Tully Marshall
Tully Marshall (born William Phillips;[1] April 10, 1864 – March 10, 1943) was an American character actor. He had nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience before his debut film appearance in 1914.
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Born | William Phillips April 10, 1864 Nevada City, California, U.S. |
Died | March 10, 1943 78) Encino, California, U.S. | (aged
Years active | 1914–1943 |
Spouse(s) | Marion Fairfax (m.1899) |
Early years
Marshall was born in Nevada City, California. He attended private schools and Santa Clara College,[2] from which he graduated with an engineering degree.[3]
Stage
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Marshall began acting on the stage at 19, appearing in Saratoga at the Winter Garden in San Francisco on March 8, 1883.[2] He played a wide variety of roles on Broadway from 1887. His Broadway credits include The Clever Ones (1914).[4]
For several years, Marshall played with a variety of stock theater troupes, including both acting and being stage manager for E. H. Sothern's company.[2]
In 1909, appearing in Clyde Fitch's drama The City, he was the first actor to say "Goddamn" on Broadway.[5]
Film
In 1914, Marshall arrived in Hollywood. His screen debut was in Paid in Full (1914).[2] By the time D. W. Griffith cast him as the High Priest of Bel in Intolerance (1916), he had already appeared in a number of silent films.
His career continued to thrive during the sound era and he remained busy for the remaining three decades of his life. He played a vast array of drunken trail scouts, lovable grandpas, unforgiving fathers, sinister attorneys and lecherous aristocrats. In one of his last films, This Gun for Hire, he plays a sinister treacherous nitrogen industrialist.
Personal life
Marshall was married to screenwriter and playwright Marion Fairfax.[3]
Death
Marshall died on March 10, 1943, age 78, after a heart attack at his home in Encino, California. His grave is located in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[1]
Filmography
- Paid in Full (1914) - Joe Brooks
- The Sable Lorcha (1915) - Soy
- The Painted Soul (1915)
- Let Katie Do It (1916) - Oliver Putnam
- Martha's Vindication (1916) - Sell Hawkins
- A Child of the Paris Streets (1916) - Jacques Dufrane
- The Devil's Needle (1916) - John Minturn
- Intolerance (1916) - High Priest of Bel / Friend of the Musketeer
- Oliver Twist (1916) - Fagin
- Joan the Woman (1916) - L'Oiseleur
- The Fatal Glass of Beer (1916) - Cousin Henry
- Everybody's Doing It (1916) - Crook
- The Golden Fetter (1917) - Henry Slade
- A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) - Sam Sparks
- Unconquered (1917) - Juke
- The Countess Charming (1917) - Dr. John Cavendish
- The Devil-Stone (1917) - Silas Martin
- A Modern Musketeer (1917) - James Brown
- The Things We Love (1918) - Henry D. Kenwood
- The Whispering Chorus (1918) - F.P. Clumley
- M'Liss (1918) - Judge Joshua McSnagley
- Old Wives for New (1918) - Simcox
- We Can't Have Everything (1918) - The Director
- Bound in Morocco (1918) - Ali Pah Shush
- The Man from Funeral Range (1918) - Frank Beekman
- Too Many Millions (1918) - Artemus Wilkins
- Arizona (1918)
- The Squaw Man (1918) - Sir John Applegate
- Cheating Cheaters (1919) - Ira Lazarre
- Maggie Pepper (1919) - Sam Darkin
- The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) - Cutie's Old Friend
- Daughter of Mine (1919) - Pap Mendelsohn / Lord Noblebrow
- The Lady of Red Butte (1919) - Spanish Ed
- The Crimson Gardenia (1919) - Alfred le Duc
- The Grim Game (1919) - Richard Raver
- Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919) - Langley
- The Lottery Man (1919)
- The Life Line (1919) - Joe Heckett
- Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) - Nitchi
- Everywoman (1919) - Puff
- Double Speed (1920) - Donald McPherson
- Excuse My Dust (1920) - President Mutchler
