About
Mort Mills
Overview
Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – 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 1957–1959 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. He portrayed supporting roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966), and in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958).
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| 1993 | 24 Hour Psycho | Actor | Highway Patrol Officer (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Breakout | Actor | Middleton | N/A N/A |
| 1970 | Soldier Blue | Actor | Sgt. O'Hearn | 61 Fair |
| 1969 | Strategy of Terror | Actor | Victor Pelling | N/A N/A |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game Is Kill | Actor | Sheriff Fred Kendall | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Return of the Gunfighter | Actor | Will Parker | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Torn Curtain | Actor | Farmer | 62 Fair |
| 1966 | Blindfold | Actor | Henchman | 59 Average |
| 1965 | The Outlaws Is Coming | Actor | Trigger Mortis | 58 Average |
| 1964 | Where Love Has Gone | Actor | Petey Peterson | 58 Average |
| 1964 | Bullet for a Badman | Actor | Ira | 59 Average |
| 1964 | The Quick Gun | Actor | Cagle | 59 Average |
| 1963 | Gunfight at Comanche Creek | Actor | Ben Bayer | 58 Average |
| 1961 | Twenty Plus Two | Actor | Harbin | 59 Average |
| 1960 | Dante | Actor | Lt. Robert Malone | 69 Fair |
| 1960 | Psycho | Actor | Highway Patrol Officer | 83 Very good |
| 1958 | Ride a Crooked Trail | Actor | Pecos | 59 Average |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | Actor | Al Schwartz - District Attorney's Assistant | 73 Good |
| 1957 | Man in the Shadow | Actor | Geteman | 59 Average |
| 1957 | Bombers B-52 | Actor | Sgt. Addressing Flyers (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1957 | Man Without a Gun | Actor | Marshal Frank Tallman | 69 Fair |
| 1957 | The Iron Sheriff | Actor | Sutherland | 58 Average |
| 1957 | The Shadow on the Window | Actor | Myra's Husband (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1956 | Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | Actor | Sam Mason | 59 Average |
| 1956 | The Harder They Fall | Actor | Reporter in Hospital (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1956 | Crashing Las Vegas | Actor | Lead Gangster | 58 Average |
| 1955 | Desert Sands | Actor | Wolock - Radio Man (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1955 | The Marauders | Actor | Carmack | 59 Average |
| 1955 | Dial Red O | Actor | Newspaper Photographer | 58 Average |
| 1954 | Cry Vengeance | Actor | Johnny Blue-Eyes | 58 Average |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born | Actor | Makeup Artist (uncredited) | 63 Fair |
| 1954 | Pushover | Actor | Second Bartender (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1954 | It Should Happen to You | Actor | Photographer (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1953 | The Wild One | Actor | Deputy (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1953 | Texas Bad Man | Actor | Bartender | N/A N/A |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Actor | Doctor | 59 Average |
| 1953 | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Actor | Floyd (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1952 | Affair in Trinidad | Actor | Martin, Wittol's Henchman (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1951 | The Living Christ | Actor | Habor | 68 Fair |