E.G. Marshall

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 E.G. Marshall's work of the 1970s and 1980s includes the role of the straying husband in WoodyActor 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 E.G. Marshall's work of the 1970s and 1980s includes the role of the straying husband in Woody Allen's Interiors (1977), the U.S. President in Superman II (1978) and General Eisenhower in the 1985 TV miniseries War and Remembrance. Continuing to flourish into the 1990s, Marshall was seen in the 1993 TV adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and was cast as Arthur Thurmond on the 1994 medical series Chicago Hope. Radio fans will remember E.G. Marshall as the unctuous host ("Pleasant dreeeaaammms") of the 1970s anthology The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre. Expand

E.G. Marshall's Scores

Average career score: 77
Highest Metascore: 77 Chicago Hope: Season 1
Lowest Metascore: 77 Chicago Hope: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
1 tv review
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
77 Chicago Hope: Season 1 Sep 18, 1994 Dr. Arthur Thurmond / Dr. Arthur Thurmond tbd
tbd The Cosby Show: Season 7 Sep 20, 1990 Stanley Rappaport tbd
tbd The Equalizer: Season 4 Oct 26, 1988 E.G. Marshall / Sen. Blake tbd
tbd Murder, She Wrote: Season 5 Oct 23, 1988 Prof. Walker tbd
tbd Spenser: For Hire: Season 3 Sep 27, 1987 Judge Jason Kingsley tbd
tbd Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985): Season 2 Jan 24, 1987 Charlie Pitt tbd
tbd Ironside: Season 6 Sep 14, 1972 Craig / E.G. Marshall tbd
tbd The Brady Bunch: Season 2 Sep 25, 1970 J.P. Randolph tbd
tbd Route 66: Season 1 Oct 7, 1960 Gerald Emerson tbd
tbd Rawhide: Season 3 Sep 30, 1960 Ben Foley tbd