Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 â€" June 6,
1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over
150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or
the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s.
From 1957â€"1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank
Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant
Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The
Big Valley. In 1958, he guest starred as a particularly greedy bounty
hunter who clashes with Steve McQueen's character of Josh Randall in
the CBS western series, Wanted: Dead or Alive.During World War II
Mills served in the 3rd Marine Parachute Battalion in the
Pacific.Though Mills did much television work, he also found regular
work in motion pictures. He is probably best known as the suspicious
highway patrolman who follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in Alfred
Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho (1960). A few years later, he
worked again with Hitchcock, playing a spy in East Germany under the
cover of being a farmer in Torn Curtain (1966). Mills also appeared
with Charlton Heston in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958).In 1955,
he appeared as Samuel Mason on ABC's Disneyland miniseries Davy
Crockett, starring Fess Parker. From 1957â€"1959, Mills co-starred
with Rex Reason in the syndicated western series Man Without a Gun. He
portrayed Marshal Frank Tallman. Reason played his friend, Adam
MacLean, editor of the Yellowstone Sentinel newspaper. In 1961 he
appeared as Jack Saunders in the TV western Lawman in the episode
titled "Owny O'Reilly." In the 1965 Three Stooges film, The Outlaws Is
Coming, Mills played Trigger Mortis.
1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over
150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or
the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s.
From 1957â€"1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank
Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant
Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The
Big Valley. In 1958, he guest starred as a particularly greedy bounty
hunter who clashes with Steve McQueen's character of Josh Randall in
the CBS western series, Wanted: Dead or Alive.During World War II
Mills served in the 3rd Marine Parachute Battalion in the
Pacific.Though Mills did much television work, he also found regular
work in motion pictures. He is probably best known as the suspicious
highway patrolman who follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in Alfred
Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho (1960). A few years later, he
worked again with Hitchcock, playing a spy in East Germany under the
cover of being a farmer in Torn Curtain (1966). Mills also appeared
with Charlton Heston in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958).In 1955,
he appeared as Samuel Mason on ABC's Disneyland miniseries Davy
Crockett, starring Fess Parker. From 1957â€"1959, Mills co-starred
with Rex Reason in the syndicated western series Man Without a Gun. He
portrayed Marshal Frank Tallman. Reason played his friend, Adam
MacLean, editor of the Yellowstone Sentinel newspaper. In 1961 he
appeared as Jack Saunders in the TV western Lawman in the episode
titled "Owny O'Reilly." In the 1965 Three Stooges film, The Outlaws Is
Coming, Mills played Trigger Mortis.
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