E.G. Marshall

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E.G. Marshall
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Born:
June 8, 1914 in Owatonna, MN
Death:
August 24, 1998 in Mount Kisco, NY
Biography:Actor "E. G. Marshall" started out on radio in his native Minnesota, then headed for New York and Broadway. After several years' solid stage service, Marshall began accepting small roles in such films as "13 Rue Madeline" (1945) and "Call Northside 777" (1947). A mainstay of television's so-called Golden Age, Marshall excelled in incisive, authoritative roles. Long before winning two Emmy awards for his portrayal of lawyer Lawrence Preston on TV's "The Defenders" (1961-65), Marshall was associated with fictional jurisprudence as the military prosecutor in "The Caine Mutiny" (1954) and as Juror #4 in "Twelve Angry Men" (1957).

In contrast to his businesslike demeanor, Marshall is one of Hollywood's most notorious pranksters; he was never more impish than when he ad-libbed profanities and nonsequiturs while his lips were hidden by a surgical mask in the 1969-73 TV series The Bold Ones. The best of... Full Biography

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