- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHugh Herbert Hipple
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Marlowe was born Hugh Hipple in Philadelphia, and began his stage career in the 1930s at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He performed extensively on radio, stage, television and film with credits including off-Broadway productions of "The Deer Park" in 1967 and "All My Sons" in 1974.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesRosemary Torri(1968 - May 2, 1982) (his death, 1 child)K.T. Stevens(May 7, 1946 - September 1967) (divorced, 2 children)Edith Atwater(November 18, 1941 - September 16, 1945) (divorced)
- Was in three Best Picture nominees: Twelve O'Clock High (1949), All About Eve (1950), and Elmer Gantry (1960), with All About Eve winning in 1950.
- When Marlowe left his job as a radio announcer at WHO in Des Moines, he was replaced by another future film actor - Ronald Reagan.
- A former radio announcer, he began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in the early 1930s. He worked at 20th Century Fox as a second lead in the 1950s and reprised his former radio role in Mystery Is My Business (1954).
- He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), All About Eve (1950), and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
- Is one of twelve actors who played the trifecta - the victim, the defendant, and the murderer - in various episodes of Perry Mason (1957).
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