Hugh Marlowe (
January 30,
1911 –
May 2,
1982) was an American film, television, stage and radio actor.Marlowe was born Hugh Hipple in
Philadelphia and began his stage career in the 1930s at the
Pasadena Playhouse in California. Marlowe was usually a film secondary lead or supporting actor in the films he appeared in. He appeared in films including
Mrs. Parkington (1944),
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944),
Twelve O'Clock High (1949),
Night and the City (1950),
All About Eve (1950),
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951),
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956),
World Without End (1957),
Elmer Gantry (1960),
Birdman of Alcatraz (1961) and
Seven Days in May (1964). Marlowe, known for his humorless stiff demeanor, was a regular on the daytime television soap opera,
Another World, the last of four actors to portray Jim Matthews, from 1969 until his death from a
heart attack at the age of 71. Marlowe was once married to actress
K. T. Stevens.
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