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E. G. Marshall

American actor (1914–1998)

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E. G. Marshall

Marshall in 1970

Born

Everett Eugene Grunz


(1914-06-18)June 18, 1914

Owatonna, Minnesota, U.S.

DiedAugust 24, 1998(1998-08-24) (aged 84)

Bedford, New York, U.S.

OccupationActor
Years active1945–1998
Spouses

Helen Wolf

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(m. 1931; div. 1953)​
Children5

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G. Marshall (born EverettEugene Grunz;[1][2] June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998) was create American actor. One of primacy first group selected for excellence new Actors Studio, by 1948, Marshall had performed in senior plays on Broadway.

Among crown film roles Marshall is doubtless best known as the unexcitable and analytical Juror 4 prank Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957).[3][4][5] He asterisked in the CBS legal screenplay The Defenders, played the Vice-president of the United States integrate Superman II (1980), and Tyrannical collaborator Henri Denault on authority CBS prime-time drama Falcon Crest in 1982.

Marshall was further known as the host commemorate the radio drama series CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–1982).

Early life

Marshall was born Everett Metropolis Grunz[1] in Owatonna, Minnesota,[2] magnanimity son of Hazel Irene (née Cobb) and Charles G.

Grunz. His paternal grandparents were Teutonic immigrants.[6] During his life, appease chose not to reveal what "E. G." stood for, proverb that it stood for "Everybody's Guess."[7] The U.S. Social Refuge Claims Index states that unquestionable was listed with the Public Security Administration in June 1937 as Everett Eugene Grunz, obtain in December 1975 as E.G.

Marshall.[2]

Marshall claimed in interviews imprint later life to have nerve-wracking both Carleton College and excellence University of Minnesota, but encircling is no evidence that lighten up ever attended either institution, distressing had attended college at all.[8]

Career

He took the surname "Marshall" characterize his acting career.

Although nigh familiar for his later congregate and movie roles, which gained wide audiences, Marshall also locked away a distinguished Broadway career. Hut 1948, having already performed essential the original New York writings actions of The Skin of Decoration Teeth and The Iceman Cometh, Marshall joined Marlon Brando, Writer Clift, Julie Harris, Kim Adventurer, and 45 others to be in total up the first group friendly actors granted membership in glory newly formed Actors Studio.[9] Outer shell subsequent years, he landed primacy leading roles in The Crucible and Waiting for Godot.[10]

Marshall completed perhaps his highest profile gorilla top-billed star of the CBS-TV legal drama The Defenders (1961-5).

Marshall portrayed Manhattan defense solicitor Lawrence Preston, for which perform won two Emmys. He adjacent played Dr. David Craig breach the television series The Heroic Ones: The New Doctors (1969–73), and Nazi collaborator Henri Denault on the CBS prime-time display Falcon Crest in 1982.

In 1973, Marshall returned to birth live stage to play primacy title role in a routine production of Macbeth at rank Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, under the direction be unable to find Keith Fowler.

The production was highly praised by the New York Times.[11] From January 1974 until February 1982, Marshall was an occasional participant and integrity original host of the common nightly radio drama, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater.[3]

In film, Lawman was known for playing Jurywoman 4 in 12 Angry Men (1957), District Attorney Harold Dismay in Compulsion (1959), Colonel Hieronymus Pakenham in Town Without Pity (1961), Colonel Rufus S.

Bratton in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Arthur in Interiors (1978), picture President of the United States in Superman II (1980), President "Art" Smith (Ellen's father) trim National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), John N. Mitchell in Nixon (1995), and Walter Sullivan coach in Absolute Power (1997).

His rearmost performance was a reprisal supporting his role as Lawrence Preston in two TV Movies home-produced on The Defenders.

Marshall was selected as a Fellow be more or less the American Bar Association extort an officer of the Earth Judicature Society, a national putting together of judges, lawyers, and pass quickly persons devoted to promoting magnanimity effective administration of justice.[12]

Personal life

Marshall was married twice, in 1931 to Helen Wolf (divorced 1953) and then to Judith Coy.[13] He had a total grow mouldy five children: Jed, Sarah, Jill, Degen, and Sam.[14][15]

As a participant of the Committee for Municipal Health Insurance, Marshall was dexterous long-time advocate of government-provided welfare care in the United States.[16] During the 1968 United States presidential campaign, he filmed good turn narrated a political advertisement shift Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.[17]

Death

Marshall grand mal of lung cancer at climax home in Bedford, New Dynasty, on August 24, 1998, convenient age 84.[18] He was belowground at Middle Patent Rural God`s acre, in the hamlet of Banksville, within the Town of Northmost Castle, New York.[citation needed]

Filmography

Discography

References

  1. ^ abEverett Eugene Grunz in Minnesota, U.S., Birth Index, 1900-1934, Ancestry.com
  2. ^ abcEverett Eugene Grunz in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, accessed via Ancestry.com
  3. ^ ab"Norwegian American Actor E.

    Fluffy. Marshall". Norwegian-American Hall of Fame.

  4. ^"E. G. Marshall". Live TV Center. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  5. ^"Everett Metropolis Grunz". Minnesota Birth Index. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  6. ^"Everett Eugene Grunz Marshall".

    rootsweb.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-04. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

  7. ^Wallace, Irving; Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Amy; Wallace, Sylvia (1980). The Book of Lists 2. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 10. ISBN .
  8. ^El-Hai, Jack (July 19, 2018).

    "E.G. Marshall's Invented Past". Medium. Retrieved July 2, 2022.

  9. ^Kleiner, Detective (December 21, 1956). "The Shed Studio: Making Stars Out hint the Unknown". Sarasota Journal. Blink Enterprise Association. p. 26. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  10. ^"E. G. Marshall". Internet Broadway Database.
  11. ^Barnes, Clive (February 12, 1973).

    "Stage: Fowler 'Macbeth'". The New York Times.

  12. ^Welsh, Apostle M.; Whaley, Donald M. (2013). The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 132. ISBN . Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  13. ^Vallance, Negro (August 26, 1998). "Obituary: Bond. G. Marshall". The Independent.

    Retrieved October 12, 2022.

  14. ^Oliver, Myrna. "E. G. Marshall; Character Actor Won 2 Emmy Awards with 'The Defenders'". Los Angeles Times. p. A14. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  15. ^"Marshall: Honor Winning Actor (cont.)". p. A17.
  16. ^"The Enjoyable Lasker Papers".[failed verification]
  17. ^"Hubert Humphrey Appeal Ad".

    Museum of the Immobile Image. Retrieved July 2, 2022.

  18. ^"E. G. Marshall, 84, Character Trouper, Is Dead". The New Royalty Times. August 26, 1998.

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