Tully Marshall

MINI BIO:

American actor with straggly brown hair, a fine purveyor of dissipated evil and something of a rival to Lon Chaney in silent days as Hollywood's man of many faces. Originally intending to be a lawyer, he started acting on stage at 19 and played a wide variety of roles on Broadway from 1887. Marshall came to Hollywood at 50 and stayed for the remaining three decades of his life, his Fagin in Oliver Twist and high priest in Intolerance (both 1916) setting him up for a whole run of sometimes quite frightening deviants in silent films, culminating in his shuddery portrait of Gloria Swanson's lecherous uncle in Queen Kelly. He was often reduced to grizzled old-timers in sound films, but produced another memorable portrait at 78 as the fifth columnist Brewster in This Gun for Hire. Died from heart and lung problems.