Marshall Thompson
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1925-11-27
Deathday 1992-05-18 (66 years old)
Place of Birth Peoria, Illinois, USA
Also Known As James Marshall Thompson, J. Marsh Thomson
Marshall Thompson
Biography
Marshall Thompson (November 27, 1925 – May 18, 1992) was an American film and television actor. He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures. He played quiet, thoughtful teens in Universal's feature films, including a lead opposite singing star Gloria Jean in Reckless Age, earning $350 weekly. During 1946 Universal discharged most of its contract players; that same year Thompson moved to MGM and his film roles steadily increased and improved. Thompson became a freelance actor in the 1950s and worked for various studios on a variety of pictures, including a number of horror and science-fiction features; this included the role of Carruthers in It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), one of the two feature films that would later inspire the plot for director Ridley Scott's 1979 big budget feature film Alien. Thompson also starred as Mel Hunter in the syndicated science fiction TV series World of Giants, about a man who has been miniaturized and must live in a dollhouse. By the 1960s, Thompson's boyish looks had matured and his screen persona became more authoritative. He co-starred with Annie Fargé in the 33-episode CBS sitcom Angel (1960–1961) about an American architect with a charming but scatterbrained French wife, who often got into zany, Lucy Ricardo-esque situations, caused in part by her lack of English; the show was canceled after 33 episodes due to low ratings, despite critical acclaim for French-born newcomer Annie Fargé. In the mid-1960s Thompson starred in CBS's Daktari, a television series about a veterinarian in Africa; the series was based on Thompson's 1965 feature film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion. Later in his career, he appeared in many television episodes and in feature films such as The Turning Point (1977) and The Formula(1980). Thompson was a brother-in-law of actor Richard Long, best known for his role as Jarrod Barkley in ABC's The Big Valley. Thompson's wife, Barbara, was Long's sister. Marshall Thompson died from congestive heart failure at the age of sixty-six in Royal Oak, Michigan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Thompson , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Mr. Rich
as Dr. Ted Johnson
as Ward Silloway
as Director
as Geologist #1
as Dr. Brad Wednesday
as Bennett
as Carter
as Paul Newman
as (archive footage)
as Meadows
as Jim Hunter
as Jim
as Dr. Orin Hillyard
as Maj. Greg Donahue
as Dr. Marsh Tracy
as Dr. Marsh Tracy
as Shaving Man
as Maj. Benson
as Jonn Sonnenberg
as Marsh Connors
as Dr.Joseph Farady
as Johnny Smith
as Cmdr. Charles Ernest Prescott
as Dr. Cliff Mitchell
as Carruthers
as Major Jeff Cummings
as Simon Lewt
as Arthur Poe
as Bradley Mason
as Man Exiting Airplane (uncredited)
as Eli Hendericks
as Wilfred Banning Pendleton III
as Johnson
as Tom Markel
as Billy Lang
as 2nd Lt. Tim Vernon
as Leach Fields
as Tom Hunt
as Bill Andreson
as Marsh Walker
as (segment "Child of the Wind")
as Jeff Norton
as Bruce Reeber
as Jim Turner
as Dan Jenkins
as Steve Davis
as Blivens Scott
as Lance Beaufort
as Johnny Long
as George Washington
as Pythias
as James Wilson
as Gunther Wyckoff
as Rod MacDougall
as Henry Shanway
as Narrator (adult John Kenyon) (voice)
as Jim Layton
as Tolbert McCoy
as Herbert Fields
as Capt. George Washington Bellpepper Lee
as Staff Sgt. 'Mac' McKeen
as The Sailor
as Ben Mac Bean
as Brandon Reynolds
as Tex Barton
as Joe Fisher
as Jim Griggs
as Jimmy Holden
as Ens. 'Snake' Gardner
as Jimmy
as Bill
as Ted Scott
as Freddie Bilson
as Roy Connors
as Morrison (uncredited)
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as Story
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as Director
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