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Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) was an English actor. Marshall starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. He easily transitioned into supporting roles in the 1950s and 1960s. His IMDb page shows 92 acting credits from 1927 to 1965. This page will rank Herbert Marshall movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, and uncredited roles were not included in the rankings.
Herbert Marshall Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Herbert Marshall
1. Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was born in London, England in 1890.
2. Herbert Marshall took a job as an assistant business manager of a theatre troupe after being fired for being a slow accounting clerk. This job switch was the first step that got him in the acting business.
3. Herbert Marshall was shot by a sniper during World War I in his right knee. Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg. One of his main motivations for learning how to walk well with a prosthetic leg was to get back on stage.
4. Throughout his career, Herbert Marshall largely managed to hide the fact that he had a prosthetic limb. He used a very deliberate square-shouldered and guided walk, largely unnoticeable, to cover up his disability.
5. Herbert Marshall was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941) and The Razor’s Edge (1946).
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When I think about it my favorite Herbert Marshall performance it is probably in 1946’s The Razor’s Edge. The movie was based on the book by Somerset Maugham and in the film Herbert plays the latter to a T.
Herb’s characters were normally ones of “wit, grace, charm and style,” though I note his opening quote in the video about his capacity for cutting up rough off-camera if need be!
BEST 15 STILLS/LOBBY CARDS IN STEVE’s MARSHALL VIDEO
1/When Ladies Meet
2/3rd Day
3/two for 4 Frightened People
4/The Painted Veil
5/Angel
6/The Fly
7/ Hitch directing McCrea
8/Duel in the Sun – 2 exceptionally impressive ones.
9/The Letter [1940]
10/The Little Foxes
11/Trouble in Paradise
12/Blonde Venus
13/Closing solo of the younger dashing Herbert.
14/The Razor’s Edge
15/Mad about Music – young Deanna at her most lovely.
OVERALL: in my opinion Steve’s Marshall Video deserves no less than a 98% rating for the pleasure that its glut of classy vintage visuals and FL [ie Foreign Language] material gave me. TOP 20 BEST POSTERS in my perception:
1/Riders to the Stars – on double bill over her with Bernie Schwartz’s Beachhead
2/FL one for The 3rd Day
3/A Woman Rebels
4/FL for Stage Struck
5/The Letter [1929
6/Midnight Lace
7/two for Black Shield of Falworth
8/two for Painted Veil
9/2 for Riptide
10/Murder
11/FL for High Wall
12/two for Angel
13/Moon and Sixpence – one of my all-time fave films and books
14/Blonde Venus
15/the set for Secret Garden
16/two for Angel Face – one of my all-time fave B movies
17/Duel in the Sun – two absolute crackers – Greg iconic as The Laughing Outlaw
18/the entire set for Hitch’s classic Foreign Correspondent.
19/Trouble in Paradise
20/FL for If Only You Could Cook
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating and info, always appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
I had missed Bruce’s trivia about Herbert Marshall’s prosthetic leg so I was surprised to read about it when working on the video. He has hid this disability well in the few movies I’ve seen from this actor.
Three films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Letter, Foreign Correspondent and Trouble in Paradise. Two more scored 9 – The Little Foxes and The Razor’s Edge.
Trouble in Paradise and The Little Foxes tie at no.1 at IMDB and tops at Rotten Tomatoes is Trouble in Paradise. I haven’t seen either.
Being a fan of ‘The Fly’ I had read that Vincent Price and Marshall couldn’t keep a straight face at the climax where they had to imagine the films unlucky protagonist trapped in a spider web – “Oh, it was terrible,” said Price. “We could never quite get the lines out because every time that little voice of the fly would say “Help me! Help me! ” we would just scream with laughter. We ended up doing about 20 takes to finally get it.”
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback and additional information.
I liked the trivia about The Fly. I can see NOW why they would laugh at what they were hearing; but the first time that I saw the film I was just 16 and for a few years it left a strong impression with me. We were a simple people back in the 1950s!
Today I can even laugh at that guy coming down the chimney with a blood-stained axe and dressed as Santa in your Xmas video – which I hope we will soon be able to watch again!
Keep safe.
Just added Steve’s Herbert Marshall video to this page. Our thougths on Marshall and Steve’s video, orginally found on his channel….found below.
“Hey Steve… good new video. What happened to Wednesday’s video? I kept looking for it. As for the video…I have seen 8 of he 36 movies….with a total of 10 movies when looking at the rest of his movies. Favorites here include #1 Trouble in Paradise…way better than I thought it was going to be. #3 The Letter…one of my favorite Bette Davis movies and #4 Foreign Correspondent…though it is far from being one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Voted and shared.”
Hi Bruce, I’ve cut it down to 2 videos a week for the time being. Your tally 8 of the 36 on the video, I’ve seen 7 from the video chart and 8 from the UMR chart, Flora still ahead with 20 out of the 36. I will watch out for Trouble in Paradise next time it s on TV. Thanks again for the vote, share and comment, always appreciated.
I’ve seen just 8 of the 66 films on the chart, a poor tally. But there are three big favorites here – Foreign Correspondent, Duel in the Sun and The Fly.
