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Herbert Marshall

1890 - 1966

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Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen, and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the United Kingdom and North America, he became an in-demand Hollywood leading man, frequently appearing in romantic melodramas and occasional comedies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Marshall has received more than 1,097,944 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Herbert Marshall is the 4,931st most popular actor (down from 4,440th in 2019), the 3,761st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,508th in 2019) and the 571st most popular British Actor.

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  • 47.25

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  • 26

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  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Herbert Marshall ranks 4,931 out of 13,578. Before him are Katharine Houghton, Vincent Spano, Ed Skrein, China Zorrilla, Im Yoon-ah, and Melvil Poupaud. After him are Jocelyn Brando, Taylor Kinney, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Tighe, Birol Ünel, and Robert Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Herbert Marshall ranks 189. Before him are Art Acord, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Klabund, Robert Lindsay, Hans Gál, and Åge Lundström. After him are Robert Armstrong, Luís de Freitas Branco, Paul Scherrer, Rainer von Fieandt, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and Mortimer Wheeler. Among people deceased in 1966, Herbert Marshall ranks 169. Before him are Iosif Czako, Hilde Schrader, Julia Faye, Robert Charpentier, Margery Allingham, and Frank O'Hara. After him are Wallace Ford, Bernard Schmetz, Paula Strasberg, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, and Verna Felton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Marshall ranks 3,761 out of 8,785. Before him are Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), Peter Lorimer (1946), Ashley Young (1985), Benjamin Robins (1707), and William Henry Young (1863). After him are Victor d'Arcy (1887), Jim Bellamy (1881), Rupert Friend (1981), Jony Ive (1967), John Hopkinson (1849), and Pauline Collins (1940).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Herbert Marshall ranks 571. Before him are Annabelle Wallis (1984), Anna Lee (1913), Tim McInnerny (1956), Barbara Windsor (1937), Jeremy Wade (1956), and Ed Skrein (1983). After him are Rupert Friend (1981), Pauline Collins (1940), Michael Rennie (1909), Ron Moody (1924), Ann Todd (1907), and Elizabeth Spriggs (1929).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Fly
Insp. Charas
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.
Jul 16th 19587.005 / 10
Murder!
Sir John Menier
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Jul 31st 19306 / 10
Foreign Correspondent
Stephen Fisher
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Aug 16th 19406.959 / 10