Milburn Stone
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934). In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong. Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke. For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
Drango
Col. Bracken
The Private War of Major Benson
Maj. Gen. Wilton J. Ramsey
Smoke Signal
Sergeant Miles
White Feather
Commissioner Trenton
The Long Gray Line
Captain John J. Pershing
Black Tuesday
Father Slocum
The Siege at Red River
Sgt. Benjamin 'Benjy' Guderman
Arrowhead
Sandy MacKinnon
Second Chance
Edward Dawson (uncredited)
Pickup on South Street
Detective Winoki
The Sun Shines Bright
Horace K. Maydew
Invaders from Mars
Army Capt. Roth
Behind Southern Lines
The Savage
Cpl. Martin
The Atomic City
Insp. Harold Mann
The Racket
Member of Craig's Team (uncredited)
Roadblock
Ray Egan
Flying Leathernecks
Fleet CIC Radio Operator (uncredited)
Operation Pacific
Ground Control Officer (uncredited)
The Fireball
Jeff Davis
Branded
Dawson
Snow Dog
Dr. F. J. McKenzie
No Man of Her Own
Plainclothesman
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Abe Jones
Sky Dragon
Pilot Tim Norton
The Green Promise
Rev. Benton
The Judge
Martin Strang
Train to Alcatraz
Bart Kanin
Heading for Heaven
Elwood Harding
Killer McCoy
Henchman (uncredited)
Michigan Kid
Lanny Slade
Killer Dill
Maboose
Buck Privates Come Home
Announcer
Danger Woman
Gerald King
Inside Job
District Attorney Sutton
Her Adventurous Night
Cop #1
Strange Conquest
Bert Morrow
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Mr. Moore
Little Giant
Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)
Smooth as Silk
John Kimble (District Attorney)
The Scarlet Horseman
Narrator
Little Miss Big
Father Lennergan
The Daltons Ride Again
Parker W. Graham
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Brad Taggart
Strange Confession
Stevens
The Beautiful Cheat
Lucius Haven
On Stage Everybody
Fitzgerald
The Frozen Ghost
George Keene
Swing Out, Sister
Tim Colby
The Master Key
Agent Tom Brant
I'll Remember April
Willie Winchester
Enemy Bacteria
Doctor
She Gets Her Man
'Tommy Gun' Tucker
Jungle Woman
Fred Mason
Twilight on the Prairie
Gainsworth
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Jim Hudson
Moon Over Las Vegas
Jim Bradley
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Bill Eaton
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Gib Dickson
Prices Unlimited
Weird Woman
Phantom Lady
District Attorney (voice) (uncredited)
Gung Ho!
Cmdr. Blake
The Mad Ghoul
Sgt. Macklin
Corvette K-225
Canadian Captain
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Capt. Pat Vickery
Destroyer
Radioman (uncredited)
Get Going
Mr. Tuttle
Captive Wild Woman
Fred Mason
Keep 'Em Slugging
Duke Redman
You Can't Beat the Law
Frank Sanders
Silent Witness
Racketeer Joe Manson
Eyes in the Night
Detective Pete (Uncredited)
Police Bullets
Johnny Reilly
Invisible Agent
German Sergeant (uncredited)
Rubber Racketeers
Angel
Pacific Rendezvous
Hotel Desk Clerk
Reap the Wild Wind
Lieutenant Farragut
Frisco Lil
No Hands on the Clock
FBI Agent
Death Valley Outlaws
Jeff
The Great Train Robbery
Duke Logan
The Phantom Cowboy
Stan Borden
Give Us Wings
Tex Austin
The Great Plane Robbery
Krebber
Colorado
Don Burke - alias Capt. Donald Mason
Public Deb No. 1
Reporter
Buyer Beware
Fredericks (uncredited)
American Portrait
George
Lillian Russell
Jack - Reporter
An Angel from Texas
'Pooch' Davis
Johnny Apollo
Reporter (uncredited)
Enemy Agent
Meeker
Framed
Mathew Mattison
Chasing Trouble
Pat Callahan
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Joe Felton
The Big Guy
Publicity man (uncredited)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Krebs - 2d hurt worker
Crashing Thru
Delos Harrington
Fighting Mad
Cardigan
Danger Flight
Skeeter
Sky Patrol
Skeeter Milligan
Tropic Fury
Thomas E. Snell
When Tomorrow Comes
Head Busboy (uncredited)
Stunt Pilot
'Skeeter' Milligan
Young Mr. Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
Blind Alley
Nick
Mystery Plane
Skeeter Milligan
Society Smugglers
Peter Garfield
Tail Spin
Kansas City Mechanic (Uncredited)
King of the Turf
Taylor
Made for Each Other
Newark Official (uncredited)
Blackwell's Island
Max (uncredited)
California Frontier
Mal Halstead
Paroled from the Big House
Commissioner Downey
Wives Under Suspicion
Kirk
Sinners in Paradise
T.L. Honeyman
Port of Missing Girls
Jim Benton
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Burns
Federal Bullets
Tommy Thompson, Federal Agent
Music for Madame
Detective (Uncredited)
Youth on Parole
Ratty
Atlantic Flight
Henry Wadsworth Schultz
Blazing Barriers
Joe Waters
The 13th Man
Jimmy Moran
The Wildcatter
Ed
Wings Over Honolulu
Telephone Operator
They Gave Him a Gun
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Swing It Professor
Lou Morgan
A Doctor's Diary
Fred Clark
The Accusing Finger
Convict
Two in a Crowd
Kennedy (uncredited)
Murder with Pictures
Operator (uncredited)
The Three Mesquiteers
John
China Clipper
Radio Operator
The Princess Comes Across
American Reporter (uncredited)
Rendezvous
Carter's Aide (uncredited)
Cheers of the Crowd
Reporter (uncredited)