Marc Lawrence
Born: 1910-02-17 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2005-11-27
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2003
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action as Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
2001
- The Shipping News as Cousin Nolan
2000
- Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' as Self
1999
- End of Days as Old Man
1996
- From Dusk Till Dawn as Old Timer
- Gotti as Carlo Gambino
1995
- Four Rooms as Sam the Bellhop
1994
- ER as Mr. Newton
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Mr. Zeemo
1991
- The Linguini Incident as Bar Patron
1990
- Donor as Ben Beloit
- Shannon's Deal as Abe the Just
1989
- Blood Red as Michael Fazio
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Volnath
1986
- The Big Easy as Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
1985
- Night Train to Terror as Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
1983
- The A-Team as Sam Marlini
- Thieves and Robbers as Salvatore Licuti
1982
- Terror at Alcatraz as Daniel Ginelli
1980
- Cataclysm as Abraham Weiss / Dieter
- Super Fuzz as Torpedo
1978
- Goin' Coconuts as Webster
- Foul Play as Rupert Stiltskin
1977
- CHiPs as Co-Driver
- A Piece of the Action as Louie
1976
- Marathon Man as Erhard
1975
- Baretta
- Switch as Don Vincenzo
- Wonder Woman as Mr. Jones
- Switch as Franks
1974
- The Man with the Golden Gun as Rodney
1973
- Daddy's Deadly Darling as Zambrini
- Frasier, the Sensuous Lion as Chiarelli
- Honor Thy Father as Stefano Magaddino
1971
- Diamonds Are Forever as Slumber Inc. Attendant
- Nichols as Prouty
- The Partners as Kelso
1970
- McCloud
- Dream No Evil as The Undertaker
- The Kremlin Letter as The Priest
1969
1968
- Krakatoa, East of Java as Jacobs
- Here's Lucy as Joe Grapefruit
- The Doris Day Show as Frankie Fury
- King of Kong Island as Albert Muller
1967
- Mannix as Angelo Palerma
- Custer of the West as Gold Miner
- Du mou dans la gâchette as Magnum
1966
- Savage Pampas as Sargent Barril
- The Rat Patrol as Abu Hassan
- Johnny Tiger as William Billie
- 7 Golden Monks as Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Joe Minasi
1965
- Nightmare in the Sun ... (Director)
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Barney Dawson
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Orente
- Arrest and Trial as Leo Tucci
- Johnny Cool as Johnny Colini
1961
- Mister Ed as Spike the Bank Robber
1960
- The Roaring 20's ... (Director)
1959
- Bonanza as Red Gaskell
- The Untouchables as Luigi Renaldo
- The Detectives as Marcus Maroon
- The Deputy as Alvy Burke
- Tightrope as Frankie Farrell
- Johnny Staccato
- The Troubleshooters as Bob Blossom
1958
- The Rifleman as Cougar
- Lawman as Frank Walker
- Peter Gunn
- 77 Sunset Strip ... (Director)
- Bronco
- Old Man as The Cajun
- Days of Wine and Roses as Scarface
1957
- Wagon Train as First Mate Ferris
- Maverick ... (Director)
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Vito Doria
- M Squad as Vince Cronin
- Kill Her Gently as William Connors
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Wade Migill
- Playhouse 90 as El Sordo
- Helen of Troy as Diomedes
1953
- Funniest Show on Earth as Il proprietario del circo
- Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair as Van Gould
- Noi peccatori as Camillo
- Trouble for the Legion as Serg. Schwartz
1952
- Girls Marked Danger as Manfredi
- I tre corsari as Van Gould
- Vacation with a Gangster as Jack Menotti
- Tormento del passato as Piero / Andrea Rossi
- Brothers of Italy as Capitano March
1951
- My Favorite Spy as Ben Ali
- Hurricane Island as Angus Macready (uncredited)
1950
- Black Hand as Caesar Xavier Serpi
- The Desert Hawk as Samad
- The Asphalt Jungle as Cobby
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Frankie
1949
- Jigsaw as Angelo Agostini
- Calamity Jane and Sam Bass as Dean
- Tough Assignment as Vince
1948
- Studio One as Cow Nelson
- Key Largo as Ziggy
- Out of the Storm as Red Stubbins
1947
- Unconquered as Medicine Man Sioto
- Yankee Fakir as Duke
