Hugh Marlowe

from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Artwork for Elmer GantryImage of 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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Timeline

1969Aged 58

  • Poster for The Last Shot You Hear

    Charles Nordeck

1968Aged 57

  • Poster for The Movie Orgy

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for How to Steal the World

    Grant

1966Aged 55

  • Poster for Castle of Evil

    Doc Corozal

1964Aged 53

  • Poster for Seven Days in May

    Harold McPherson

1963Aged 52

  • Poster for 13 Frightened Girls

    John Hull

1962Aged 51

  • Poster for Birdman of Alcatraz

    Roy Comstock

1961Aged 50

  • Poster for The Long Rope

    Jonas Stone

1960Aged 49

  • Poster for Elmer Gantry

    Rev. Philip Garrison

1956Aged 45

  • Poster for World Without End

    John Borden

  • Poster for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    Dr. Russell A. Marvin

  • Poster for The Black Whip

    Lorn Crawford

1955Aged 44

  • Poster for Illegal

    Ray Borden

1954Aged 43

  • Poster for Casanova's Big Night

    Stefano Di Gambetta

  • Poster for Garden of Evil

    John Fuller

1953Aged 42

  • Poster for The Stand at Apache River

    Colonel Morsby

1952Aged 41

  • Poster for Bugles in the Afternoon

    Capitano Garnett

  • Poster for Diplomatic Courier

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

    Ed Jordan

  • Poster for Monkey Business

    Hank Entwhistle

  • Poster for Way of a Gaucho

    Don Miguel Aleondo

1951Aged 40

  • Poster for Rawhide

    Rafe Zimmerman

  • Poster for Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

    Reverend Watson

  • Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still

    Tom Stevens

1950Aged 39

  • Poster for Night and the City

    Adam Dunn

  • Poster for All About Eve

    Lloyd Richards

1949Aged 38

  • Poster for Come to the Stable

    Robert Masen

  • Poster for Twelve O'Clock High

    Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately

1944Aged 33

  • Poster for Marriage Is a Private Affair

    Joesph I. Murdock

  • Poster for Mrs. Parkington

    John Marbey

  • Poster for Meet Me in St. Louis

    Colonel Darly

1943Aged 32

  • Poster for For God and Country

    Mark Richards

1937Aged 26

  • Poster for Married Before Breakfast

    Kenneth

  • Poster for Between Two Women

    Priest

1936Aged 25

  • Poster for Brilliant Marriage

    Richard G. Taylor, III

  • Poster for The Jonker Diamond

    Younger Jonker

  • Poster for It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)

    Edward Forrest