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Scott Marlowe

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Scott Marlowe
Marlowe in an episode of One Step Beyond (1961)
Born
Ronald Richard DeLeo

(1932-06-24)June 24, 1932
DiedJanuary 6, 2001(2001-01-06) (aged 68)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1951–1998

Scott Gregory Marlowe (born Ronald Richard DeLeo; June 24, 1932 – January 6, 2001)[1] was an American actor who had starring roles in the teen exploitation film The Cool and the Crazy (1958, alongside Dick Bakalyan) and the May-December independent film, A Cold Wind in August (1961, opposite Lola Albright).

Career

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Film

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Marlowe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Attila (1955). Over the next few years, he began accruing supporting parts in several films, co-starring opposite Leslie Caron in Gaby (1956); in the Michael Curtiz-directed film noir, The Scarlet Hour (1956); with Russ Tamblyn in The Young Guns (1956); opposite the Robert Ryan-led ensemble cast of Men in War (1957); and a young Anne Bancroft in The Restless Breed (1957).

However, in 1958, he garnered a pair of lead roles in teen exploitation films dealing with juvenile delinquency: Young and Wild and The Cool and the Crazy—the latter of which not only co-starred another rising star in the subgenre, Richard Bakalyan, but proved to be Marlowe's breakthrough role. He followed this up with Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) and The Subterraneans (1960). The latter featured an all-star cast and was adapted from Jack Kerouac's titular novel, albeit severely diluted from its original beatnik content.

In 1961, he starred opposite Lola Albright in the May-December independent romantic drama, A Cold Wind in August. Despite only being eight years younger than her, Marlowe portrayed a character half of Albright's age who was seduced and fell in love, but complications arose when her burlesque stripper past interfered with his idealized perception.

Subsequently concentrating on television, his film roles dissipated after that. After Lonnie (1963), Marlowe wouldn't act in another feature film until the star-studded remake of Journey into Fear (1975), followed by Circle of Power (1981). In the 1990s, he had roles in one more theatrical film, Chasers (1994); while the last two, Lightning in a Bottle (1998) and Counter Measures (1999) both went direct-to-video on VHS.

Television

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In 1958, he played “Jess ‘Little Elk’ Carswell”, the son of the title character (played by James Whitmore) in the Wagon Train episode "The Gabe Carswell Story" (S1E18) which aired 1/14/1958.

In 1960, Marlowe starred opposite Clint Walker in the Cheyenne episode "Apache Blood" as “Mickey Free-Ward”. Also in 1960, he guest-starred in the episode "The Show Off" of Law of the Plainsman as "Clancy James". In 1961, he appeared as "Les" in the series Straightaway in the episode "Die Laughing". In 1962, he guest-starred on Stoney Burke in the episode “Point of Honor” (S1E04) as the troubled, would-be bull rider “Soames Hewitt”. He guest-starred in the 1963 episode "Legends Don't Sleep" (S9E03) as "Britt" in Gunsmoke. Marlowe had roles in three episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel: "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (S1E4); "Charley Red Dog" (S3E13); and "Duke of Texas" (S4E31).

Marlowe appeared twice on the The Outer Limits. As a guest-star in the 1963 episode "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” he played a worried man searching for his missing brother played by Michael Forest, with BarBara Luna featured as his girlfriend. In the 1964 episode "The Forms of Things Unknown” he costarred with Cedric Hardwicke, David McCallum, and Vera Miles playing the blackmailing playboy “André Pavan”. Much of the footage for this latter episode served as the basis of a reworked plot, using additionally filmed scenes, for a pilot (titled, “The Unknown”) created by The Outer Limits producers for an unsold anthology series called The Unknown.[2]

Between 1966 to 1973 he appeared 10 times on The F.B.I. in the following episodes: - The Exchange (1973) as Ray Curtis - The Rap Taker (1973) as Bob Stern - The Mastermind: Part 2 (1971) as Clenard Massey - The Mastermind: Part 1 (1971) as Clenard Massey - The Fatal Connection (1971) as Duke Bergan - Blood Tie (1969) as Ricky Kriton - The Young Warriors (1969) as William Rockhill - The Tunnel (1968) as Eugene Waring - Overload (1967) as Charles Nyack - The Price of Death (1966) as Casey

In 1974, he guest-starred on the Mannix episode "The Green Man" portraying “Turner Dabney”, a counterfeiter.[3] He guest-starred the 1979 episode "Fatal Overture" (S7E19) of Barnaby Jones as “Peter”.

In 1991, Marlowe starred as an alien Bajoran named “Keeve Falor” in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode “Ensign Ro” (S5E03).

