Marc Lawrence
Date of birth: 1910-02-17
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: F.A. Foss, Marc Laurence, Marc C. Lawrence, Mark Lawrence, Max Goldsmith
Biography
Marc Lawrence was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence appeared in films beginning in 1931. Garfield followed, starting his film career in 1938. Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films. Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Lawrence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Four Rooms
1995-12-09
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943-03-11
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974-12-04
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat in
Diamonds Are Forever
1971-12-14
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smug
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996-01-19
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to
Marathon Man
1976-10-08
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003-11-14
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recentl
Life with Blondie
1945-12-13
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest
The Shipping News
2001-12-18
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to rec
Key Largo
1948-07-16
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th
The Big Easy
1986-11-27
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His
Super Fuzz
1980-09-18
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed f
The Princess and the Pirate
1944-11-17
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man he
Jigsaw
1949-03-11
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murder
Thieves and Robbers
1983-02-11
A Lothario, in trouble for fooling around with a Senator's wife, becomes an unwitting witness to a m
I Walk Alone
1947-12-31
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught a
Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a
Convicted
1938-08-18
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938-12-30
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his fathe
Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r
Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936-12-04
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting r
Dillinger
1945-04-25
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945-05-28
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
Blind Alley
1939-05-11
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
Out of the Storm
1948-09-11
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in
Black Hand
1950-03-12
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
A Piece of the Action
1977-10-07
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney
Hold That Ghost
1941-08-07
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The
Helen of Troy
1956-01-26
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Hele
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941-07-18
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparent
Lady for a Day
1933-09-13
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanis
Blonde Alibi
1946-03-01
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic
Foul Play
1978-07-14
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albino
Cloak and Dagger
1946-09-28
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937-09-22
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940-09-06
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and
This Gun for Hire
1942-04-24
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bill
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme
Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a
Funniest Show on Earth
1953-11-12
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his
Hot Stuff
1979-08-10
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because
Kill Her Gently
1957-12-01
A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to
Submarine Alert
1943-06-28
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an
Ruby
1992-03-27
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they
Custer of the West
1967-11-09
The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who lat
Johnny Cool
1963-10-02
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Brigham Young
1940-09-27
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp
Sundown
1941-10-31
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and en
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941-01-24
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a
Club Havana
1945-11-23
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fas
Krakatoa, East of Java
1968-12-26
A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa
Lady Scarface
1941-09-26
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes
Daddy's Deadly Darling
1973-05-25
The owner of a roadside diner and his new helper kill people and feed them to pigs.
My Favorite Spy
1951-12-25
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
Cataclysm
1980-01-01
Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discove
Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c
King of Kong Island
1968-09-29
Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, c
I Am the Law
1938-08-25
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organi
While New York Sleeps
1938-12-16
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Savage Pampas
1966-07-07
An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
Tough Assignment
1949-11-15
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow
If I Had a Million
1932-11-18
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st
Racketeers in Exile
1937-03-30
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness
Call of the Canyon
1942-08-17
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
The Golden Fleecing
1940-08-16
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Counsel for Crime
1937-10-14
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger p
Blackmailer
1936-07-23
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
The Shadow
1937-12-22
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's deat
Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938-02-24
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
White Woman
1933-11-10
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his e
Love on a Bet
1936-03-06
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he
Calaboose
1943-01-29
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939-10-26
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
In Pursuit of Treasure
1972-03-17
In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with u
Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d
Night Waitress
1936-12-18
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Fra
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953-02-05
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among
I tre corsari
1952-10-16
The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count a
Girls Marked Danger
1952-09-25
A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent t
Beware Spooks!
1939-10-24
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
What Price Vengeance
1937-05-25
A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942-11-20
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing
Rainbow Island
1944-10-05
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a
The Spider's Web
1938-10-21
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The
Hurricane Island
1951-07-16
Ponce de Leon searches for the Fountain of Youth, but it's not an easy quest, thanks to bad weather,
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939-06-02
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940-07-16
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a
Brothers of Italy
1952-01-01
Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots
2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
1966-03-04
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual facul
Captain from Castile
1947-12-25
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happen
Gotti
1996-08-17
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises t
Terror at Alcatraz
1982-07-04
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, r
Desire
1936-04-11
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his v
Tampico
1944-04-10
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Kat
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973-06-19
A telepathic lion teaches an awkward zoologist how to love.
Johnny Tiger
1966-06-15
Teacher George Dean packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936-03-17
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for th
After the Dance
1935-06-25
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939-01-27
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Switch
1975-03-21
In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private invest
Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police C
Old Man
1958-11-20
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
Strangers All
1935-04-01
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950-08-05
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them
Don't Fence Me In
1945-10-20
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magaz
Honor Thy Father
1973-03-01
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bes
Gangs Of The City
1941-10-30
Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story t
Yokel Boy
1942-03-13
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and make
Swap Meet
1979-09-21
The plot: Roy is jealous of Sigi, who attracts Nancy's attention, and has two clumsy guys demolish S
Adventure in Sahara
1938-11-15
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppress
The Virginian
1946-05-05
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a
Yankee Fakir
1947-04-01
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Dream No Evil
1970-01-01
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and r
Squadron of Honor
1938-06-28
Squadron of Honor takes place during an American Legion convention, with newsreel shots of the genui
Counterfeit
1936-05-25
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
A Dangerous Adventure
1937-07-21
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help
Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur
Code of the Streets
1939-04-13
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap.
A Dangerous Game
1941-08-21
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an is
7 Golden Monks
1966-02-08
Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a lo
Romance of the Redwoods
1939-03-29
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malo
Inside Job
1946-06-14
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who k
The Cowboy Star
1936-11-20
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowb
Murder in Greenwich Village
1937-11-03
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu
The Arizonian
1935-06-27
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d
San Quentin
1937-05-24
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlf
Gambling Ship
1933-06-23
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,
The Linguini Incident
1991-05-01
A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob the New York restaurant where two of them
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940-06-07
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him.
It Can't Last Forever
1937-07-15
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the
Noi peccatori
1953-03-21
A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarce
Think First
1939-09-08
Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a dri
Don't Gamble with Love
1936-02-28
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occa
The Desert Hawk
1950-08-05
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daug
Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941-03-21
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds
There's That Woman Again
1938-12-24
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry
Du mou dans la gâchette
1967-08-30
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangst
I Promise to Pay
1937-04-21
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
Go Into Your Dance
1935-04-20
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Ex-Champ
1939-05-11
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Vacation with a Gangster
1952-03-22
A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and s
3 Kids and a Queen
1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq
Night Train to Terror
1985-05-01
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in
Unconquered
1947-10-10
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to esc
'G' Men
1935-05-04
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused
Newsies
1992-04-10
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t
Donor
1990-12-09
Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a f
Tormento del passato
1952-04-01
A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
End of Days
1999-11-24
Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When
The Final Hour
1936-07-07
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
2000-10-17
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947-09-20
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby
Invisible Stripes
1939-12-30
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Blood Red
1989-08-18
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industria
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949-09-20
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Befor
Criminals of the Air
1937-04-30
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez i
Goin' Coconuts
1978-10-06
The toothsome singing duo, Donny and Marie Osmond, head for Hawaii in this comedy. The trouble begin
Don't Bet on Blondes
1935-07-13
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His fir
Penitentiary
1938-02-05
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he pro
Trouble for the Legion
1953-08-27
Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion.
Days of Wine and Roses
1958-10-02
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to
Road Gang
1936-03-28
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a