Job Actor, lawyer, professor
Years active 1933-1964
Top Roles Secretary of Defense Sparks, Dr. Ralph Fleming, Military Governor Juan Bradburn, Bill Whittaker
Top GenresDrama, Western, Comedy, Romance, Action, Adventure
Top TopicsBook-Based, Monster, Detectives
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Director), (Producer),
Shares birthday with Charles Boyer, Donald O'Connor, Ben Gazzara  see more..

Morris Ankrum Overview:

Character actor, Morris Ankrum, was born Morris Winslow Ankrum on Aug 28, 1897 in Danville, IL. Ankrum died at the age of 67 on Sep 2, 1964 in Pasadena, CA .

MINI BIO:

Tall, small-eyed, grey-moustached, slightly stooping American actor who rarely looked happy on screen and played villains in low-budget westerns and townsfolk of one kind of another in bigger films. Originally an economics professor, he became interested in acting while teaching in California, beginning his screen career under the name Stephen Morris. Later he balanced accounts a little by playing judges and officers in 1950s films. Died from trichinosis. His son, David Ankrum, is also an actor.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Morris Ankrum Quotes:

Ed, the Sheriff: I think it was them easterners on the jury. They don't care what the custom was before; they just want the gunfights to stop now.
Billy Reynolds: So they turned a page of their calendar over on me, huh?
Ed, the Sheriff: Well, it's progress I guess you'd call it.


Red Cloud: Hear my words. Life melts from me. My eyes see into the mist. Someday a great warrior leader will arise among us. His medicine will be very storng against the whites. He will unite all the tribes of the Lakotas... and lead us to vicotry. But drive envy and jealousy from your hearts. For when this great warrior dies, it will be at the hand of a Lakota.


Gen. John T. Short: Dr. Wainright, you're a scientist, you know what grasshoppers can do. I'm a soldier, I know what guns can do.


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Morris Ankrum Facts
Before becoming an actor, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley.

For "Mant," the movie within the movie in Matinee (1993), Kevin McCarthy plays a character named "Gen. Ankrum." This was director Joe Dante's tribute to Ankrum and the roles he played in those fondly remembered sci-fi films of the 1950s.

He was a stalwart, dependable character actor whose career included supporting roles and bit parts (often uncredited) in over 150 (known) feature films. A large portion of his career involved westerns, in some of which he was cast as an Indian. He is best remembered today as one of the most familiar supporting players in low-budget science-fiction films of the 1950s (starting with Lippert's Rocketship X-M (1950)), where he was usually the military officer, police chief or doctor/scientist.

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