Death

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Marlowe died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on January 6, 2001, at 68 years of age.[4]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1956 General Electric Theater John Goodwin Episode: “Summer Promise” (S4E18)
1958 Flight Cast Member Episode: “Texas Fliers” (S1E18)
Wagon Train Jess “Little Elk” Caswell Episode: “The Gabe Carswell Story” (S1E18)
Have Gun - Will Travel Roy Carter Episode: “The Hanging of Roy Carter” (S2E4)
Bronco John Wesley Hardin Episode: “The Turning Point” (S1E03)
1959 Have Gun - Will Travel Marshall Charley Red Dog Episode: “Charley Red Dog” (S3E13)
1960 Hotel de Paree Kid Episode: “Sundance and the Kid from Nowhere” (S1E15)
Cheyenne Mickey Free/Ward Episode: “Apache Blood”
Law of the Plainsman Clancy James Episode: “The Show Off”
1961 Zane Grey Theater Jimmy Budd Episode: “The Long Shadow” (S5E15)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Eliot Gray Episode: “The Throwback” (S6E20)
Route 66 Armand Fontaine Episode: “Effigy in Snow” (S1E21)
Have Gun - Will Travel Duke Franz von Pishin Episode: “Duke of Texas” (S4E31)
One Step Beyond Mario Episode: “The Gift”
Straightaway Les Episode: “Die Laughing”
The Aquanauts Ernie Baron Episode: “The Frankie Adventure” (S1E25)
Thriller Julian Boucher Episode: “The Premature Burial” (S2E03)
Target: The Corruptors! Phil Manzak Episode: “Mr Megalomania” (S1E08)
1962 Stoney Burke Soames Hewitt Episode: “Point of Honor” (S1E04)
Dr Kildare Dr Eddie Moore Episode: “The Dragon” (S1E20)
Target: The Corruptors! Tito Episode: “A Man’s Castle” (S1E26)
The Detectives Frank Worden Episode: “Night Boat” (S3E20)
Checkmate Daniel Brack Episode: “Brooding Fixation” (S2E22)
1963 Gunsmoke Britt Episode: “Legends Don’t Sleep” (S9E03)
The Outer Limits Jory Peters Episode: “It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” (S1E11)
Ben Casey Jason Landros Episode: “For this Relief, Much Thanks” (S3E01). The events of this episode were continued in the series debut of Breaking Point.
Breaking Point Jason Landros Episode: “Solo for B-Flat Clarinet” (S1E01). A continuation of a two-part story that began on the Ben Casey episode, "For This Relief, Much Thanks".
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre Johnny Baroja Episode: “My Enemy, This Town” (S1E15)
Bonanza Lee Hewitt Episode: “The Roper” (S5E27)
Kraft Suspense Theatre Sherman “Sherm” Tyler Episode: “A Cruel and Unusual Night” (S1E28)
The Outer Limits Andre Pavan Episode: “The Forms of Things Unknown” (S1E32). It was filmed in a dual format as both a regular episode of The Outer Limits and as a pilot episode for a possible ABC series called The Unknown.
Gunsmoke Tony Serpa Episode: “Hung High” (S10E8)
Rawhide Tate Episode: “Canliss” (S7E6)
1965 Gunsmoke Lonnie Blane Episode: “Thursday’s Child” (S10E24)
The Wild Wild West Ahkeema Episode: “The Night of the Howling Light” (S1E14)
1966 The F.B.I. Casey Episode: “The Price of Death” (S2E1)
Gunsmoke Ed Episode: “The Brothers” (S11E25)
The Time Tunnel Jeremiah Gebhardt Episode: “The Death Trap”
1967 The F.B.I. Charles Nyack Episode: “Overload” (S3E8)
1968 Mannix Steve Cade Episode: “You Can Get Killed Out There” (S1E19)
The F.B.I. Eugene Waring Episode: “The Tunnel” (S3E26)
1969 The F.B.I. William Rockhill Episode: “The Young Warriors” (S4E24)
The Outsider Joe Andrade Episode: “A Bowl of Cherries” (S1E17)
The F.B.I. Ricky Kriton Episode: “Blood Tie” (S5E9)
1970 Mission: Impossible Josef Czerny Episode: “The Martyr”
Night Slaves Matt Russell Television Movie - ABC (Aired 9/29/1970)
Lancer Billy Kells Episode: “The Experiment” (S2E18)
1971 Travis Logan, D.A. George Carnera Television Movie - CBS (repackaged TV pilot)
The F.B.I. Duke Bergan Episode: “The Fatal Connection” (S6E19)
Medical Center Steve Episode: “Double Jeopardy” (S3E4)
The Mod Squad Keech Thompson Episode: “The Sentinels” (S4E1)
The F.B.I. Clenard Massey Episodes: “The Mastermind Parts 1 & 2” (S7E6&7)
1972 The Streets of San Francisco Dimitri Kampacalas Episode: Bitter Wine” (S1E12)
Cade's County Leo Rand Episode: “Inferno” (S1E19)
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law Boyd Davies Episode: “Smiles from Yesterday” (S1E21)
