The Great Alaskan Mystery
as Jim Hudson
(1944)
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Bill Eaton
(1944)
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Gib Dickson
(1944)
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Jim Bradley
(1944)
Twilight on the Prairie
as Gainsworth
(1944)
(1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
as Capt. Pat Vickery
(1943)
Gung Ho!
as Cmdr. Blake
(1943)
Destroyer
as Radioman (uncredited)
(1943)
Corvette K-225
as Canadian Captain
(1943)
Captive Wild Woman
as Fred Mason
(1943)
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Duke Redman
(1943)
The Mad Ghoul
as Sgt. Macklin
(1943)
Get Going
as Mr. Tuttle
(1943)
You Can't Beat the Law
as Frank Sanders
(1943)
Silent Witness
as Racketeer Joe Manson
(1942)
Eyes in the Night
as Detective Pete (Uncredited)
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Lieutenant Farragut
(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)
Death Valley Outlaws
as Jeff
(1941)
The Phantom Cowboy
as Stan Borden
(1940)
Lillian Russell
as Jack - Reporter
(1940)
Johnny Apollo
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1940)
Colorado
as Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
(1940)
Public Deb No. 1
as Reporter
(1940)
Buyer Beware
as Fredericks (uncredited)
(1940)
An Angel from Texas
as 'Pooch' Davis
(1940)
Chasing Trouble
as Pat Callahan
(1940)
The Great Plane Robbery
as Krebber
(1940)
Enemy Agent
as Meeker
(1940)
American Portrait
as George
(1940)
Framed
as Mathew Mattison
(1940)
Give Us Wings
as Tex Austin
(1939)
Made for Each Other
as Newark Official (uncredited)
(1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln
as Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
(1939)
Sky Patrol
as Skeeter Milligan
(1939)
The Big Guy
as Publicity man (uncredited)
(1939)
Society Smugglers
as Peter Garfield
(1939)
Tail Spin
as Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
(1939)
Blind Alley
as Nick
(1939)
Danger Flight
as Skeeter
(1939)
(1939)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Joe Felton
(1939)
Mystery Plane
as Skeeter Milligan
(1939)
Stunt Pilot
as 'Skeeter' Milligan
(1939)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Krebs - 2d hurt worker
(1939)
Blackwell's Island
as Max (uncredited)
(1939)
Tropic Fury
as Thomas E. Snell
(1939)
Crashing Thru
as Delos Harrington
(1939)
Fighting Mad
as Cardigan
(1939)
King of the Turf
as Taylor
(1938)
Sinners in Paradise
as T.L. Honeyman
(1938)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Burns
(1938)
Wives Under Suspicion
as Kirk
(1938)
Port of Missing Girls
as Jim Benton
(1938)
California Frontier
as Mal Halstead
(1938)
Paroled from the Big House
as Commissioner Downey
(1937)
They Gave Him a Gun
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
(1937)
A Doctor's Diary
as Fred Clark
(1937)
Wings Over Honolulu
as Telephone Operator
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Detective (Uncredited)
(1937)
The Wildcatter
as Ed
(1937)
The 13th Man
as Jimmy Moran
(1937)
Blazing Barriers
as Joe Waters
(1937)
Atlantic Flight
as Henry Wadsworth Schultz
(1937)
Youth on Parole
as Ratty
(1937)
Federal Bullets
as Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
(1937)
Swing It Professor
as Lou Morgan
(1936)
The Accusing Finger
as Convict
(1936)
China Clipper
as Radio Operator
(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
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Carter's Aide (uncredited)
(1935)
Cheers of the Crowd
as Reporter (uncredited)