Tully Marshall
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William Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.
's drama The City) he was the first actor to say "Goddamn" on Broadway. (Saying it facing the audience would have been too shocking for the era - Marshall had to turn his back.)
In 1914 he arrived in Hollywood where he made an immediate impact; by the time D.W. Griffith cast him as the High Priest of Bel in Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, (1916) he had already appeared in a number of silents.
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. Marshall was married to screenwriter and playwright Marion Fairfax
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He died on the 10th of March 1943 after a heart attack at his home in Encino, California aged 78. His grave is located in Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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Career
Marshall began acting on the stage at 19, and played a wide variety of roles on Broadway from 1887. In 1902 (appearing in Clyde FitchClyde Fitch
Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
's drama The City) he was the first actor to say "Goddamn" on Broadway. (Saying it facing the audience would have been too shocking for the era - Marshall had to turn his back.)
In 1914 he arrived in Hollywood where he made an immediate impact; by the time D.W. Griffith cast him as the High Priest of Bel in Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, (1916) he had already appeared in a number of silents.
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. Marshall was married to screenwriter and playwright Marion Fairfax
Marion Fairfax
Marion Fairfax was an American screenwriter and Broadway playwright.Born as Marion Neiswanger in Richmond, Virginia, her best known credit was the screenplay for The Lost World . She was married to actor Tully Marshall from 1899 until his death in 1943...
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He died on the 10th of March 1943 after a heart attack at his home in Encino, California aged 78. His grave is located in Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, originally called Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California. It is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood...
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Partial Filmography
- This Gun for HireThis Gun for HireThis Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene. The film stars Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd.-Plot:...
(1942) - Sergeant YorkSergeant YorkSergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
(1941) - Ball of FireBall of FireBall of Fire is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The RKO Pictures film is about a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge...
(1941) - Invisible StripesInvisible StripesInvisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film about a gangster unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay by Warren Duff was based on the novel of the same name by Warden...
(1939) - A Yank at OxfordA Yank at OxfordA Yank at Oxford is a 1938 British film, directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios...
(1938) - Souls at SeaSouls at SeaSouls at Sea is a 1937 seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. The title of this film was spoofed in the Laurel and Hardy...
(1937) - California Straight Ahead!California Straight Ahead!California Straight Ahead! is a 1937 film about truck drivers starring John Wayne and directed by Arthur Lubin. The action movie features a memorable cross-country race between trucks and trains.-Cast:* John Wayne as Biff Smith...
(1937) - Arsene Lupin Returns (1936)
- A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna Mae Oliver. It was directed by Jack...
(1935) - The Hurricane ExpressThe Hurricane ExpressThe Hurricane Express is a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures film serial that stars John Wayne as airplane pilot Larry Baker, who goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker," the man responsible for a train crash that killed his father.-Cast:...
(1932) serial - Grand HotelGrand Hotel (film)Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum...
(1932) - Red DustRed DustRed Dust is an American 1932 romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together and was produced during the Pre-Code era of Hollywood...
(1932) - ScarfaceScarface (1932 film)Scarface is a 1932 American gangster film starring Paul Muni and George Raft, produced by Howard Hughes, directed by Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson, and written by Ben Hecht based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Armitage Trail...
(1932) - Two-Fisted LawTwo-Fisted LawTwo-Fisted Law is a 1932 American B romantic western film directed by D. Ross Lederman. The film stars Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Wheeler Oakman, Tully Marshall, Wallace MacDonald and John Wayne.-Plot:...
(1932) - The Beast of the CityThe Beast of the CityThe Beast of the City is a 1932 pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes and known for its singularly vicious ending. Written by W.R...
(1932) - Arsene LupinArsène LupinArsène Lupin is a fictional character who appears in a book series of detective fiction / crime fiction novels written by French writer Maurice Leblanc, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television such as Night Hood, stage play and comic book adaptations.- Overview :A...
(1932) - The Cabin in the CottonThe Cabin in the CottonThe Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll....
(1931) - The Unholy GardenThe Unholy Garden (1931 film)The Unholy Garden is a 1931 drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Ronald Colman. It was based on a story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. -Plot:...
(1931) - She Couldn't Say NoShe Couldn't Say No (1930 film)She Couldn't Say No is a musical drama that stars Winnie Lightner, fresh from her success in Gold Diggers of Broadway . It was adapted from a play by Benjamin M. Kaye...
(1930) - Tom SawyerTom Sawyer (1930 film)Tom Sawyer is a 1930 American drama film directed by John Cromwell. The screenplay by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, and Sam Mintz is based on the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain....
(1930) - The Big TrailThe Big TrailThe Big Trail is a lavish early widescreen movie shot on location across the American West starring John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh....
(1930) - The Bridge of San Luis ReyThe Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929 film)The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in both silent and part-talkie versions. The was film directed by Charles Brabin and starred Lili Damita and Don Alvarado...
(1929) - Queen KellyQueen KellyQueen Kelly is the title of an American silent film produced in 1928-29 and released in 1929, originally by United Artists. The film was directed by Erich von Stroheim, starred Gloria Swanson in the title role, and also starred Walter Byron and Seena Owen. It was produced by Joseph P...
