Tully Marshall
Tully Marshall (actually William Phillips; born April 10, 1864 in Nevada City, California, † March 10, 1943 in Encino, California ) was an American actor. In his 60 -year career, the versatile character actor was in both the theater and the film successfully.
Life and career
Tully Marshall initially wanted to pursue a career in the judiciary. While studying at the Santa Clarita University, he participated in an acting class and changed his career aspirations. He began his acting career at age 19 in San Francisco. 1887, Marshall moved to New York, where he was a strolling player and the latest from 1893 also appeared in a Broadway. In total he played until 1915 in about 15 Broadway plays. He then transferred to the silent movie to Hollywood, where he gave his film debut in 1914.
Tully Marshall's first -known role was the high priest of Bel in Babylon episode of David Wark Griffith's monumental epic Intolerance ( 1916), of plotting against his king and so helping to bring the king to case. He showed great versatility and embodied in the course of his film career a variety of figures. He has played the role of Fagin in an early adaptation of Charles Dickens and embodied an old Westerner in The Caravan by James Cruze. In the silent film classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame from 1923 he played on the side of Lon Chaney senior the French King Louis XI .. One of his most provocative roles he had in the film version of the operetta The Merry Widow, where his old and rich Baron Sadoja a Foot Worship has.
The leap to talkies end of the 1920s succeeded Marshall without problems, he remained a busy and respected supporting actor. In 1932 he played in the gangster classic Scarface a newspaper editor, the same year he played a friendly plantation overseer in Indochina in Liebesmelodram jungle by storm and was part of the all-star cast in the Oscar-winning drama people at the hotel. In his later films Marshall embodied often respectable figures such as grandfathers, professors, or judges. He worked until his death year as a film actor and so came to almost 200 film appearances in a 60-year acting career.
Tully Marshall died in 1943 a month before his 79th birthday of a heart attack. From 1899 until his death he was with the stage and screenwriter Marion Fairfax ( 1875-1970 ) married. The grave of him and Marion is located at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.