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name: "John Marriott"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-marriott"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 January 1893"
died: "5 April 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:32:37.316161+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# John Marriott

Actor. Born 30 January 1893 in Oklahoma. Died 5 April 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 January 1893, Oklahoma
- **Died:** 5 April 1977
- **Active:** 1941–1975
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 85 (1), 1970s 90 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marriott_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6246818, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550191/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14550

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Little Foxes*](https://film.one/film/the-little-foxes.md) (85)

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## Biography

John Marriott was an American actor whose career in theatre, film and television spanned five decades. He began performing with the Karamu Players in Cleveland in the early 1920s before moving to New York, where he appeared in numerous Broadway productions from the 1930s onwards.

In 1939 he originated the role of Cal in the Broadway production of *The Little Foxes*. He reprised the part in the 1941 film adaptation directed by William Wyler. His other screen credits include *The Joe Louis Story* (1953), *Black Like Me* (1964) and *Dog Day Afternoon* (1975), in which he played Howard.

Marriott continued to work on stage into the 1970s, with his final New York appearance in *The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia* in 1976. He died in Jamaica, New York, in 1977.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Dog Day Afternoon* (1975), Fi1m 90, as Howard — [page](https://film.one/film/dog-day-afternoon.md)
- *The Little Foxes* (1941), Fi1m 85, as Cal — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-foxes.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dog Day Afternoon* (1975), as Howard — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/dog-day-afternoon.md)
- *Badge 373* (1973), Actor
- *If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band* (1972), as Jessie
- *Dear Dead Delilah* (1972), as Marshall
- *Corky* (1972), as Junkman
- *Black Like Me* (1964), as Hodges
- *The Patty Duke Show* (1963), series, Actor
- *Route 66* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Joe Louis Story* (1953), as Sam Langford
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Buckner, Isaac
- *Suspense* (1949), series, as Tom
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor
- *The Little Foxes* (1941), as Cal — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-foxes.md)

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