Hugh Marlowe

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Hugh Marlowe

Marlowe (center) as Ellery Queen with Santos Ortega and Marian Shockley in The Adventures of Ellery Queen, 1939.
Born Hugh Herbert Hipple
(1911-01-30)January 30, 1911
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died May 2, 1982(1982-05-02) (aged 71)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Years active 1936-1982
Spouse(s) Edith Atwater (divorced 1946)
K. T. Stevens (1946-68) 2 sons
Rosemary Torri (1968-82) 1 child
Children Chris Marlowe
Jeffrey Marlowe

Hugh Marlowe (January 30, 1911 – May 2, 1982) was an American film, television, stage and radio actor.

Biography

Marlowe was born Hugh Herbert Hipple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began his stage career in the 1930s at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Marlowe was usually a secondary lead or supporting actor in the films he appeared in.

His films included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), All About Eve (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Rawhide (1951), Howard Hawks' Monkey Business (1952), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Elmer Gantry (1960), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964).

Marlowe plays a real person, the Reverend William Hyde, in the 1956 episode "Dig or Die, Brother Hyde" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. Hyde was an itinerant prairie preacher who in the story line employs psychology to restore a woman's faith and to save her child's life. His co-stars in the episode are Alan Hale, Jr., Denver Pyle, and Ray Teal.[1] In the unusually titled 1957 episode, "Jhonakehunkga Called Jim", set in 1883, Marlowe plays the Reverend Jacob Stucki, who is dispatched to the mission at the Winnebago reservation. The Indians, however, scorn the clergyman, who befriends a boy in an effort to prove his sincerity. Pat Hogan plays Jhonakehunkga, and Frank de Kova is cast as Black Hawk.[2]

Marlowe made six guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. Among those roles, he was cast as District Attorney and Perry's client Brander Harris in "The Case of the Fraudulent Foto," (1959) and as murder victim Cmdr. James Page in "The Case of the Slandered Submarine" (1960). He also played murder victim Ernest Stone in "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew" (1963), and murderer Guy Munford in "The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner" (1965).

Marlowe also appeared as Donald Burton, a newspaper reporter, on a 1965 episode of Hazel titled "Hazel's Day in Court."

Marlowe was also a regular on the NBC television daytime drama, Another World, the last of four actors to portray the Matthews family patriarch, Jim Matthews, from 1969 until Marlowe's death in 1982 from a heart attack at the age of seventy-one.

Because of his starring roles in two science fiction films, he is sometimes compared to Richard Carlson. (They were born one year apart.)

Personal life

Marlowe was married three times:

  • Actress Edith Atwater (divorced 1946)
  • Actress K. T. Stevens (1946–1968) had two sons with Marlowe.
  • Rosemary Tory (1968–1982) had one child with Marlowe.

Partial filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Dig or Die, Brother Hyde". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved February 15, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Jhonakehunkga Called Jim", April 26, 1957". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved February 15, 2013. 

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