Marshall Reed

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Marshall Reed
Photo courtesy of B-Westerns.com
Born	Marshall Jewel Reed May 28, 1917(1917-05-28) Englewood, Colorado
Died	April 15, 1980(1980-04-15) (aged 62) Los Angeles, California
Years active	1943 - 1978

Marshall Reed (May 28, 1917 – April 15, 1980) was an American supporting actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1943 and 1978. He was born in Englewood, Colorado.

Career

Following his high school graduation Reed worked in a number of jobs before entering Hollywood, serving as a mail clerk, addressograph operator, meter reader, bookkeeper, department store clerk, and horse trainer. He started his cinematography career in Bordertown Gun Fighters, a 1943 western starred by the rugged hero Wild Bill Elliott.

An excellent and athletic stuntman, as well, Reed handled perfectly much of his own fight and riding. Over the years, he found himself doing dozens of westerns and cliffhangers serials for Columbia and Republic studios, in which he usually cast as one of the blackhearted action heavies in the most brutal of ways. Nevertheless, he appeared in a rare sympathetic role as the notorious soldier and hunter Buffalo Bill Cody in the 1954 serial Riding with Buffalo Bill, suggesting he could play a wide range of roles.

Between the 1950s and 1970s, Reed became a familiar face in popular TV-series, particularly in the action and drama genres. In 1978 he costarred Till Death, his last film appearance.

Marshall Reed died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.

Selected appearances

Films

• Law Men (1944)
• Gun Smoke (1945)
• Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946)
• Angel and the Badman (1947)
• Stampede (1949)
• Night Raiders (1952)
• The Night the World Exploded (1957)
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
• The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

Serials

• The Tiger Woman (1944)
• Haunted Harbor (1944)
• Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
• Blackhawk (1952)
• Ghost of Zorro (1949)
• Pirates of the High Seas (1950)
• Mysterious Island (1951)
• Son of Geronimo (1952)
• The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (1953)
• Gunfighters of the Northwest (1954)
• Riding with Buffalo Bill (1954)

TV shows

• The Marshal of Gunsight Pass (1950)
• The Gene Autry Show (1950–54)
• The Cisco Kid (1950–55)
• The Range Rider (1951–53)
• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–54)
• Boston Blackie (1951)
• Hopalong Cassidy (1952–53)
• The Adventures of Kit Carson (1952–54)
• The Lone Ranger (1952–55)
• Adventures of Superman (1953–54)
• Annie Oakley (1954)
• The Lineup (1954–59)
• Captain Midnight (1955)
• Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1955)
• Tightrope (1960)
• Bat Masterson (1960)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960)
• Ripcord (1961)
• Lassie (1961)
• Bonanza (1961–62)
• Lawman (1962)
• Bronco (1962)
• Checkmate (1962)
• Maverick (1962)
• Gunsmoke (1962)
• Perry Mason (1962–63)
• Laramie (1963)
• Death Valley Days (1969–70)
• Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969/1973)
• Dragnet (1969–77)
• Adam-12 (1970–71)
• The Virginian (1971)
• Kung Fu (1975)

See also

• List of film serials: 1910-1956
• List of Western films: 1950-1954

External links

• Marshall Reed at the Internet Movie Database