Mort Mills has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor recognizable to viewers well beyond any single title. The film 'Psycho' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does. Viewers may also know him from 'Touch of Evil'. The distance between the first credit and the most recent is about 74 years.
Mort Mills
74 years (Jan 11, 1919 – Jun 6, 1993)New York City, New York, USA
36 Movies31 Series
Mort Mills has been in the trade long enough to be called a veteran actor recognizable to viewers well beyond any single title. The film 'Psycho' accounts for more of the public profile than anything else does. Viewers may also know him from 'Touch of Evil'. The distance between the first credit and the most recent is about 74 years.
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).