Herbert Marshall
Date of birth: 1890-05-23
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall
Biography
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who, despite losing a leg during the First World War, starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the United Kingdom and North America, he became an in-demand Hollywood leading man, frequently appearing in romantic melodramas and occasional comedies. In his later years, he turned to character acting.
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Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company
Angel Face
1953-01-02
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963-05-23
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help
The Fly
1958-07-16
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him
Murder!
1930-07-31
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence poin
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954-09-02
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants,
Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i
Midnight Lace
1960-10-13
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon
Crack-Up
1946-09-06
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th
High Wall
1947-12-17
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having co
Blonde Venus
1932-09-23
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire
The Horror Show
1979-02-06
A history of horror movies.
The Underworld Story
1950-07-26
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big
The Weapon
1956-09-01
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gu
Mumsie
1927-09-02
A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962-08-22
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl
The Virgin Queen
1955-07-22
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo
The Secret Garden
1949-04-30
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her
Wicked as They Come
1956-05-22
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
The Enchanted Cottage
1945-04-28
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral
Four Frightened People
1934-01-26
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic
The Little Foxes
1941-08-29
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mi
Ivy
1947-06-26
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do
Mad About Music
1938-02-27
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters fr
The Unseen
1945-05-12
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspi
Angel
1937-10-29
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Gog
1954-06-04
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first
The Good Fairy
1935-02-18
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, d
The Letter
1940-11-21
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Anne of the Indies
1951-10-18
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate cr
The Painted Veil
1934-11-23
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Breakfast for Two
1937-10-22
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted hi
When Ladies Meet
1941-08-29
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor J
College Confidential
1960-08-26
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lif
The Razor's Edge
1946-11-19
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. Bu
The Moon and Sixpence
1942-10-27
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker wh
The Caretakers
1963-08-21
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward o
Riders to the Stars
1954-01-14
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
A Bill of Divorcement
1940-05-31
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
A Woman Rebels
1936-11-06
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and en
The Solitaire Man
1933-09-22
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered
If You Could Only Cook
1935-12-30
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Stage Struck
1958-04-22
A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers t
The Third Day
1965-08-04
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests
Make Way for a Lady
1936-11-13
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1
The Letter
1929-03-17
A plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten
Flight for Freedom
1943-04-14
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles
Always Goodbye
1938-06-24
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim H
Young Ideas
1943-08-02
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Girls' Dormitory
1936-08-08
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknow
Secrets of a Secretary
1931-09-05
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brac
I Was a Spy
1933-09-04
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding milit
Outcast Lady
1934-09-28
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Riptide
1934-03-29
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their ma
Evenings for Sale
1932-11-12
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball
Accent on Youth
1935-08-23
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when he
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan
Zaza
1938-12-29
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Adventure in Washington
1941-05-29
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
The Shining Future
1944-04-11
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy
The Flame Within
1935-05-17
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
The Lady Consents
1936-02-07
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending
The Dark Angel
1935-09-08
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has
Woman Against Woman
1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence
Kathleen
1941-12-18
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and
Black Jack
1950-11-20
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's cl
A Fever in the Blood
1961-01-28
A judge, a district attorney and a U.S. senator, each hoping to be elected the next governor, attemp
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944-05-04
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he i
The Calendar
1931-10-19
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club whe
The Faithful Heart
1932-05-01
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts.
Michael and Mary
1931-10-29
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigam
Complicated Women
2003-05-06
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u
The House That Shadows Built
1931-07-08
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict
Forgotten Faces
1936-05-15
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014-06-11
Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo.
The Love Goddesses
1965-03-03
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the sil