- The Gift Supreme (1920) - Irving Stagg
- The Dancin' Fool (1920) - Charle Harkins
- Sick Abed (1920) - Chalmers
- The Slim Princess (1920) - Papova
- Honest Hutch (1920) - Thomas Gunnison
- Her Beloved Villain (1920) - Dr. Joseph Poulard
- The Little 'Fraid Lady (1920) - Giron
- What Happened to Rosa (1920) - Percy Peacock
- The Cup of Life (1921) - Chan Chang
- Silent Years (1921) - Captain Longville
- Hail the Woman (1921) - 'Odd Jobs Man'
- Lotus Blossom (1921) - Quong Foo
- Any Night (1922) - Jerry Maguire (The Weasel)
- Penrod (1922) - Mr. Schofield
- The Lying Truth (1922) - Horace Todd
- Too Much Business (1922) - Amos Comby
- Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922) - Amos Saxby
- The Ladder Jinx (1922) - Peter Stalton
- Fools of Fortune (1922) - Scenery Sims
- Without Compromise (1922) - Samuel McAllister
- The Village Blacksmith (1922) - Squire Ezra Brigham
- Good Men and True (1922) - Fite
- The Super Sex (1922) - Mr. Higgins
- Deserted at the Altar (1922) - Squire Simpson
- Only a Shop Girl (1922) - Watkins' Store Manager
- The Marriage Chance (1922) - Timothy Lamb
- The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - Adam Patch
- Dangerous Trails (1923) - Steve Bradley
- The Covered Wagon (1923) - Jim Bridger
- Fools and Riches (1923) - John Dorgan
- Law of the Lawless (1923) - Ali Mechmet
- Temporary Marriage (1923) - Hugh Manners, a lawyer
- The Brass Bottle (1923) - Professor Hamilton
- Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923) - Barney Ryan
- The Barefoot Boy (1923) - Tom Adams
- His Last Race (1923) - Mr. Strong
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - El Rey Luis XI
- Defying Destiny (1923) - Dr. Gregory
- Thundergate (1923) - Suen Tung
- Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923) - Archbishop of Tyre
- The Meanest Man in the World (1923) - Client
- Ponjola (1923) - Count Blauhimel
- The Dangerous Maid (1923) - Simon (the peddler)
- Let's Go (1923) - Ezra Sprowl
- Her Temporary Husband (1923) - John Ingram
- The Stranger (1924) - The Stranger
- Pagan Passions (1924) - Dr. Trask
- The Right of the Strongest (1924) - 'Mister' Sykes
- Hold Your Breath (1924) - Blake
- For Sale (1924) - Harrison Bates
- Passion's Pathway (1924) - Butler
- Along Came Ruth (1924) - Israel Hubbard
- Reckless Romance (1924) - Judge Somers
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924) - Count Mancini
- The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924) - The Spider
- Smouldering Fires (1925) - Scotty
- The Talker (1925) - Henry Fells
- Anything Once (1925)
- The Half-Way Girl (1925) - The Crab
- The Merry Widow (1925) - Baron Sadoja
- The Pace That Thrills (1925) - Hezekiah Sims
- Clothes Make the Pirate (1925) - Scute
- Torrent (1926) - Don Andrés
- Old Loves and New (1926) - Hosein
- Her Big Night (1926) - J.Q. Adams, reporter
- Twinkletoes (1926) - Dad Minasi
- Jim, the Conqueror (1926) - Dave Mahler
- Beware of Widows (1927) - Peter Chadwick
- The Cat and the Canary (1927) - Roger Crosby
- The Gorilla (1927) - William Townsend
- Drums of Love (1928) - Bopi
- Mad Hour (1928) - Lawyer
- The Trail of '98 (1928) - Salvation Jim
- The Perfect Crime (1928) - Frisbie
- Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928) - Avery
- Conquest (1928) - Dr. Gerry
- Queen Kelly (1929) - Jan Vryheid (uncredited)
- Redskin (1929) - Navajo Jim
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) - A Townsman
- Thunderbolt (1929) - Warden
- The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) - Chinese Ambassador (uncredited)
- Skin Deep (1929) - Dr. Bruce Langdon
- The Show of Shows (1929) - Performer in "The Pirate"/Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
- Tiger Rose (1929) - Hector McCollins
- Burning Up (1930) - Dave Gentry
- She Couldn't Say No (1930) - Big John
- Mammy (1930) - Slats
- Under a Texas Moon (1930) - Gus Aldrich
- Redemption (1930) - Artimiev
