Herbert Marshall Movies

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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.

1932’s Trouble In Paradise

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.

Herbert Marshall and Marlene Dietrich made two movies together.

Herbert Marshall Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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On the set of 1940’s Foreign Correspondent

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).

Check out Herbert Marshall’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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20 thoughts on “Herbert Marshall Movies”

  1. I have seen 25 Herbert Marshall movies including 8 of the top 10 as well as Murder! which I can’t find in the table but one of his 4 star performances.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is The Razor’s Edge.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Mad About Music.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Crack-Up.

    Favourite Herbert Marshall Movies I Have Seen:

    The Enchanted Cottage
    Foreign Correspondent
    The Razor’s Edge
    The Letter
    Duel in the Sun
    Midnight Lace
    The Dark Angel
    Trouble in Paradise
    The Moon and Sixpence
    Riptide
    High Wall
    When Ladies Meet
    The Painted Veil
    Ivy
    The Secret Garden
    The Underworld Story
    Murder!
    Blonde Venus

    Other Herbert Marshall Movies I Have Seen:

    Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble
    The Little Foxes
    Angel Face
    If You Could Only Cook
    The Virgin Queen
    A Bill of Divorcement
    Crack-Up

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    1. Hey Flora. First of all that is a lot of Herbert Marshall movies watched. Tally count: 25 for Flora, 14 for you, 10 for me and 8 for Steve. Sorry I could not find any information on Murder! …..and I looked in lots of Variety magazines for some clue to how it did in the United States. I have seen 6 of your favorites…Trouble In Paradise, The Letter and Duel In The Sun being my favorites. I have seen 2 of your “other” movies. Good information and good comment.

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  2. BOB’s 14 “HAVE SEEN” HERBERT MARSHALL MOVIES
    1/Duel in the Sun
    2/Razor’s Edge
    3/Angel Face -one of my favorite B movies ever since I was a boy.
    4/The Fly
    5/The Moon and Sixpence
    6/Midnight Lace***
    7/Black Shield of Falworth – my 3rd fave Marshall movie
    8/Anne of the Indies
    9/List of Adrian messenger
    10/Riders to the Stars
    11/The Weapon
    12/The 3rd Day
    13/The Letter
    14/Crack-Up-this thriller enthralled me the first time I watched it but when I revisited it years later I couldn’t understand what I had seen in it.

    ***Sadly the Cogerson site once again has one of its rare lapses into unprofessionalism in that it misleads as to who the main co-star players are in Midnight Lace. My Doris along with Sexy Rexy and John Gavin are the 3 stars listed above the title in heavy lettering whilst The Thin Woman is mentioned in hardly noticeable letters below the title alongside Roddy McDowell – see Wikipedia/IMDB posters.

    It should be conceded that Thins’ stardom had long gone at that juncture and she was into her ‘middle-aged/elderly lady’ phase and in this one played Doris’ Aunt Bea – ie Thins was merely a Day prop. Such things matter -or at least SHOULD matter – to the true movie buff. So “if you have tears [my beloved fellow movie puritans] prepare to shed them here!”

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    1. Hey Bob…..thanks for the mini-reviews on the 14 Herbert Marshall movies you have seen. I will have to check out Crack-Up. *** Just trying to pay my website provider….and Loy visits help.

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  3. Growing up in the 1950s I was heavily into cowboy and action stars and Herbert Marshall was almost the first ‘prestige’ actor whose name I came across. I was leaving the Castle Cinema over here when I was about 10 years of age after watching a Johnny Mack Brown western when I saw Herbert’s name mentioned on the poster for a coming attraction.

    The film was Captain Blackjack [called simply Blackjack over here] co-starring George Sanders. I recall stopping to gaze at the stills which accompanied the poster and in those days the stills sometimes included a printed line of dialogue relating to the scene concerned.

    In one of the stills Sanders and Herbert were standing talking and one of them was saying to the other in the line quoted on the still “Not for all the tea in China.” For some reason that line made such an impression that it has stuck with me down the years even though I’ve never seen the movie.

    I have seen 14 of the movies listed above -see Part 2 – and my two faves are The Razor’s Edge and The Moon and Sixpence. There is a Dan like thread running through these two movies [even sucking in Captain Blackjack and that still] as of course in Razor’s Edge Herbert plays real-life author W Somerset Maugham.

    The Moon and Sixpence in turn was based on Maugham’s novel. Herbert was 2nd lead in the latter in which George played painter Charles Strickland who was based on the famous Paul Gaugin whom Anthony Quinn played in 1956’s Lust for Life starring Kirk Douglas as Van Gough. John Barrymore had originally been intended for that Sanders role.

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    1. Hey Bob……good information on Herbert Marshall. Interesting about him being your first ‘prestige’ actor that you knew. I liked the quote “Not for all the tea in China”….I wonder if that is were that saying came from? Good job stealing Dan’s thunder…lol. Tally count: 25 for Flora, 14 for you, 10 for me and 8 for Steve. Good stuff as always.

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  5. “An elegant, urbane, and eminently polished leading man, Herbert Marshall defined Hollywood’s image of aristrocratic breeding and class.”

    Rating The Movie Stars 4 Star Herbert Marshall Performances
    1930’s Murder!
    1932’s Blonde Venus
    1932’s Trouble In Paradise
    1934’s Riptide
    1934’s The Painted Veil
    1935’s The Good Fairy
    1935’s The Dark Angel
    1935’s Accent on Youth
    1936’s Till We Meet Again
    1938’s Mad About Music
    1940’s The Letter
    1941’s The Little Foxes
    1942’s The Moon and Sixpence
    1945’s The Unseen
    1945’s The Enchanted Cottage
    1946’s Duel In The Sun
    1947’s Ivy
    1949’s The Secret Garden
    1955’s The Virgin Queen
    1960’s Midnight Lace
    1965’s The Third Day

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    1. Another Joel subject bites the dust..now in the 20s to go….granted it is 29 more to go.

      I have seen 10 of his movies. Favorites would be Duel In The Sun, Foreign Correspondent and The Letter.

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