Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall ( * May 23, 1890 in London, † January 22, 1966 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles; actually Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall) was a British film and stage actor.
Life
Marshall grew up in a theatrical family, but initially did not plan, even embark on the stage career. After completing his schooling at St. Mary 's College in Harlow ( Essex ), he worked as an accountant in a public company in Brighton. He turned to acting, as this work it was too boring. In 1911, he was seen for the first time on a stage. Marshall served in the First World War, in which he was severely wounded and lost a leg. Despite this handicap, he continued to go after the acting profession, playing with a prosthesis without visible impairments.
On stage he played in comedies and dramas, along with his partner Edna Best, the first of his five wives and mother his daughter Sarah Marshall. In 1927 he made his film debut in Herbert Wilcox's silent film Mumsie. In 1929 he received a contract with Paramount, his first sound film The Letter was founded in the same year. In the play by Somerset Maugham, he joined then again in 1940, but in a different role. In 1932, Marshall played in Hollywood. He was often seen alongside major female stars of the studios, so on the side of Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932 ), as a jewel thief in Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932 ), next to Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934 ), Katharine Hepburn in a rebellious girl (1936) and alongside Bette Davis in The little Foxes ( 1941). Marshall played in two films by Alfred Hitchcock (murder - Sir John intervenes and the foreign correspondent! ), 1952 he was in a supporting role of Otto Preminger's film noir angel face on the side of Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons to see. In the 50s and 60s, he also starred in TV films.