Hugh Marlowe
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-01-30
Day of Death
1982-05-02 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Hugh Marlowe
Biography
Hugh Marlowe (January 30, 1911 – May 2, 1982) was an American film, television, stage and radio actor.
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), 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 was also a regular on the daytime television soap opera, Another World, the last of four actors to portray Matthews family patriarch Jim Matthews, from 1969 until his death from a heart attack, at age 71, in 1982.
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Known For
Acting
(1969)
The Last Shot You Hear
as Charles Nordeck
(1968)
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
(1968)
How to Steal the World
as Grant
(1966)
Castle of Evil
as Doc Corozal
(1964)
Seven Days in May
as Harold McPherson
(1963)
13 Frightened Girls
as John Hull
(1962)
Birdman of Alcatraz
as Roy Comstock
(1961)
The Long Rope
as Jonas Stone
(1960)
Elmer Gantry
as Rev. Philip Garrison
(1956)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
as Dr. Russell A. Marvin
(1956)
World Without End
as John Borden
(1956)
The Black Whip
as Lorn Crawford
(1955)
Illegal
as Ray Borden
(1954)
Garden of Evil
as John Fuller
(1954)
Casanova's Big Night
as Stefano Di Gambetta
(1953)
The Stand at Apache River
as Colonel Morsby
(1952)
Monkey Business
as Hank Entwhistle
(1952)
Diplomatic Courier
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1952)
Way of a Gaucho
as Don Miguel Aleondo
(1952)
Bugles in the Afternoon
as Capitano Garnett
(1952)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
as Ed Jordan
(1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
as Tom Stevens
(1951)
Rawhide
as Rafe Zimmerman
(1951)
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
as Reverend Watson
(1950)
Night and the City
as Adam Dunn
(1950)
All About Eve
as Lloyd Richards
(1949)
Twelve O'Clock High
as Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately
(1949)
Come to the Stable
as Robert Masen
(1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Colonel Darly
(1944)
Mrs. Parkington
as John Marbey
(1944)
Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Joesph I. Murdock
(1943)
For God and Country
as Mark Richards
(1937)
Between Two Women
as Priest
(1937)
Married Before Breakfast
as Kenneth
(1936)
It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
as Edward Forrest
(1936)
Brilliant Marriage
as Richard G. Taylor, III
(1936)
The Jonker Diamond
as Younger Jonker