The only film in the top 9 I’ve seen is Foreign Correspondent, Hitchcock’s second American film following Rebecca, both released in 1940.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…..thanks for checking out our Herbert Marshall page. Tally count: 25 for Flora, 14 for you, 10 for me and 8 for Steve. I have seen all three of your favorites. Only one of the UMR Top 10 seen…..that is pretty unusual. Good stuff as always.
My mother liked Herbert Marshall when she was young. There’s no accounting for taste. I always found him stodgy or dull. To his credit he does have an interesting and pretty long career. Herb was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. He does have a passable amount of appearances with people on the 2020 list.
3 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Stage Struck (1958)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL Midnight Lace (1960)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL The Third Day (1965)
76 DEAN STOCKWELL The Secret Garden (1949)
81 ROBERT MITCHUM Angel Face (1952)
81 ROBERT MITCHUM The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
102 ORSON WELLES Duel in the Sun (1946)
107 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944)
113 ROBERT VAUGHN The Caretakers (1963)
126 HENRY FONDA Stage Struck (1958)
131 BURT LANCASTER The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
193 KIRK DOUGLAS The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
290 GREGORY PECK Duel in the Sun (1946)
313 AVA GARDNER Young Ideas (1943)
368 CESAR ROMERO Always Goodbye (1938)
368 CESAR ROMERO The Good Fairy (1935)
406 LIONEL STANDER If You Could Only Cook (1935)
413 JOSEPH COTTEN Duel in the Sun (1946)
473 TONY CURTIS The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
512 RAY MILLAND Forever and a Day (1943)
549 VINCENT PRICE The Fly (1958)
572 SALLY KELLERMAN The Third Day (1965)
577 ROBERT STACK The Caretakers (1963)
579 GEORGE C. SCOTT The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
592 ANGIE DICKINSON A Fever in the Blood (1961)
628 GEORGE SANDERS Black Jack (1950)
628 GEORGE SANDERS Foreign Correspondent (1940)
628 GEORGE SANDERS The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
628 GEORGE SANDERS The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
634 JOAN COLLINS The Virgin Queen (1955)
667 PETER LAWFORD The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
721 LOUIS JOURDAN Anne of the Indies (1951)
722 JOHN HUSTON The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Fly (1958)
752 SUSAN STRASBERG Stage Struck (1958)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Letter (1940)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Little Foxes (1941)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Virgin Queen (1955)
788 MARCEL DALIO The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
805 KEYE LUKE Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944)
805 KEYE LUKE The Painted Veil (1934)
813 ROD TAYLOR The Virgin Queen (1955)
815 REX HARRISON Midnight Lace (1960)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
860 MIKE MAZURKI The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
892 ROBERT WEBBER The Third Day (1965)
948 FRANK SINATRA The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
I didn’t know he was in both versions of The Letter.
Herbert appeared with 38 Oscar winners.
ANNE BAXTER The Razor’s Edge (1946)
BETTE DAVIS The Letter (1940)
BETTE DAVIS The Little Foxes (1941)
BETTE DAVIS The Virgin Queen (1955)
BURT LANCASTER The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
CHARLES COBURN Forever and a Day (1943)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Forever and a Day (1943)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Stage Struck (1958)
CLAIRE TREVOR Crack-Up (1946)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Four Frightened People (1934)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Zaza (1938)
DON AMECHE A Fever in the Blood (1961)
DONALD CRISP A WOMAN REBELS (1936)
DONALD CRISP FOREVER AND A DAY (1943)
DONNA REED The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
EDMUND GWENN Foreign Correspondent (1940)
EDMUND GWENN Forever and a Day (1943)
EDMUND GWENN I Was a Spy (1933)
FAY BAINTER A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (1940)
FRANK SINATRA The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
FREDRIC MARCH The Dark Angel (1935)
GALE SONDERGAARD THE LETTER (1940)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
GEORGE SANDERS Black Jack (1950)
GEORGE SANDERS Foreign Correspondent (1940)
GEORGE SANDERS The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
GEORGE SANDERS The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
GREER GARSON When Ladies Meet (1941)
GREGORY PECK Duel in the Sun (1946)
HATTIE MCDANIEL BLONDE VENUS (1932)
HENRY FONDA Stage Struck (1958)
JENNIFER JONES Duel in the Sun (1946)
JOAN CRAWFORD The Caretakers (1963)
JOAN CRAWFORD When Ladies Meet (1941)
JOAN FONTAINE Ivy (1947)
KATHARINE HEPBURN A Woman Rebels (1936)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Duel in the Sun (1946)
MARY ASTOR Woman Against Woman (1938)
MARY ASTOR Young Ideas (1943)
MELVYN DOUGLAS Angel (1937)
NORMA SHEARER Riptide (1934)
RAY MILLAND Forever and a Day (1943)
RED BUTTONS Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
REX HARRISON Midnight Lace (1960)
TERESA WRIGHT The Little Foxes (1941)
VAN HEFLIN A Woman Rebels (1936)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Forever and a Day (1943)
WALTER BRENNAN Riptide (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN The Painted Veil (1934)
WALTER HUSTON Duel in the Sun (1946)
Hey Dan….interesting that your mom liked Herbert Marshall……I like reading stuff like that information. I agree he had a pretty interesting career. First list…George Sanders is the most frequent Oracle co-star. Second list. 38 Oscar winning co-stars is a pretty good total. Thanks as always for putting this information together.