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