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
- Shannon's Deal as Abe the Just
- Donor as Ben Beloit
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
- Super Fuzz as Torpedo
- Cataclysm as Abraham Weiss / Dieter
1978
- Foul Play as Rupert Stiltskin
- Goin' Coconuts as Webster
1977
- CHiPs as Co-Driver
- A Piece of the Action as Louie
1976
- Marathon Man as Erhard
1975
- Switch as Don Vincenzo
- Baretta
- 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
- Nichols as Prouty
- Diamonds Are Forever as Slumber Inc. Attendant
- The Partners as Kelso
1970
- McCloud
- The Kremlin Letter as The Priest
- Dream No Evil as The Undertaker
1969
- Krakatoa, East of Java as Jacobs
- Il killer
1968
- 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
- Loose in the Trigger as Magnum
1966
- The Rat Patrol as Abu Hassan
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Joe Minasi
- Savage Pampas as Sargent Barril
- 7 Golden Monks as Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
- Johnny Tiger as William Billie
1965
- Nightmare in the Sun ... (Director)
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Orente
- Petticoat Junction as Barney Dawson
- Arrest and Trial as Leo Tucci
- Johnny Cool as Johnny Colini
- Recoil as Marcus Maroon
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
- 77 Sunset Strip ... (Director)
- Peter Gunn
- Bronco
- Days of Wine and Roses as Scarface
- Old Man as The Cajun
1957
- Wagon Train as First Mate Ferris
- Maverick ... (Director)
- M Squad as Vince Cronin
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Vito Doria
- 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 Machedi
- I tre corsari as Van Gould
- Brothers of Italy as Capitano March
- Vacation with a Gangster as Jack Menotti
- Tormento del passato as Piero / Andrea Rossi
1951
- My Favorite Spy as Ben Ali
- Hurricane Island as Angus Macready (uncredited)
1950
- The Asphalt Jungle as Cobby
- The Desert Hawk as Samad
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Frankie
- Black Hand as Caesar Xavier Serpi
1949
- Calamity Jane and Sam Bass as Dean
- Jigsaw as Angelo Agostini
- 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
- I Walk Alone as Nick Palestro
- Captain from Castile as Corio
- Yankee Fakir as Duke
- 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
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Joe Disko, Gambler
- Don't Fence Me In as Clifford Anson
- Dillinger as Doc Madison
- Club Havana as Joe Reed
- Life with Blondie as Pete
1944
- The Princess and the Pirate as Pedro
- Tampico as Valdez
- Rainbow Island as Alcoa
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Jeff Farnley
- Hit the Ice as Phil
- Calaboose as Sluggsy Baker
- Submarine Alert as Vincent Bela
1942
- This Gun for Hire as Tommy
- Yokel Boy as Henchman Trigger
- Call of the Canyon as Horace Dunston
- Eyes of the Underworld as Gordon Finch
- Nazi Agent as Joe Aiello
- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge as McGaffey
1941
- The Shepherd of the Hills as Pete Matthews
- Hold That Ghost as Charlie Smith
- Blossoms in the Dust as Bert La Verne
- The Monster and the Girl as Sleeper
- Tall, Dark and Handsome as Louie
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Frank DeSoto
- Gangs Of The City as Mike
- Lady Scarface as Lefty Landers
- Sundown as Abdi Hammud
- A Dangerous Game as Joe
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
- Beware Spooks! as Slick Eastman
- Invisible Stripes as Lefty
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Floyd
- Dust Be My Destiny as Venetti
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Melvin Sutter
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
- Code of the Streets as Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
- Think First as Joe
- Romance of the Redwoods as Joe
- Sergeant Madden as Piggy
- Ex-Champ as Bill Crosle
- Blind Alley as Buck
- Homicide Bureau as Chuck Brown
1938
- I Am the Law as Eddie Girard
- The Spider's Web as Steve Harmon
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu as Johnny McCoy
- While New York Sleeps as Happy Nelson
- There's That Woman Again as Stevens
- Who Killed Gail Preston? as Frank Daniels
- Adventure in Sahara as Poule
- Penitentiary as Jack Hawkins
- Convicted as Milton Militis
- Squadron of Honor as Lawlor
1937
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Rusty Morgan
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Thomas Mitchell
- It Can't Last Forever as Hoodlum
- Criminals of the Air as 'Blast' Reardon
- San Quentin as Venetti
- I Promise to Pay as Henchman Whitehat
- What Price Vengeance as Pete Brower
- Motor Madness as Gus Slater
- Racketeers in Exile as 'Blackie' White
- The Shadow as Kid Crow
- A Dangerous Adventure as Calkins
- Counsel for Crime as Edwin Mitchell
1936
- Desire as Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan at the Opera as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- Road Gang as Pete
- Night Waitress as Dorn
- Robin Hood of El Dorado as Manuel
- Love on a Bet as County Fair Barker
- Don't Gamble with Love as Gambler
- Blackmailer as Pinky (uncredited)
- The Final Hour as Mike Magellon
- The Cowboy Star as Johnny Sampson
- Counterfeit as Dint Coleman
1935
- 'G' Men as Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Gangster
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Gangster (Uncredited)
- Dr. Socrates as Lefty Croger - a Gangster
- Men of the Hour as Joe
- Go Into Your Dance as Eddie Logan
- After the Dance as Tom - a Prisoner
- Strangers All as Communist Meeting Chairman
- Little Big Shot as Doré's Henchman
- The Arizonian as Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay
1933
- Lady for a Day as Nick, a Mug at Reception (uncredited)
- Gambling Ship as Chicago Hood (uncredited)
- White Woman as Connors
1932
- If I Had a Million as Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)