(1929)
- Alias Jimmy ValentineAlias Jimmy ValentineAlias Jimmy Valentine is a 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. It is sourced from the O. Henry story,A Retrieved Reformation which was turned into the 1910 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong. The...
(1928) - The Cat and the CanaryThe Cat and the Canary (1927 film)The Cat and the Canary is an American silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play of the same name. Directed by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni, the film stars Laura La Plante as Annabelle West, Forrest Stanley as Charles "Charlie" Wilder, and Creighton Hale as...
(1927) - Jim, the ConquerorJim, the Conqueror-Cast:* William Boyd as Jim Burgess* Elinor Fair as Polly Graydon* Walter Long as Hank Milford* Tully Marshall as Dave Mahler* Tom Santschi as Sam Black* Marcelle Corday as Judy...
(1926) - The Merry WidowThe Merry Widow (1925 film)The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent MGM romantic drama film and black comedy directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. The film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert and Roy D'Arcy. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable had uncredited roles in the film....
(1925) - Clothes Make the PirateClothes Make the PirateClothes Make the Pirate is a 1925 silent film starring Leon Errol and Dorothy Gish. The 90-minute silent adventure movie was written by Marion Fairfax from the novel by Holman Francis Day and directed by Maurice Tourneur...
(1925) - He Who Gets SlappedHe Who Gets SlappedHe Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is based on the Russian play Тот, кто получает пощёчины by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in 1922...
(1924) - The Hunchback of Notre DameThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American film directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. It stars Lon Chaney, Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Brulier, Brandon Hurst. The film is the second most famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel,...
(1923) - Good Men and TrueGood Men and TrueGood Men and True is a 1922 silent Western film starring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey - J. Wesley Pringle* Vola Vale - Georgie Hibbler* Thomas Jefferson - Simon Hibbler* Noah Beery - S.S. Thorpe* Charles Le Moyne - Bowerman...
(1922) - The Village BlacksmithThe Village Blacksmith (film)The Village Blacksmith is a 1922 drama film directed by John Ford. One of the eight reels survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and therefore the film is considered to be lost. It was adapted from the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.-Cast:* Will Walling - John...
(1922) - PenrodPenrodPenrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to Tom Sawyer...
(1922) - Hail the WomanHail the WomanHail the Woman is a 1921 John Griffith Wray silent, drama-genre film. A Thomas Ince production. A Library of Congress copy of this film is listed as incomplete, September 1, 1977.-Synopsis:...
(1921) - The Grim GameThe Grim GameThe Grim Game is a 1919 silent film starring Harry Houdini. The film's basic plotline serves as a showcase for Houdini's talent as an escapologist, stunt performer and aviator.-Plot:...
(1919) - The Squaw ManThe Squaw Man (1918 film)The Squaw Man is a 1918 Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of DeMille's 1914 film of the same name. It would be remade again by DeMille in 1931...
(1918) - Old Wives for NewOld Wives for NewOld Wives for New is a 1918 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Prints of the film survive at the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.-Cast:* Elliott Dexter - Charles Murdock* Florence Vidor - Juliet Raeburn...
(1918) - We Can't Have EverythingWe Can't Have EverythingWe Can't Have Everything is a 1918 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Kathlyn Williams - Charity Coe Cheever* Elliott Dexter - Jim Dyckman* Wanda Hawley - Kedzie Thropp* Sylvia Breamer - Zada L'Etoile...
(1918) - The Whispering ChorusThe Whispering ChorusThe Whispering Chorus is a 1918 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.-Cast:* Raymond Hatton - John Tremble* Kathlyn Williams - Jane Tremble* Edythe Chapman - John Tremble's mother* Elliott Dexter - George Coggeswell* Noah Beery - Longshoreman...
(1918) - A Romance of the RedwoodsA Romance of the Redwoods__notoc__A Romance of the Redwoods is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford.A print of the film survives in the film archive at George Eastman House.-Cast:* Mary Pickford as Jenny Lawrence...
(1917) - The Devil-StoneThe Devil-StoneThe Devil-Stone is a 1917 romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process ....
(1917) - Joan the WomanJoan the WomanJoan the Woman is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc.It was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process for certain scenes...
(1917) - Everybody's Doing ItEverybody's Doing ItEverybody's Doing It is a 1916 short comedy film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Howard Gaye - Society gentleman* Tully Marshall - Crook* Violet Radcliffe* Georgie Stone* Lilian Webster - Young woman...
(1916) - The Fatal Glass of BeerThe Fatal Glass of Beer (1916 film)The Fatal Glass of Beer is a 1916 short comedy film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Jack Brammall - John* Elmo Lincoln* Tully Marshall - Cousin Henry* Teddy Sampson - Nell...
(1916) - Intolerance (1916)
Stageplays
- The Trap (1915)
- The Clever Ones (1915)
- The House of Bondage (1914)
- The Girl and the Pennant (1913)
- The Talker (1912)
- The City (1910)
- Paid in Full (1908)
- The Builders (1907)
- The Stolen Story (1906)
- Just Out of College (1905)
- An African Millionaire (1904)
- The Best of Friends (1903)
- Hearts Aflame (1902)
- Sky Farm (1902)
- Because She Loved Him So (1899)