Ironside Jeffrey Episode: “The Deadly Gamesmen” (S6E10)
1973 Cannon Pappy Harris Episode: “To Ride a Tiger” (S2E19)
The F.B.I. Bob Stern Episode: “The Rap Taker” (S8E16)
The F.B.I. Ray Curtis Episode: “The Exchange” (S9E5)
1974 Police Story Terry Young Episodes: “Countdown: Parts 1 & 2” (S1E12&13)
Barnaby Jones Vincent Talbot Episode: “Friends Till Death” (S2E19)
Mannix Turner Dabney Episode: “The Green Man”
Hawaii Five-O Army/Starwood Episode: “The Young Assassins” (S7E01)
1975 Adams of Eagle Lake Ron Selleck Reoccurring Character - 2 Episodes (S1E1&2)
1976 Executive Suite Nick Koslo Reoccurring Character 1976-1977 - 10 Episodes
1978 Wonder Woman Angie Episode: “The Deadly Sting” (S3E3)
The Critical List Dr Albert Dubron Television Movie - NBC (Aired 9/11/1978)
Quincy, M.E. Joe DiCenzio Episode: “The Last Six Hours” (S4E1)
The Rockford Files Augie Arnow Episode: “Local Man Eaten by Newspaper” (S5E11)
1979 Another World Frank Lansing Reoccurring Character - 4 Episodes (1.3812, 1.3818, 1.3824 & 1.3877)
Barnaby Jones Peter Episode: “Fatal Overdose” (S7E19)
1982 Thou Shalt Not Kill Mr. Lochman Television Movie - NBC (Filmed 1979; Aired 4/12/1982)
The Fall Guy Bill Episode: “Three for the Road” (S1E21)
1983 The Powers of Mathew Star Latimer Episode: “The Great Waldo Shepard” (S1E19)
1984 Automan Robert Sawyer Episode: “Ships in the Night” (S1E4)
Days of Our Lives Eric Brady Reoccurring Character - 6 Episodes
Matt Houston John Episode: “Blood Money” (S3E10)
1985 Fame Bob Demeter Episode: “Danny De Bergerac” (S4E18)
T.J. Hooker Marty Lathon Episode: “The Ransom”
Cagney & Lacey Claude Sycamore Episode: “Lottery” (S5E4)
1989 Hunter Ray Brill Episode: “On Air” (S6E1)
Beauty and the Beast Richard Nolan Episode: “Trial“ (S2E17)
No Place Like Home Eddie Cooper Television Movie - CBS (Aired 12/3/1989)
Thirtysomething Leo Steadman Episode: “Michael’s Campaign” (S3E10)
Freddy's Nightmares Dr. Brandon Kepler Episode: “Death Come True” (S2E1)
1990 Perfect Strangers Marco Madison 2 Episodes: “The Men Who Knew Too Much: Parts 1 & 2” (S6E7&8)
Matlock Al Blackman 2 Episodes: “The Informer: Parts 1 & 2” (S4E20&21)
Father Dowling Mysteries Jack Patton Episode: “The Murder Weekend Mystery” (S3E7)
1991 Equal Justice Mr. Weiss Episode: “Endgame” (S2E2)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Keeve Falor Episode: “Ensign Ro” (S5E03)
Jake and the Fat Man Moffit Episode: “I Cover the Waterfront” (S6E17)
1994 McKenna Bobby Clark Episode: “The Pursuit” (S1E6)
Seasons of the Heart Mike Santucci Television Movie - NBC (Aired 5/24/1994)
Following Her Heart Frank Television Movie - NBC (Aired 11/28/1994)
Valley of the Dolls Michael Burke Main Role - 65 Episodes
1995 Murder, She Wrote Avery Nugent Episode: “School for Murder” (S11E19)

References

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  1. ^ Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
  2. ^ Hipson, Rick “Interview: Dave Rash and Dominic Stefano take us to The Outer Limits”, Cemetery Dance Publications, (March 26, 2021), https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/interview-dave-rash-dominic-stefano-outer-limits/
  3. ^ "Mannix". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  4. ^ "Obituaries; Scott Marlowe; Actor Had Roles as Young Delinquent: [Home Edition]". Los Angeles Times. January 29, 2001. p. B4. ProQuest 421570096. Scott Marlowe, 68, a youthful actor in 1950s juvenile delinquency movies who segued into roles in television movies and series. [...] Among the later TV series in which Marlowe appeared were "Executive Suite" in the 1970s and "Perfect Strangers" and "Murder, She Wrote" in the 1990s. He had prominent parts in several TV movies, including "No Place Like Home" with Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels and Kathy Bates; "Following Her Heart" with Ann-Margret and George Segal; and "Seasons of the Heart" with Carol Burnett and Segal. Marlowe also performed on stage, including the Chicago production of "Death of a Salesman," and was a founding member of Theatre West. On Jan. 6 in Los Angeles of a heart attack.

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