MORT MILLS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Mort Mills was born on January 11th, 1919 in New York City, New York with the birth name Mortimer Morris Kaplan. Over the course of his career as an actor he added over 200 film and television credits to his resume.
Some of his more well known television roles included recurring roles on the series, "Man Without a Gun", "Perry Mason" and "The Big Valley".
Other television credits included, "Wanted: Dead or Alive", "Davy Crockett", "I Led 3 Lives", "The Adventures of Kit Carson", "Dante", "The Man Behind the Badge", "Zane Grey Theatre", "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger", "Bat Masterson", "Sheriff of Cochise", "Shotgun Slade", "Bonanza", "Death Valley Days", "Sugarfoot", "Bronco", "The Untouchables", "Wagon Train", "The Rifleman", "Casey Jones", "Hopalong Cassidy", "The Lone Ranger", "The Texan", "The Cisco Kid", "Panic!", "Zorro", "The Detective", "Pony Express" and "Bewitched" among many others.
Although his acting career was mostly centered around television roles, he did occasionally add film work to his resume appearing in such features as, "Touch of Evil" (1958) co-starring Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, Joi Lansing, Victor Millan, Dennis Weaver, Joanna Cook Moore, Mercedes McCambridge, Keenan Wynn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joseph Cotten and Marlene Dietrich, Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller "Psycho" (1960) starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Pat Hitchcock, Frank Albertson, Virginia Gregg, John Anderson, Lurene Tuttle, Vaughn Taylor and Janet Leigh, "The Outlaws Is Coming" (1965) starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Joe DeRita), Nancy Kovack and Adam West, "Torn Curtain" (1966) starring Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, David Opatoshu and Carolyn Conwell among many others, "The Name of the Game is Kill" (1968) with Jack Lord, Susan Strasberg, Collin Wilcox and Tisha Sterling, "Strategy of Terror" (1969) starring Hugh O'Brian, Barbara Rush, Neil Hamilton and Jan Merlin and "Soldier Blue" (1970) starring Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Dana Elcar, Jorge Rivero and John Anderson.
Mort Mills' final acting roles were on the television series, "Mission: Impossible", "Alias Smith and Jones" and "The Streets of San Francisco" in 1973. He then retired from acting and passed away at the age of seventy four on June 6th, 1993 in Ventura, California.
Filmography
1973 The Streets of San Francisco
1972 Alias Smith and Jones
1967-1972 Mission: Impossible
1972 The Mod Squad
1971 Adam-12
1970 Breakout
1970 Soldier Blue
1970 Lancer
1968-1970 Mannix
1969 Land of the Giants
1967-1969 Ironside
1969 My Friend Tony
1969 The Name of the Game
1969 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1969 The Outcasts
1969 Strategy of Terror
1967-1968 Daniel Boone
1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill
1968 Maya
1956-1967 Gunsmoke
1967 Felony Squad
1967 The Invaders
1959-1967 Bonanza
1967 Return of the Gunfighter
1966 Iron Horse
1966 Laredo
1966 The Green Hornet
1966 Torn Curtain
1966 Blue Light
1965-1966 The Big Valley
1965 Blindfold
1965 Bewitched
1965 A Man Called Shenandoah
1965 My Favorite Martian
1963-1965 The Virginian
1965 The Wild Wild West
1963-1965 The Fugitive
1958-1965 Wagon Train
1965 Death Valley Days
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1960-1965 Perry Mason
1965 The Outlaws Is Coming
1964 Where Love Has Gone
1964 Bullet for a Badman
1964 The Quick Gun
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963 Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963 G.E. True
1960-1962 Laramie
1958-1962 The Rifleman
1959-1962 The Untouchables
1961 Lawman
1961 Twenty Plus Two
1960-1961 Stagecoach West
1958-1961 Maverick
1957-1961 Zane Grey Theatre
1956-1961 Cheyenne
1960 The Detectives
1957-1960 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1958-1960 Bronco
1960 The Aquanauts
1960 Dante
1960 Markham
1960 Tate
1960 Psycho
1960 Johnny Ringo
1960 Pony Express
1959-1960 Tales of Wells Fargo
1960 Men Into Space
1960 Shotgun Slade
1960 The Texan
1958-1960 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958-1960 Sugarfoot
1960 The Alaskans
1959 Law of the Plainsman
1959 The Man from Blackhawk
1959 Bat Masterson
1959 Wichita Town
1957-1959 Man Without a Gun
1959 The David Niven Show
1959 Have Gun - Will Travel
1957-1959 Trackdown
1955-1958 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1958 Ride a Crooked Trail
1958 Touch of Evil
1958 Zorro
1957 Goodyear Theatre
1957 Bombers B-52
1957 Broken Arrow
1957 Casey Jones
1957 Man in the Shadow
1957 The Iron Sheriff
1957 Panic!
1957 The Shadow on the Window
1957 Crossroads
1956-1957 The 20th Century-Fox Hour
1956 Sheriff of Cochise
1956 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1952-1956 The Ford Television Theatre
1956 Tension at Table Rock
1956 You Are There
1956 Crusader
1956 Schlitz Playhouse
1956 The Harder They Fall
1956 Crashing Las Vegas
1956 Cavalcade of America
1956 Ransom!
1955 Desert Sands
1954-1955 The Cisco Kid
1955 Trial
1955 The Marauders
1955 The Naked Street
1955 To Hell and Back
1955 Big Town
1955 The Lone Ranger
1955 The Lineup
1955 The Man Behind the Badge
1955 Treasury Men in Action
1955 Dial Red O
1955 Jupiter's Darling
1955 Waterfront
1954 Cry Vengeance
1954 A Star Is Born
1954 Pushover
1954 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
1954 Drive a Crooked Road
1954 It Should Happen to You
1953 The Wild One
1953 Texas Bad Man
1953 Hopalong Cassidy
1953 The Adventures of Kit Carson
1953 Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953 The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953 The Juggler
1953 I Led 3 Lives
1952 Family Theatre
1952 Biff Baker, U.S.A.
1952 No Holds Barred
1952 Affair in Trinidad
1952 Gruen Guild Theater
1951 The Living Christ Series
