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Milburn Stone
Actor
Born July 5, 1904Died June 12, 1980 (75 years)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years · as Doc Adams |
| 1987 | Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge · as Dr. Galen Adams (flashback Sequence) |
| 1957 | Drango · as Col. Bracken |
| 1955 | The Private War of Major Benson · as Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Doc |
| 1955 | Smoke Signal · as Sergeant Miles |
| 1955 | White Feather · as Commissioner Trenton |
| 1955 | TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) · as Brewster |
| 1955 | The Long Gray Line · as Captain John J. Pershing |
| 1954 | Black Tuesday · as Father Slocum |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Mr. Dale |
| 1954 | The Siege at Red River · as Sgt. Benjamin 'benjy' Guderman |
| 1953 | The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series) · as Grady Norton |
| 1953 | Arrowhead · as Sandy Mackinnon |
| 1953 | Second Chance · as Edward Dawson (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Pickup on South Street · as Detective Winoki |
| 1953 | Invaders from Mars · as Army Capt. Roth |
| 1953 | The Sun Shines Bright · as Horace K. Maydew |
| 1952 | The Savage · as Cpl. Martin |
| 1952 | The Atomic City · as Insp. Harold Mann |
| 1951 | Dragnet (1951) (TV Series) |
| 1951 | The Racket · as Member Of Craig's Team (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Roadblock · as Ray Egan |
| 1951 | Flying Leathernecks · as Fleet Cic Radio Operator (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (TV Series) |
| 1951 | Operation Pacific · as Ground Control Officer (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Racket Squad (TV Series) |
| 1950 | The Fireball · as Jeff Davis |
| 1950 | Branded · as Dawson |
| 1950 | Snow Dog · as Dr. F. J. Mckenzie |
| 1950 | No Man of Her Own · as Plainclothesman |
| 1949 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass · as Abe Jones |
| 1949 | The Sky Dragon · as Pilot Tim Norton |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Colonel |
| 1949 | The Green Promise · as Rev. Benton |
| 1949 | The Judge · as Martin Strang |
| 1948 | Train to Alcatraz · as Bart Kanin |
| 1947 | Heading for Heaven · as Elwood Harding |
| 1947 | Killer McCoy · as Henchman (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Cass Timberlane · as Nestor Purdwin |
| 1947 | Michigan Kid · as Lanny Slade |
| 1947 | Killer Dill · as Maboose |
| 1947 | Time Out of Mind · as Stage Manager |
| 1947 | Buck Privates Come Home · as Announcer |
| 1947 | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman · as Raven Club Announcer |
| 1946 | Danger Woman · as Gerald King |
| 1946 | Inside Job · as District Attorney Sutton |
| 1946 | Strange Conquest · as Bert Morrow |
| 1946 | The Spider Woman Strikes Back · as Mr. Moore |
| 1946 | Little Giant · as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice) |
| 1946 | Smooth as Silk · as John Kimble (district Attorney) |
| 1945 | The Daltons Ride Again · as Parker W. Graham |
| 1945 | The Royal Mounted Rides Again · as Brad Taggart |
| 1945 | Strange Confession · as Stevens |
| 1945 | The Frozen Ghost · as George Keene |
| 1945 | The Master Key · as Agent Tom Brant |
| 1945 | She Gets Her Man · as 'tommy Gun' Tucker |
| 1944 | Jungle Woman · as Fred Mason |
| 1944 | Gambler's Choice · as Doctor |
| 1944 | The Great Alaskan Mystery · as Jim Hudson |
| 1944 | Hat Check Honey · as David Courtland |
| 1944 | |
| 1944 | Strange Confession · as Chauzel |
| 1944 | Phantom Lady · as District Attorney (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders · as Cmdr. Blake |
| 1943 | The Mad Ghoul · as Sgt. Macklin |
| 1943 | Corvette K-225 · as Canadian Captain |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death · as Capt. Pat Vickery |
| 1943 | Destroyer · as Radioman (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Captive Wild Woman · as Fred Mason |
| 1943 | Submarine Alert · as Lt. Winston - Naval Intelligence |
| 1943 | Keep 'Em Slugging · as Duke Redman |
| 1943 | You Can't Beat the Law · as Frank Sanders |
| 1942 | Eyes in the Night · as Detective Pete (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Invisible Agent · as German Sergeant (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Rubber Racketeers · as Angel |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind · as Lieutenant Farragut |
| 1942 | Pacific Rendezvous · as Hotel Desk Clerk |
| 1941 | No Hands on the Clock · as Fbi Agent |
| 1941 | The Great Train Robbery · as Duke Logan |
| 1940 | Give Us Wings · as Tex Austin |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | Public Deb No. 1 · as Reporter |
| 1940 | Buyer Beware · as Fredericks (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Lillian Russell · as Jack - Reporter |
| 1940 | An Angel from Texas · as 'pooch' Davis |
| 1940 | Johnny Apollo · as Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Enemy Agent · as Meeker |
| 1940 | Black Friday · as Reporter At Execution |
| 1940 | Chasing Trouble · as Pat Callahan |
| 1939 | Charlie McCarthy, Detective · as Joe Felton |
| 1939 | Nick Carter, Master Detective · as Krebs - 2d Hurt Worker |
| 1939 | Crashing Thru · as Delos Harrington |
| 1939 | Fighting Mad · as Cardigan |
| 1939 | Danger Flight · as Skeeter |
| 1939 | Sky Patrol · as Skeeter Milligan |
| 1939 | |
| 1939 | Stunt Pilot · as 'skeeter' Milligan |
| 1939 | Young Mr. Lincoln · as Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Blind Alley · as Nick |
| 1939 | Blackwell's Island · as Max (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Mystery Plane · as Skeeter Milligan |
| 1939 | Society Smugglers · as Peter Garfield |
| 1939 | Tail Spin · as Kansas City Mechanic (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Made for Each Other · as Newark Official (uncredited) |
| 1938 | California Frontier · as Mal Halstead |
| 1938 | Wives Under Suspicion · as Kirk |
| 1938 | Sinners in Paradise · as T.l. Honeyman |
| 1938 | Port of Missing Girls · as Jim Benton |
| 1938 | Mr. Boggs Steps Out · as Burns |
| 1937 | Music for Madame · as Detective (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Youth on Parole · as Ratty |
| 1937 | Atlantic Flight · as Henry Wadsworth Schultz |
| 1937 | Reported Missing! · as Radio Operator |
| 1937 | Blazing Barriers · as Joe Waters |
| 1937 | The 13th Man · as Jimmy Moran |
| 1937 | You Can't Beat Love · as Reporter Wilson |
| 1937 | Wings Over Honolulu · as Telephone Operator |
| 1937 | They Gave Him a Gun · as Defense Attorney (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Swing It Professor · as Lou Morgan |
| 1936 | Three Smart Girls · as Telegraph Desk Clerk |
| 1936 | Banjo on My Knee · as Eddie - Sailor |
| 1936 | The Accusing Finger · as Convict |
| 1936 | Two in a Crowd · as Kennedy (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Murder with Pictures · as Operator (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Three Mesquiteers · as John |
| 1936 | China Clipper · as Radio Operator |
| 1936 | The Princess Comes Across · as American Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Milky Way · as Reporter |
| 1935 | The Fighting Marines · as Red - Henchman [ch. 2,4-7,10,11] |
| 1935 | Rendezvous · as Carter's Aide (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Cheers of the Crowd · as Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Ladies Crave Excitement · as Sailor |