- Murder Will Out (1930) - Dr. Mansfield
- Numbered Men (1930) - Lemuel Barnes
- Dancing Sweeties (1930) - Pa Cleaver
- Common Clay (1930) - W.H. Yates
- The Big Trail (1930) - Zeke
- One Night at Susie's (1930) - Buckeye Bill
- Tom Sawyer (1930) - Muff Potter
- Fighting Caravans (1931) - Jim Bridger
- The Virtuous Husband (1931) - Ezra Hunniwell
- The Millionaire (1931) - Briggs
- The Unholy Garden (1931) - Baron de Jonghe
- Broken Lullaby (1932) - Gravedigger (uncredited)
- The Hatchet Man (1932) - Long Sen Yat
- The Beast of the City (1932) - Michaels
- Arséne Lupin (1932) - Gaston Gourney-Martin
- Scarface (1932) - Managing Editor
- Scandal for Sale (1932) - Simpkins
- Grand Hotel (1932) - Gerstenkorn
- Night Court (1932) - Grogan
- Strangers of the Evening (1932) - Robert Daniels
- Two-Fisted Law (1932) - Sheriff Malcolm
- The Hurricane Express (1932, 12-part serial) - Howard Edwards
- The Hollywood Handicap (1932, Short) - Minor Role
- Exposure (1932) - John Ward
- Klondike (1932) - Editor Hinman
- The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) - Slick
- Red Dust (1932) - "Mac" McQuarg, overseer
- Afraid to Talk (1932) - District Attorney. Anderson
- Night of Terror (1933) - Richard Rinehart
- Corruption (1933) - Gorman
- Fighting with Kit Carson (1933) - Jim Bridge [Chs. 1-2]
- Laughing at Life (1933) - Stone
- Massacre (1934) - Jake
- Murder on the Blackboard (1934) - Mr. MacFarland
- Black Fury (1935) - Poole
- Diamond Jim (1935) - Minister
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - Woodcutter
- California Straight Ahead! (1937) - Harrison
- Souls at Sea (1937) - Pecora
- She Asked for It (1937) - Old Man Stettin
- Stand-In (1937) - Fowler Pettypacker
- That Navy Spirit (1937) - The 'Admiral'
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938) - Morton Ross
- A Yank at Oxford (1938) - Cephas
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) - Monelle
- Making the Headlines (1938) - Stuart Hackett
- College Swing (1938) - Grandpa Alden (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss (1938) - Mr. Lazarus - Travel Customer (uncredited)
- The Kid from Texas (1939) - Adam Lambert
- Blue Montana Skies (1939) - Steve
- Invisible Stripes (1939) - Old Peter
- Brigham Young (1940) - Judge
- Youth Will Be Served (1940) - Rufus Britt
- Go West (1940) - Dan Wilson (uncredited)
- Chad Hanna (1940) - Mr. Mott
- For Beauty's Sake (1941) - Julius H. Pringle
- Sergeant York (1941) - Uncle Lige (uncredited)
- Ball of Fire (1941) - Prof. Robinson
- This Gun for Hire (1942) - Alvin Brewster
- Moontide (1942) - Mr. Simpson
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) - Grandpa
- Behind Prison Walls (1943) - James J. MacGlennon
- Hitler's Madman (1943) - Teacher (uncredited) (final film)
Stage plays
- Because She Loved Him So (1899)
- Sky Farm (1902)
- Hearts Aflame (1902)
- The Best of Friends (1903)
- An African Millionaire (1904)
- Just Out of College (1905)
- The Stolen Story (1906)
- The Builders (1907)
- Paid in Full (1908)
- The City (1910)
- The Talker (1912)
- The Girl and the Pennant (1913)
- The House of Bondage (1914)
- The Clever Ones (1915)
- The Trap (1915)
References
- Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set). McFarland. p. 481. ISBN 9780786479924. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- Lowrey, Carolyn (1920). The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen. Moffat, Yard. pp. 112-113. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
Tully Marshall.
- Katchmer, George A. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. p. 234. ISBN 9781476609058. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- "("Tully Marshall" search results)". Playbill Vault. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- Saying it facing the audience would have been too shocking for the era – Marshall had to turn his back.
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