Morris Ankrum
Biography
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Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television and film character actor.
Before signing with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s, Nussbaum had already changed his last name to Ankrum. Upon signing with the studio, he chose to use the name "Stephen Morris" before changing it to Morris Ankrum in 1939.
Ankrum's stern visage and sharply defined features helped cast him in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men (particularly army officers), judges and even psychiatrists in more than 150 films, mostly B movies. One standout role was in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production of Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biographical film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. president. As Sen. Jefferson Davis, Ankrum movingly addresses the United States Senate upon his resignation to lead the Confederate States of America as that republic's first—and only—president. Ankrum's film career was extensive and spanned 30 years. His credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres.
Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache (1954), and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan.
In the sci-fi genre, he appeared in Rocketship X-M (1950), Flight to Mars (1951), as a Martian, Red Planet Mars (1952), playing the United States Secretary of Defense; the cult classic Invaders From Mars (1953), playing a United States Army officer; and as an Army general in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). In 1957 he played a psychiatrist in the cult sci-fi classic Kronos and had military-officer roles in Beginning of the End and The Giant Claw.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-08-28
Place of birth
Danville, Illinois, USA
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Cast
Lady in the Lake
1946
6.00
The Movie Orgy
1968
6.50
Invaders from Mars
1953
5.93
Fall Guy
1945
0.00
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
6.80
The Heavenly Body
1944
5.70
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
7.10
Young and Wild
1958
3.50
Crashout
1955
6.50
High Wall
1947
6.20
Silver Lode
1954
6.10
Colorado Territory
1949
6.90
The Giant Claw
1957
4.80
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.10
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951
6.50
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
7.10
Apache
1954
6.10
Tennessee's Partner
1955
6.50
Flight to Mars
1951
5.30
Kronos
1957
5.60
Courage of Lassie
1946
5.70
Rocketship X-M
1950
4.80
Zombies of Mora Tau
1957
5.52
The Last Command
1955
6.40
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
5.18
Twilight for the Gods
1958
4.20
Most Dangerous Man Alive
1961
4.90
Borderline
1950
5.50
In a Lonely Place
1950
7.60
Beginning of the End
1957
3.80
Southside 1-1000
1950
5.71
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956
6.00
When Gangland Strikes
1956
0.00
Time to Kill
1942
5.50
We Were Strangers
1949
5.90
Doomed Caravan
1941
3.00
The Showdown
1940
6.00
In Old Colorado
1941
6.67
Pirates on Horseback
1941
0.00
Three Men from Texas
1940
6.30
Wide Open Town
1941
0.00
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
6.30
North of the Rio Grande
1937
6.00
Rustlers' Valley
1937
6.00
Borderland
1937
0.00
Duel on the Mississippi
1955
6.50
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
0.00
Trail Dust
1936
4.00
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
5.50
Giant from the Unknown
1958
4.00
No Man's Woman
1955
4.70
Son of Ali Baba
1952
5.80
Roxie Hart
1942
6.77
The Man Behind The Gun
1953
5.70
Guns of Diablo
1964
5.30
The Hidden Eye
1945
7.60
Chain Lightning
1950
6.20
Sky Commando
1953
5.50
My Favorite Spy
1951
6.00
The Redhead and The Cowboy
1951
4.90
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
6.60
Drums Across the River
1954
5.40
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956
4.40
Hiawatha
1952
0.00
The Steel Cage
1954
0.00
The Cockeyed Miracle
1946
6.70
How to Make a Monster
1958
5.60
Hell's Crossroads
1957
5.43
The Fabulous Fraud
1948
5.00
Devil's Canyon
1953
4.80
Swing Fever
1943
5.00
Rationing
1944
3.00
Desire Me
1947
5.70
The Lion Hunters
1951
5.30
Mutiny
1952
4.80
Because of You
1952
5.70
Adventure
1945
6.20
Cynthia
1947
5.90
Southwest Passage
1954
5.40
The Eternal Sea
1955
6.40
Good News
1947
6.20
Omar Khayyam
1957
5.00
Fury at Gunsight Pass
1956
6.00
For the Love of Mary
1948
5.80
Fort Vengeance
1953
6.20
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
4.60
The Raiders
1952
6.20
A Star Shall Rise
1952
0.00
Fighting Back
1948
6.00
Gentle Annie
1944
5.20
Fort Osage
1952
6.00
Dixie Dugan
1943
5.00
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942
5.80
Flight Nurse
1953
5.50
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
6.60
Dark Shadows
1944
9.30
Best Foot Forward
1943
6.00
Two Guns and a Badge
1954
0.00
Cherokee Strip
1940
4.50
Purity Squad
1945
0.00
Drango
1957
5.40
Meet the People
1944
5.00
The Moonlighter
1953
5.70
Along the Great Divide
1951
7.33
Merton of the Movies
1947
6.80
The Bandit Trail
1941
6.50
The Omaha Trail
1942
7.00
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958
5.40
Mexican Manhunt
1953
5.80
Light of Western Stars
1940
4.00
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
0.00
Tower of London
1962
6.00
Knights of the Range
1940
0.00
Vera Cruz
1954
6.64
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
5.70
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
5.30
Short Grass
1950
6.00
Tales of Manhattan
1942
6.30
I Beheld His Glory
1953
0.00
The Power of the Resurrection
1958
0.00
This Woman Is Mine
1941
3.20
Border Vigilantes
1941
6.00
The Roundup
1941
8.00
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
6.30
Arena
1953
4.70
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
5.80
The Silver Star
1955
5.00
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
5.60
The Outlaw Stallion
1954
5.00
Badman's Country
1958
5.40
The Desperados Are in Town
1956
0.00
Three Young Texans
1954
5.20
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
5.60
Frontier Gun
1958
6.00
Naked Gun
1956
6.80
Little Mister Jim
1947
4.00
The Mighty McGurk
1947
6.40
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
5.20
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
6.50
Return from Nowhere
1944
5.00
Song of the Thin Man
1947
6.80
Chief Crazy Horse
1955
5.63
Main Street Today
1944
6.20
Souvenirs of Death
1948
6.50
The Fountainhead
1949
6.90
Walk the Proud Land
1956
6.10
Reunion in France
1942
6.40
Red Planet Mars
1952
4.70
Tarawa Beachhead
1958
6.00
Joan of Arc
1948
6.10
Tennessee Johnson
1942
6.10
Tales of Manhattan
1942
6.30
The Harvey Girls
1946
6.50
The Sea of Grass
1947
6.30
Road Agent
1941
0.00
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
4.80
The Green Years
1946
6.50