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

All About Eve

as Lloyd Richards

The Day the Earth Stood Still

as Tom Stevens

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Colonel Darly

Birdman of Alcatraz

as Roy Comstock

Monkey Business

as Hank Entwhistle

Night and the City

as Adam Dunn

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Harold Skinner

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Rev. Richard Fell

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as District Attorney Bernard Butler

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Baxter