In a Lonely Place1950
As Lloyd Barnes
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Morris Ankrum
Born
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography (162)
The Postman Always Rings Twice1946
As Judge (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes1963
As Mr. Bowhead (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo1944
As Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Son of Ali Baba1952
As Ali Baba
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Fountainhead1949
As Prosecutor (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Courage of Lassie1946
As Farmer Crews
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Lady in the Lake1946
As Eugene Grayson
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers1956
As Brig. Gen. John Hanley
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Vera Cruz1954
As Gen. Ramírez
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Joan of Arc1948
As Poton de Xaintrailles, Captain
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Chain Lightning1950
As Ed Bostwick
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Man Behind The Gun1953
As Bram Creegan
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Harvey Girls1946
As Reverend Claggett
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Devil's Canyon1953
As Ed
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Song of the Thin Man1947
As Inspector (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Chief Crazy Horse1955
As Red Cloud
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Thin Man Goes Home1944
As Willoughby Peavy
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Colorado Territory1949
As United States Marshal
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Last Command1955
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Movie Orgy1968
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Cattle Queen of Montana1954
As J.I. 'Pop' Jones
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Ride 'Em Cowboy1941
As Ace Anderson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Invaders from Mars1953
As Col. Fielding
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Sea of Grass1947
As A.J. Crane
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Reunion in France1942
As Martin
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Along the Great Divide1951
As Ed Roden
TMDb 7.4 / 10
My Favorite Spy1951
As Gen. Frazer
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman1957
As Dr. Carl Jordan
TMDb 3.5 / 10
I Wake Up Screaming1941
As Assistant District Attorney
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Tower of London1962
As The Archbishop
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Apache1954
As Dawson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Silver Lode1954
As Zachary Evans
TMDb 6.2 / 10
We Were Strangers1949
As M. Seymour
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Giant Claw1957
As Lt. Gen. Edward Considine
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Taza, Son of Cochise1954
As Grey Eagle
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Swing Fever1943
As Dan Conlon
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Guns of Diablo1964
As Ray Macklin
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Walk the Proud Land1956
As Gen. Wade
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Tales of Manhattan1942
As Judge
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Heavenly Body1944
As Dr. Green
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Red Planet Mars1952
As Secretary of Defense Sparks
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Road Agent1941
As Big John Morgan
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Saga of Hemp Brown1958
As Bo Slauter
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Damned Don't Cry1950
As Jim Whitehead
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Adventure1945
As Mr. Ludlow - Farmer (uncredited)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Drums Across the River1954
As Chief Ouray
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Hiawatha1952
As Iagoo
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Stand Up and Cheer!1934
As Washington Press Correspondent
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Because of You1952
As Dr. Travis
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Ten Gentlemen from West Point1942
As Wood
TMDb 6.4 / 10
High Wall1947
As Dr. Stanley Griffin
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Duel on the Mississippi1955
As Magistrate (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Rocketship X-M1950
As Dr. Ralph Fleming
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Twilight for the Gods1958
As Sea Captain
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Tomorrow Is Another Day1951
As Hugh Wagner
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Desire Me1947
As Hector Martin
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Curse of the Faceless Man1958
As Narrator (unconfirmed)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Flight to Mars1951
As Ikron
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Beginning of the End1957
As Gen. John Hanson
TMDb 4.0 / 10
No Man's Woman1955
As Capt. Hostedder
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Redhead and the Cowboy1951
As Sheriff
TMDb 5.4 / 10
From the Earth to the Moon1958
As President Ulysses S. Grant
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Roxie Hart1942
As Martin S. Harrison
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Eternal Sea1955
As Vice-Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Desperados Are in Town1956
As Mr. Rutherford
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Tarawa Beachhead1958
As Chief of Staff, Pearl Harbor (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Marriage Is a Private Affair1944
As Ed Scofield
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Mutiny1952
As Capt. Radford
TMDb 5.2 / 10
How to Make a Monster1958
As Police Capt. Hancock
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Fort Osage1952
As Arthur Pickett
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Bad Men of Tombstone1949
As Mr. Jones
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Buck Benny Rides Again1940
As Second Outlaw
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Zombies of Mora Tau1957
As Dr. Jonathan Eggert
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Short Grass1950
As Hal Fenton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Green Years1946
As Dr. Galbraith
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Tennessee's Partner1955
As Judge Parker
TMDb 6.5 / 10
This Woman Is Mine1941
As Roussel
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Crashout1955
As Head Guard
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Two Guns and a Badge1954
As Sheriff Jackson
TMDb 10.0 / 10
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come1961
As Gen. Lew Wallace
