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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Paul Birch

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way1956 — 12 years ago(September 07, 2013 05:21 PM)

Paul Birch died fairly young on the island of Grenada in 1969. Does anyone know the circumstances of his death?

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dr-strangeno24 — 12 years ago(January 13, 2014 07:01 PM)

Melanoma, according to findagrave -
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16261831

Herbert West! Poppin' toe tags!

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dcgalloway1956 — 12 years ago(January 14, 2014 03:10 AM)

Thank you very much for letting me know. My grandfather died from the same cause in 1983.
David C. Galloway

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namaGemo — 9 years ago(June 12, 2016 12:31 PM)

It was years ago, but sorry to hear that. I just watched your dad in Queen Of Outer Space and had to look into his early death since they listed his birth and date of death. Way to soon to go.

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riverwoodmike — 12 years ago(February 27, 2014 03:26 PM)

Paul Birch (b. Paul Smith) was my father. He died at age 57 on the island of Grenada. The disease from which he suffered was Lymphosarcoma (sp?). Cancer of the lymph nodes. I was with him at the time of his death.
Mike Smith

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dcgalloway1956 — 12 years ago(February 27, 2014 07:53 PM)

Thank you for letting me know. Did your father adopt the stage name of Birch because of the other Paul Smith who appeared on the Doris Day Show many years ago?
David C. Galloway

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riverwoodmike — 12 years ago(February 28, 2014 05:58 AM)

The stage name Paul Birch was adopted by my father at least by the early 50s. I don't know why it was chosen by him. He may have had help from his early agent, Jean Haliburton (sp?) The Doris day show was on in the late 60s. A good friend of my father's, Denver Pyle was in some episodes.
M. Smith

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dcgalloway1956 — 12 years ago(February 28, 2014 08:49 AM)

Denver Pyle was great! The other Paul Smith is still living. For some unknown reason he truncated his film career many years before retirement. He specialized in playing goofy characters.
David C. Galloway

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Bill-16 — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 02:03 PM)

I loved your dad in the SciFi movies he did, he was The Rock in most of them . He was also in one my all time favorite classics, It's a mad mad mad mad World. Just saw it again 2 days ago.
Best wishes.