George Marshall (director), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Marshall (director)

American actor, screenwriter, producer and film and television director

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1891

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 17-Feb-1975

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, television actor, film actor, trade unionist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

George E.
Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history. Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again, The Blue Dahlia, The Sheepman, and How the West Was Won being the biggest exceptions.
Marshall co-directed How the West Was Won with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence.
While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the early silent period doing mostly Westerns, a genre he never completely abandoned.In the 1930s, he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel and Hardy in three classic films, and also working on a variety of comedies for Fox (Many of his films at Fox were destroyed in a vault fire in 1937).
Later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies.
He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, and also worked with W.
C.
Fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers.