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Tully Marshall

{{Short description|American actor (1864–1943)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Tully Marshall

| image = Tully Marshall in Fighting Caravans.jpg

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| caption = Marshall in Fighting Caravans (1931)

| birth_name = William Phillips

| birth_date = {{birth date|1864|04|10}}

| birth_place = Nevada City, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|03|10|1864|04|10}}

| death_place = Encino, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Hollywood Forever Cemetery

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1883–1943

| spouse = {{marriage|Marion Fairfax|1899}}

| children =

| alma_mater = Santa Clara University

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Tully Marshall (born William Phillips;{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set)|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786479924|page=481|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22William+Phillips%22+actor+OR+Marshall&pg=PA481|access-date=30 November 2016|language=en}} 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 which led to a film career spanning almost three decades.

Early years

Marshall was born in Nevada City, California. He attended private schools and Santa Clara College,{{cite book|last1=Lowrey|first1=Carolyn|title=The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen|date=1920|publisher=Moffat, Yard|pages=[https://archive.org/details/firstonehundred00lowrgoog/page/n126 112]-113|url=https://archive.org/details/firstonehundred00lowrgoog|quote=Tully Marshall.|access-date=30 November 2016|language=en}} from which he graduated with an engineering degree.{{cite book|last1=Katchmer|first1=George A.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|date=2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|page=234|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Tully+Marshall%22&pg=PA234|access-date=1 December 2016|language=en}}

Stage

File:The devils needle-scene-1916.jpg (1916) with Howard Gaye, Tully Marshall, Norma Talmadge and Marguerite Marsh]]

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Marshall began acting on the stage at 18, appearing in Saratoga at the Winter Garden in San Francisco on March 8, 1883. He played a wide variety of roles on Broadway from 1887. His Broadway credits include The Clever Ones (1914).{{cite web|title=("Tully Marshall" search results)|url=http://www.playbill.com/searchpage/search?q=Tully%20Marshall&shows=on&qasset=00000150-ac7c-d16d-a550-ec7e6fcd0004&|website=Playbill Vault|access-date=1 December 2016}}

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.

Film

File:Tully Marshall in The Merry Widow.jpg (1925)]]

In 1914, Marshall arrived in Hollywood. His screen debut was in Paid in Full (1914). 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. He is arguably most widely known today for his portrayal of John Wayne's sidekick in the lavish widescreen epic Western The Big Trail (1930) directed by Raoul Walsh, shot on location all across the American West, and starring Wayne in his first leading role. In one of Marshall's last films, This Gun for Hire (1942) starring Alan Ladd, he played a treacherously sinister nitrogen industrialist.

Personal life

Marshall was married to screenwriter, playwright, actress and head of her own studio Marion Fairfax from 1899 to his death in 1943. Fairfax died in 1970 at age 94.

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.

Filmography

File:The Slim Princess 1920.jpg in The Slim Princess (1920)]]

File:Along Came Ruth (1924) 1.jpg (1924)]]

File:The Big Trail (publicity photo - Marshall & Churchill).jpg in The Big Trail (1930)]]

File:The Big Trail lobby card (2).jpg in The Big Trail (1930)]]

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File:The Big Trail lobby card (6).jpg in The Big Trail (1930)]]

File:Fighting Caravans (1931) 2.jpg, Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, and Marshall in Fighting Caravans (1931)]]

File:Ball of Fire2.jpg in Ball of Fire (1941)]]

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Stage plays

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  • 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)

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References

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External links

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  • {{IMDb name|0551222}}
  • [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/10357/tully-marshall Literature on Tully Marshall]

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Category:1864 births

Category:1943 deaths

Category:Male actors from California

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male silent film actors

Category:American theatre directors

Category:American theatre managers and producers

Category:Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Category:People from Nevada City, California

Category:19th-century American male actors

Category:American male stage actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Male Western (genre) film actors