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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Marlowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Roy Comstock
Birdman of Alcatraz
Colonel Darly
Meet Me in St. Louis
Lloyd Richards
All About Eve
Tom Stevens
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
Rev. Philip Garrison
Elmer Gantry
Hank Entwhistle
Monkey Business
Harold McPherson
Seven Days in May
Grant
How to Steal the World
John Fuller
Garden of Evil
Doc Corozal
Castle of Evil
Rafe Zimmerman
Rawhide
John Hull
13 Frightened Girls
Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately
Twelve O'Clock High
Reverend Watson
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Ray Borden
Illegal
Dr. Russell A. Marvin
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
John Marbey
Mrs. Parkington
Adam Dunn
Night and the City
John Borden
World Without End
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Diplomatic Courier
Capitano Garnett
Bugles in the Afternoon
Joesph I. Murdock
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Robert Masen
Come to the Stable
Lorn Crawford
The Black Whip
Edward Forrest
It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Priest
Between Two Women
Charles Nordeck
The Last Shot You Hear
Stefano Di Gambetta
Casanova's Big Night
Ed Jordan
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Don Miguel Aleondo
Way of a Gaucho
Richard G. Taylor, III
Brilliant Marriage
Younger Jonker
The Jonker Diamond
Jonas Stone
The Long Rope
Colonel Morsby
The Stand at Apache River
Mark Richards
For God and Country
Kenneth
Married Before Breakfast
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
37
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-01-30
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Hugh Herbert Hipple