Frank Marlowe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frank Marlowe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frank Marlowe, also known as Frank Riggi and Frank Marlo (January 20,

1904 â€" March 30, 1964) was an American character actor from the

1930s until the 1960s. During Marlowe's 30-year career he would appear

in over 200 feature films, as well as dozens of television shows.Born

on January 20, 1904 in Massachusetts, he entered the film industry in

the early 1930s; while some sources have him in films as early as

1931, the American Film Institute has his earliest film appearance in

Howard Hawk's 1934 film, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore

and Carole Lombard.Marlowe's prolific film career involved small roles

in many notable films. Some of those films include: the 1935 John Ford

comedy, The Whole Town's Talking, starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean

Arthur; Howard Hawk's classic romantic comedy, Bringing Up Baby

(1938), starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn; 1940's My Favorite

Wife, againg starring Grant, this time with Irene Dunne; the two

classic biopics One Foot in Heaven (1941), starring Fredric March and

Martha Scott, and Sergeant York (1941) starring Gary Cooper; Alfred

Hitchcock's 1942 thriller, Saboteur, with Robert Cummings and

Priscilla Lane; the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh, starring Frank

Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Kathryn Grayson; 1942's Bob Hope and Bing

Crosby buddy film, Road to Utopia; the 1942 Danny Kaye vehicle, The

Kid from Brooklyn, which also stars Virginia Mayo; Michael Curtiz's

classic biopic of Cole Porter, Night and Day (1946), starring Cary

Grant and Alexis Smith; Hitchcock's 1946 thriller, Notorious, with

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains; The Secret Life of

Walter Mitty (1947), again starring Kaye and Mayo; and the 1948

classic swashbuckler, The Three Musketeers, starring Gene Kelly, Lana

Turner and an all-star cast.The 1950s would see Marlowe continue his

numerous film appearances, while he would also branch out into the new

medium of television. Notable films in which he appeared during the

decade include: Joan of Arc (1950), starring Ingrid Bergman; 1951's

Flying Leathernecks, starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan; Trouble

Along the Way (1953), another Wayne film, this time also starring

Donna Reed and Charles Coburn; the classic 1954 version of A Star Is

Born, with James Mason and Judy Garland; Otto Preminger's classic

drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), starring Sinatra, Eleanor

Parker, and Kim Novak; Joanne Woodward's tour de force in The Three

Faces of Eve (1957). Although the Internet Movie Database has him

appearing in two films in 1961, AFI has his final film appearance as

one of the taxi drivers in Hitchcock's classic thriller North by

Northwest in 1959, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James

Mason. Interspersed with his film performances, Marlowe would make

dozens of television appearances. His TV work included guest roles on:

The Abbott and Costello Show, Adventures of Superman, The Millionaire,

Dragnet, Perry Mason, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Frank Marlowe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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