Marshall Efron

{{Infobox person

| name = Marshall Efron

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|2|3}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|9|30|1938|2|3}}

| death_place = Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.

| occupation = Actor, humorist

| years_active= 1941–2019

}}

Marshall Efron (February 3, 1938 – September 30, 2019) was an American actor{{cite web|title=Marshall Efron|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/533835/Marshall-Efron/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309003325/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/533835/Marshall-Efron/filmography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2014|archive-date=2014-03-09}} and humorist originally known for his work on the listener-sponsored Pacifica radio stations WBAI New York and KPFK Los Angeles, and later for the PBS television show The Great American Dream Machine (the original showcase of Chevy Chase).

Career

At WBAI, Efron was a frequent guest on Steve Post's & Bob Fass's shows, along with left-wing/counter-culture figures such as Paul Krassner.Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America by Jesse Walker (2004) NYU Press {{ISBN|0-8147-9382-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8147-9382-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=x5JgShfNfaQC&dq=%22Marshall+Efron%22+WBAI&pg=PA77 Google Books] One memorable broadcast had Efron and Krassner filling in for the vacationing Steve Post, and identifying themselves as Columbia University students who had taken the station over as part of the Columbia University protests of 1968. Although regular listeners were very familiar with the voices of Krassner and Efron, many listeners were not. NYPD officers responded three different times during the broadcast in response to reports from listeners who thought the "takeover" was a legitimate event.

Efron also produced features such as A Satirical View.[http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/projects/folios/7203wbai/pdfs/7203wbai.pdf Pacificaradioarchives.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516173516/http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/projects/folios/7203wbai/pdfs/7203wbai.pdf |date=2008-05-16 }}

Marshall Efron was the author of a number of children's works such as Bible Stories You Can't Forget: No Matter How Hard You Try.Bible Stories You Can't Forget: No Matter How Hard You Try (1979) by Marshall Efron, Alfa-Betty Olsen Dutton Juvenile {{ISBN|0-525-26500-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-525-26500-9}}

He also starred in the irregularly scheduled Sunday morning television program Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified, and Painless Sunday School on CBS from 1973 to 1977.{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |title=The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television |date=1997 |publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications |isbn=978-0823083152 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat|url-access=registration |access-date=22 March 2020|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat/page/279 279]}} In this show, Efron played all of the parts, including Adam, Eve, God and the Snake in the Garden of Eden, and the Three Wise Men in the story of Christmas.{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series |date=1985 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1651-2 |page=329}}

Death

Efron died at the age of 81 on September 30, 2019, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.{{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |title=Marshall Efron, Funny Cog in the PBS 'Dream Machine,' Dies at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/arts/television/marshall-efron-dead.html |accessdate=9 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=8 October 2019}}

Filmography

=Animated roles=

The Kwicky Koala Show (1981) - Ratso (voice)
The Smurfs (1982) - Sloppy Smurf (voice)
Shirt Tales (1982) - (voice)
The Biskitts (1983) - Mooch (voice)
Kidd Video (1984-1985) - Fat Cat (voice)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) - Lousy Lizard (voice)
Fluppy Dogs (1986) - Stanley (voice)
The Transformers (1986-1987) - Hun-Gurrr (2nd Head) (voice)
Snorks (1987-1988) - (voice)
Time Squad (2002) - Earl of Sandwich (voice)

=Film roles=

Funnyman (1967) - Sid, Photographer
Pound (1970) - German Shepherd
THX 1138 (1971) - TWA
Doc (1971) - Mexican Bartender
Is There Sex After Death? (1971) - Vince Domino
Dynamite Chicken (1971) - Himself
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) - Bradley
Blade (1973) - Fat man
Baby Blue Marine (1976) - Cook
The Faking of the President (1976) - Donald Segretti
Why Me? (1978, Short) - Nesbit Spoon (voice)
California Dreaming (1979) - Ruben
Shogun Assassin (1980) - (voice)
The First Time (1983) - Nick Rand
Twice Upon a Time - {{Proper name|Synonamess}} Botch (voice)
Bad Manners (1984) - Cab Driver
The Big Bang (1987) - Comrade in Chief (English version, voice)
Talking Walls (1987) - Erwin
The Road to Wellville (1994) - Bartholomew Bookbinder
Cafe Society (1995) - Moe Persky
Two Family House (2000) - Tiny
A Piece of Eden (2000) - Andres
Marie and Bruce (2004) - Ed
Home on the Range (2004) - Larry the Duck (voice)
Robots (2005) - Lamp Post / Toilet Bot / Bass Drum / Microphone (voice)
Valiant (2005) - Additional Voice (voice)
The Thing About My Folks (2005) - Tow Truck Driver
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - Start Dad (voice)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) - Wickersham Guard #1 / The Wickersham Brothers (voice)
City Island (2009) - Actor-Dog
Rob the Mob (2014) - Little Anthony (final film role)