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
- 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
- Honor Thy Father as Stefano Magaddino
- Frasier, the Sensuous Lion as Chiarelli
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
- Savage Pampas as Sargent Barril
- Johnny Tiger as William Billie
- 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone as Joe Minasi
- 7 Golden Monks as Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
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
- 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
- Peter Gunn
- 77 Sunset Strip ... (Director)
- Bronco
- Days of Wine and Roses as Scarface
- Old Man as The Cajun
1957
- Maverick ... (Director)
- Wagon Train as First Mate Ferris
- 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
- Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair as Van Gould
- Funniest Show on Earth as Il proprietario del circo
- Trouble for the Legion as Serg. Schwartz
- Noi peccatori as Camillo
1952
- Girls Marked Danger as Machedi
- I tre corsari as Van Gould
- Vacation with a Gangster as Jack Menotti
- Brothers of Italy as Capitano March
- 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
- Black Hand as Caesar Xavier Serpi
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Frankie
- The Desert Hawk as Samad
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
- I Walk Alone as Nick Palestro
- Captain from Castile as Corio
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as John Mitchell
- Yankee Fakir as Duke
1946
- The Virginian as Pete
- Cloak and Dagger as Luigi
- Inside Job as Donovan
- Blonde Alibi as Joe DeRita
1945
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Joe Disko, Gambler
- Dillinger as Doc Madison
- Life with Blondie as Pete
- Don't Fence Me In as Clifford Anson
- Club Havana as Joe Reed
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
- Submarine Alert as Vincent Bela
- Calaboose as Sluggsy Baker
1942
- This Gun for Hire as Tommy
- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge as McGaffey
- Nazi Agent as Joe Aiello
- Yokel Boy as Henchman Trigger
- Call of the Canyon as Horace Dunston
- Eyes of the Underworld as Gordon Finch
1941
- The Shepherd of the Hills as Pete Matthews
- Hold That Ghost as Charlie Smith
- Tall, Dark and Handsome as Louie
- Blossoms in the Dust as Bert La Verne
- Sundown as Abdi Hammud
- Lady Scarface as Lefty Landers
- The Monster and the Girl as Sleeper
- Gangs Of The City as Mike
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Frank DeSoto
- A Dangerous Game as Joe
1940
- Brigham Young as Prosecutor
- Johnny Apollo as Bates
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum as Steve McBirney
- The Man Who Talked Too Much as Lefty Kyler
- The Golden Fleecing as 'Happy' Dugan
- The Great Profile as Tony
- Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! as Tony
1939
- S.O.S Tidal Wave as Melvin Sutter
- Invisible Stripes as Lefty
- Sergeant Madden as Piggy
- Dust Be My Destiny as Venetti
- Ex-Champ as Bill Crosle
- Romance of the Redwoods as Joe
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Floyd
- Code of the Streets as Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
- Think First as Joe
- Blind Alley as Buck
- Homicide Bureau as Chuck Brown
- Beware Spooks! as Slick Eastman
1938
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu as Johnny McCoy
- I Am the Law as Eddie Girard
- While New York Sleeps as Happy Nelson
- There's That Woman Again as Stevens
- Who Killed Gail Preston? as Frank Daniels
- Penitentiary as Jack Hawkins
- The Spider's Web as Steve Harmon
- Adventure in Sahara as Poule
- Convicted as Milton Militis
- Squadron of Honor as Lawlor
1937
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Thomas Mitchell
- San Quentin as Venetti
- The Shadow as Kid Crow
- Motor Madness as Gus Slater
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Rusty Morgan
- I Promise to Pay as Henchman Whitehat
- A Dangerous Adventure as Calkins
- Criminals of the Air as 'Blast' Reardon
- It Can't Last Forever as Hoodlum
- What Price Vengeance as Pete Brower
- Racketeers in Exile as 'Blackie' White
- Counsel for Crime as Edwin Mitchell
1936
- Desire as Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
- Love on a Bet as County Fair Barker
- Night Waitress as Dorn
- Charlie Chan at the Opera as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- Counterfeit as Dint Coleman
- Robin Hood of El Dorado as Manuel
- Road Gang as Pete
- Blackmailer as Pinky (uncredited)
- The Final Hour as Mike Magellon
- Don't Gamble with Love as Gambler
- The Cowboy Star as Johnny Sampson
1935
- 'G' Men as Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
- The Arizonian as Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay
- After the Dance as Tom - a Prisoner
- 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
- Little Big Shot as Doré's Henchman
- Go Into Your Dance as Eddie Logan
- Men of the Hour as Joe
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)