- I Walk Alone as Nick Palestro
- Captain from Castile as Corio
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as John Mitchell
1946
- The Virginian as Pete
- Cloak and Dagger as Luigi
- Blonde Alibi as Joe DeRita
- Inside Job as Donovan
1945
- Dillinger as Doc Madison
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Joe Disko, Gambler
- Club Havana as Joe Reed
- Life with Blondie as Pete
- Don't Fence Me In as Clifford Anson
1944
- Tampico as Valdez
- Rainbow Island as Alcoa
- The Princess and the Pirate as Pedro
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Jeff Farnley
- Submarine Alert as Vincent Bela
- Calaboose as Sluggsy Baker
- Hit the Ice as Phil
1942
- Yokel Boy as Henchman Trigger
- Nazi Agent as Joe Aiello
- This Gun for Hire as Tommy
- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge as McGaffey
- Call of the Canyon as Horace Dunston
- Eyes of the Underworld as Gordon Finch
1941
- Sundown as Abdi Hammud
- Blossoms in the Dust as Bert La Verne
- The Shepherd of the Hills as Pete Matthews
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Frank DeSoto
- Hold That Ghost as Charlie Smith
- The Monster and the Girl as Sleeper
- A Dangerous Game as Joe
- Tall, Dark and Handsome as Louie
- Lady Scarface as Lefty Landers
- Gangs Of The City as Mike
1940
- Brigham Young as Prosecutor
- Johnny Apollo as Bates
- The Man Who Talked Too Much as Lefty Kyler
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum as Steve McBirney
- The Great Profile as Tony
- The Golden Fleecing as 'Happy' Dugan
- Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! as Tony
1939
- Blind Alley as Buck
- Invisible Stripes as Lefty
- Beware Spooks! as Slick Eastman
- Think First as Joe
- Ex-Champ as Bill Crosle
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Melvin Sutter
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
- Romance of the Redwoods as Joe
- Code of the Streets as Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Floyd
- Dust Be My Destiny as Venetti
- Homicide Bureau as Chuck Brown
- Sergeant Madden as Piggy
1938
- Convicted as Milton Militis
- Penitentiary as Jack Hawkins
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu as Johnny McCoy
- The Spider's Web as Steve Harmon
- Adventure in Sahara as Poule
- There's That Woman Again as Stevens
- While New York Sleeps as Happy Nelson
- Who Killed Gail Preston? as Frank Daniels
- I Am the Law as Eddie Girard
- Squadron of Honor as Lawlor
1937
- San Quentin as Venetti
- The Shadow as Kid Crow
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Thomas Mitchell
- A Dangerous Adventure as Calkins
- Counsel for Crime as Edwin Mitchell
- I Promise to Pay as Henchman Whitehat
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Rusty Morgan
- Criminals of the Air as 'Blast' Reardon
- What Price Vengeance as Pete Brower
- Racketeers in Exile as 'Blackie' White
- It Can't Last Forever as Hoodlum
1936
- Counterfeit as Dint Coleman
- Desire as Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
- Blackmailer as Pinky (uncredited)
- Night Waitress as Dorn
- Road Gang as Pete
- The Final Hour as Mike Magellon
- Charlie Chan at the Opera as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Cowboy Star as Johnny Sampson
- Don't Gamble with Love as Gambler
- Love on a Bet as County Fair Barker
- Robin Hood of El Dorado as Manuel
1935
- 'G' Men as Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
- Go Into Your Dance as Eddie Logan
- The Arizonian as Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay
- Little Big Shot as Doré's Henchman
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Gangster
- Dr. Socrates as Lefty Croger - a Gangster
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Gangster (Uncredited)
- Strangers All as Communist Meeting Chairman
- After the Dance as Tom - a Prisoner
1933
- White Woman as Connors
- Gambling Ship as Chicago Hood (uncredited)
- Lady for a Day as Nick, a Mug at Reception (uncredited)
1932
- If I Had a Million as Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)