Marshall Ruth

Biography

His relationship, if any, to baseball legend Babe Ruth yet to be established, the equally hefty Marshall Ruth played professional football prior to entering films in the mid-'20s as a technical advisor on a Fox comedy short. Ruth, who weighed in at 230 pounds, would use his hefty stature as a comedic tool in countless feature films and comedy shorts to come, more often than not in unbilled bits. He made his final screen appearance shortly before his death in 1953. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi