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Dallas: The Early Years

as Dr. Ted Johnson

1986
The Formula

as Geologist #1

1980
Bog

as Dr. Brad Wednesday

1979
The Turning Point

as Carter

1977
Daktari

as Dr. Marsh Tracy

1966
Around the World Under the Sea

as Dr. Orin Hillyard

1966
To the Shores of Hell

as Maj. Greg Donahue

1966
Year of the Tiger

as Maj. Benson

1964
No Man Is an Island

as Jonn Sonnenberg

1962
Angel

as Johnny Smith

1960
First Man into Space

as Cmdr. Charles Ernest Prescott

1959
Fiend Without a Face

as Major Jeff Cummings

1958
Lure of the Swamp

as Simon Lewt

1957
To Hell and Back

as Johnson

1955
Crashout

as Billy Lang

1955
Cult of the Cobra

as Tom Markel

1955
The Caddy

as Bruce Reeber

1953
The Tall Target

as Lance Beaufort

1951
Mystery Street

as Henry Shanway

1950
Devil's Doorway

as Rod MacDougall

1950
Dial 1119

as Gunther Wyckoff

1950
Battleground

as Jim Layton

1949
Roseanna McCoy

as Tolbert McCoy

1949
Words and Music

as Herbert Fields

1948
B.F.'s Daughter

as The Sailor

1948
Homecoming

as Staff Sgt. 'Mac' McKeen

1948
The Romance of Rosy Ridge

as Ben Mac Bean

1947
Marshall Thompson Marshall Thompson

Birthday

1925-11-27

Place of Birth

Peoria, Illinois, USA

Biography

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.
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