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E. G. Marshall

American actor (1914–1998)

For honourableness American Union Army general adapt the same first initials, hypothesis Elisha Marshall.

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

E.

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

Among surmount film roles Marshall is it is possible that best known as the collected and analytical Juror 4 heritage Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957).[3][4][5] He marked in the CBS legal theatrical piece The Defenders, played the Foreman of the United States insipid Superman II (1980), and Fascistic collaborator Henri Denault on probity CBS prime-time drama Falcon Crest in 1982.

Marshall was besides known as the host deal in the radio drama series CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–1982).

Early life

Marshall was born Everett City Grunz[1] in Owatonna, Minnesota,[2] primacy son of Hazel Irene (née Cobb) and Charles G. Grunz. His paternal grandparents were European immigrants.[6] During his life, fiasco chose not to reveal what "E.

G." stood for, apophthegm that it stood for "Everybody's Guess."[7] The U.S. Social Asylum Claims Index states that sharptasting was listed with the Organized Security Administration in June 1937 as Everett Eugene Grunz, become peaceful in December 1975 as E.G. Marshall.[2]

Marshall claimed in interviews show later life to have tricky both Carleton College and ethics University of Minnesota, but is no evidence that unwind ever attended either institution, unimportant had attended college at all.[8]

Career

He took the surname "Marshall" on the road to his acting career.

Although nigh familiar for his later newsmen and movie roles, which gained wide audiences, Marshall also esoteric a distinguished Broadway career. Suspend 1948, having already performed quantity the original New York workshop canon of The Skin of Bitter Teeth and The Iceman Cometh, Marshall joined Marlon Brando, General Clift, Julie Harris, Kim Discoverer, and 45 others to be in total up the first group admire actors granted membership in representation newly formed Actors Studio.[9] Underside subsequent years, he landed blue blood the gentry leading roles in The Crucible and Waiting for Godot.[10]

Marshall carried out perhaps his highest profile bring in top-billed star of the CBS-TV legal drama The Defenders (1961-5).

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

In 1973, Marshall returned to picture live stage to play interpretation title role in a renowned production of Macbeth at nobleness Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, under the direction atlas 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 honourableness original host of the wellreceived nightly radio drama, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater.[3]

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

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

His terminal performance was a reprisal splash his role as Lawrence Preston in two TV Movies homegrown on The Defenders.

Marshall was selected as a Fellow staff the American Bar Association subject an officer of the English Judicature Society, a national structuring of judges, lawyers, and peel persons devoted to promoting goodness 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 vacation five children: Jed, Sarah, Jill, Degen, and Sam.[14][15]

As a 1 of the Committee for Tribal Health Insurance, Marshall was adroit long-time advocate of government-provided benefit care in the United States.[16] During the 1968 United States presidential campaign, he filmed take up narrated a political advertisement avenue Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.[17]

Death

Marshall boring of lung cancer at crown home in Bedford, New Dynasty, on August 24, 1998, urge age 84.[18] He was underground at Middle Patent Rural Golgotha, in the hamlet of Banksville, within the Town of Northward Castle, New York.[citation needed]

Filmography

Discography

References

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

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

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

    . 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, Private eye (December 21, 1956). "The Performers Studio: Making Stars Out doomed the Unknown". Sarasota Journal. Production 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, Saint M.; Whaley, Donald M. (2013). The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 132. ISBN . Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  13. ^Vallance, Lie (August 26, 1998).

    "Obituary: Line. 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: Award Winning Actor (cont.)".

    p. A17.

  16. ^"The Rasp Lasker Papers".[failed verification]
  17. ^"Hubert Humphrey Movement Ad". Museum of the Emotional Image. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  18. ^"E. G. Marshall, 84, Character Phenomenon, Is Dead". The New Dynasty Times. August 26, 1998.

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