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Let's Face It1943
As Man in Sun Shell Cafe
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Merton of the Movies1947
As Goodfellow's Club Manager (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Fury at Gunsight Pass1956
As Doc Phillips
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Fighting Coast Guard1951
As Navy Captain
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Good News1947
As Dean Griswold
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Cross of Lorraine1943
As Col. Demas (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Fort Vengeance1953
As Chief Crowfoot
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Moonlighter1953
As Alexander Prince
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Naked Gun1956
As Sheriff Jim Jackson (as Morrie Ankrum)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Giant from the Unknown1958
As Dr. Frederick Cleveland
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Meet the People1944
As Monte Rowland
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Drango1957
As Henry Calder
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe1942
As Mr. Graham
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Mighty McGurk1947
As Fowles
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Most Dangerous Man Alive1961
As Capt. Davis
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Omar Khayyam1957
As Sharain's Father
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Southwest Passage1954
As Dr. Stanton
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Kronos1957
As Dr. Albert Stern
TMDb 5.7 / 10
I Beheld His Glory1953
As Peter
For the Love of Mary1948
As Adm. Walton
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Hell's Crossroads1957
As Wheeler
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Barbary Coast Gent1944
As Alec Veeder
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Light of Western Stars1940
As Nat Hayworth
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Flight Nurse1953
As Interrogation Officer
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Borderline1950
As Bill Whittaker
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Hidden Eye1945
As Ferris (henchman)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Cynthia1947
As Mr. Phillips, Principal
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Three Men from Texas1940
As Bruce Morgan
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Fighting Back1948
As Robert J. Higby
TMDb 6.7 / 10
North of the Rio Grande1937
As Henry Stoneham
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Southside 1-10001950
As Eugene Deane
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Steel Cage1954
As Prison Board Member Garvey, segment "The Hostages"
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Time to Kill1942
As Alexander Morny
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Hills of Old Wyoming1937
As Andrews
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Main Street Today1944
As Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Gentle Annie1944
As Deputy Gansby
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Tennessee Johnson1942
As Jefferson Davis
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Down Liberty Road1957
As Fred Schroder
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Roundup1941
As 'Parenthesis'
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Doomed Caravan1941
As Stephen Westcott
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Three Young Texans1954
As Jeff Blair
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Quincannon, Frontier Scout1956
As Col. Harry Conover
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Cherokee Strip1940
As Hawk Barrett
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Badman's Country1958
As Mayor Coleman
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Power of the Resurrection1958
As Annas
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Arena1953
As Bucky Hillberry
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Best Foot Forward1943
As Col. Harkrider
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Cockeyed Miracle1946
As Dr. Wilson
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Silver Star1955
As Charlie Childress
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Purity Squad1945
As Dr. Adams (uncredited)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Borderland1937
As Loco
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Phantoms, Inc.1945
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Outlaw Stallion1954
As Sheriff
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Raiders1952
As Thomas Ainsworth
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Dixie Dugan1943
As Editor
TMDb 6.5 / 10
When Gangland Strikes1956
As Leo Fantzler
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Young and Wild1958
As Police Capt. Egan
TMDb 4.6 / 10
Fall Guy1945
As District Attorney (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Frontier Gun1958
As Andrew Barton
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Omaha Trail1942
As Henchman Job
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Knights of the Range1940
As Gamecock
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A Star Shall Rise1952
As King Herod
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Hopalong Cassidy Returns1936
As Blackie Felton
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Sky Commando1953
As Gen. W.R. Combs
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Wide Open Town1941
As Jim Stuart
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Showdown1940
As Baron Rendor
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Border Vigilantes1941
As Dan Forbes
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Souvenirs of Death1948
As Gangster (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Rationing1944
As Morgan
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Trail Dust1936
As Tex Anderson
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Rustlers' Valley1937
As Glen Randall
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Pirates on Horseback1941
As Ace Gibson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
In Old Colorado1941
As Weiler, Davidson's Foreman
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Little Mister Jim1947
As Col. W.I. Starwell
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Dark Shadows1944
As Lt. Pat McKay
TMDb 8.9 / 10
The Lion Hunters1951
As Tom Forbes
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Mexican Manhunt1953
As Tip Morgan
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story1955
As Azar the Shepherd
TMDb 3.5 / 10
The Bandit Trail1941
As Red Haggerty
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Return from Nowhere1944
As Doctor (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Fabulous Fraud1948
As Blind Girl's Father
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb