
Acting
Born November 27, 1925 · Peoria, Illinois, USA
Marshall Thompson (November 27, 1925 – May 18, 1992) was an American film and television actor. He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures. He played quiet, thoughtful teens in Universal's feature films, including a lead opposite singing star Gloria Jean in Reckless Age, earning $350 weekly. During 1946 Universal discharged most of its contract players; that same year Thompson moved to MGM and his film roles steadily increased and improved. Thompson became a freelance actor in the 1950s and worked for various studios on a variety of pictures, including a number of horror and science-fiction features; this included the role of Carruthers in It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), one of the two feature films that would later inspire the plot for director Ridley Scott's 1979 big budget feature film Alien. Thompson also starred as Mel Hunter in the syndicated science fiction TV series World of Giants, about a man who has been miniaturized and must live in a dollhouse. By the 1960s, Thompson's boyish looks had matured and his screen persona became more authoritative. He co-starred with Annie Fargé in the 33-episode CBS sitcom Angel (1960–1961) about an American architect with a charming but scatterbrained French wife, who often got into zany, Lucy Ricardo-esque situations, caused in part by her lack of English; the show was canceled after 33 episodes due to low ratings, despite critical acclaim for French-born newcomer Annie Fargé. In the mid-1960s Thompson starred in CBS's Daktari, a television series about a veterinarian in Africa; the series was based on Thompson's 1965 feature film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion. Later in his career, he appeared in many television episodes and in feature films such as The Turning Point (1977) and The Formula(1980). Thompson was a brother-in-law of actor Richard Long, best known for his role as Jarrod Barkley in ABC's The Big Valley. Thompson's wife, Barbara, was Long's sister. Marshall Thompson died from congestive heart failure at the age of sixty-six in Royal Oak, Michigan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Thompson , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

McBain
1991

Dallas: The Early Years
1986

White Dog
1982

The Formula
1980

Bog
1979

Cruise Into Terror
1978

The Turning Point
1977

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

George
1972

Ride the Tiger
1970

To the Shores of Hell
1966

Around the World Under the Sea
1965

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
1965

Zebra in the Kitchen
1965

The Mighty Jungle
1964

A Yank in Viet-Nam
1964

No Man Is an Island
1962

East of Kilimanjaro
1962

Flight of the Lost Balloon
1961

First Man into Space
1959

The Secret Man
1958

It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958

Fiend Without a Face
1958

Lure of the Swamp
1957

The Blackwell Story
1957

Born to Fight
1956

Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955

To Hell and Back
1955

Cult of the Cobra
1955