--- name: "Tully Marshall" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tully-marshall" fi1m_id: "tully-marshall" imdb_id: "nm0551222" tmdb_id: 13359 wikidata_id: "Q2063267" roles: ["Actor"] born: "9 April 1864" died: "10 March 1943" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 84 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-25T01:06:18.928788+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." --- # Tully Marshall ## Identity Tully Marshall - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tully-marshall - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tully-marshall - **IMDb ID:** nm0551222 - **TMDB ID:** 13359 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2063267 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully_Marshall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2063267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551222/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13359 Actor. Born 9 April 1864 in Nevada City, California, USA. Died 10 March 1943. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 9 April 1864, Nevada City, California, USA - **Died:** 10 March 1943 - **Active:** 1916–1932 - **Also known as:** William Phillips, Tully Marshall Phillips, William Phipps - **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1910s 83 (1), 1930s 85 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully_Marshall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2063267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551222/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13359 ## Biography Tully Marshall was an American character actor. Born William Phillips in Nevada City, California, he began his stage career in San Francisco in 1883 and appeared in numerous Broadway productions from 1887. He made his film debut in 1914 and worked steadily in both silent and sound films until his death. Marshall is known for roles including the High Priest of Bel in D. W. Griffith's *Intolerance* (1916), Zeke in *The Big Trail* (1930), Gerstenkorn in *Grand Hotel* (1932), the Managing Editor in *Scarface* (1932), Professor Robinson in *Ball of Fire* (1941) and Alvin Brewster in *This Gun for Hire* (1942). He was married to screenwriter and playwright Marion Fairfax from 1899 until his death. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Scarface* (1932), Fi1m 85, as Managing Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/scarface-1932.md) - *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), Fi1m 83, as High Priest of Bel / Friend of the Musketeer — [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md) ## Complete filmography (181) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Hitler's Madman* (1943), as Teacher (uncredited) - *Behind Prison Walls* (1943), as James J. MacGlennon - *Ten Gentlemen from West Point* (1942), as Grandpa - *Moontide* (1942), as Simpson - *This Gun for Hire* (1942), as Alvin Brewster - *Ball of Fire* (1941), as Prof. Robinson - *Sergeant York* (1941), as Uncle Lige (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md) - *For Beauty's Sake* (1941), as Julius H. Pringle - *Chad Hanna* (1940), as Mr. Mott - *Go West* (1940), as Dan Wilson (uncredited) - *Youth Will Be Served* (1940), as Rufus Britt - *Brigham Young* (1940), as Judge - *Invisible Stripes* (1939), as Old Peter - *Blue Montana Skies* (1939), as Steve - *The Kid From Texas* (1939), as Adam Lambert - *Hold That Kiss* (1938), as Mr. Lazarus - Travel Customer - *Making the Headlines* (1938), as Stuart Hackett - *Arsène Lupin Returns* (1938), as Monelle - *A Yank at Oxford* (1938), as Cephas - *Mr. Boggs Steps Out* (1938), as Morton Ross - *Hold 'Em Navy* (1937), as The 'Admiral' - *Stand-In* (1937), as Fowler Pettypacker - *She Asked for It* (1937), as Old Man Stettin - *Souls at Sea* (1937), as Pecora - *California Straight Ahead* (1937), as Harrison - *Diamond Jim* (1935), as Minister - *Black Fury* (1935), as Tommy Poole - *Murder on the Blackboard* (1934), as MacFarland - *Massacre* (1934), as Jake - *Laughing at Life* (1933), as Stone - *Fighting With Kit Carson* (1933), as Jim Bridge [Chs. 1-2] - *Corruption* (1933), as Gorman - *Night of Terror* (1933), as Richard Rinehart - *Afraid to Talk* (1932), as District Attorney. Anderson - *Red Dust* (1932), as 'Mac' McQuarg - *The Cabin in the Cotton* (1932), as Slick - *Grand Hotel* (1932), as Gerstenkorn - *Klondike* (1932), as Hinman - *Exposure* (1932), as John Ward - *The Hollywood Handicap* (1932), Actor - *The Hurricane Express* (1932), as The Railroad Manager - *Two-Fisted Law* (1932), as Sheriff Malcolm - *Night Court* (1932), as Grogan - *Strangers of the Evening* (1932), as Robert Daniels - *Scarface* (1932), as Managing Editor — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/scarface-1932.md) - *Scandal for Sale* (1932), as Simpkins - *Arsène Lupin* (1932), as Gaston Gourney-Martin - *The Beast of the City* (1932), as Defence Attorney Michaels - *The Hatchet Man* (1932), as Long Sen Yat - *Broken Lullaby* (1932), as Gravedigger (uncredited) - *The Unholy Garden* (1931), as Baron de Jonghe - *The Millionaire* (1931), as Briggs - *Virtuous Husband* (1931), as Ezra Hunniwell - *Fighting Caravans* (1931), as Jim Bridger - *Tom Sawyer* (1930), as Muff Potter - *The Big Trail* (1930), as Zeke - *One Night at Susie's* (1930), as Buckeye Bill - *Common Clay* (1930), as W.H. Yates - *Dancing Sweeties* (1930), as Pa Cleaver - *Numbered Men* (1930), as Lemuel Barnes - *Murder Will Out* (1930), as Dr. Mansfield - *Redemption* (1930), as Artimiev - *Under a Texas Moon* (1930), as Gus Aldrich - *Mammy* (1930), as Slats - *She Couldn't Say No* (1930), as Big John - *Burning Up* (1930), as Dave Gentry - *Queen Kelly* (1929), as Jan Vryheid (uncredited) - *Tiger Rose* (1929), as Hector McCollins - *The Show of Shows* (1929), as Performer in "The Pirate" / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited) - *Redskin* (1929), as Navajo Jim - *Skin Deep* (1929), as Dr. Bruce Langdon - *The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu* (1929), Actor - *Thunderbolt* (1929), as Warden - *Conquest* (1928), as Dr. Gerry - *Alias Jimmy Valentine* (1928), as Avery - *The Perfect Crime* (1928), as Frisbie - *The Trail of '98* (1928), as Salvation Jim - *Mad Hour* (1928), as Lawyer - *Drums of Love* (1928), as Bopi - *The Gorilla* (1927), as William Townsend - *The Cat and the Canary* (1927), as Roger Crosby - *Beware of Widows* (1927), as Peter Chadwick - *Jim the Conqueror* (1926), as Dave Mahler - *Twinkletoes* (1926), as Dad Minasi - *Her Big Night* (1926), as J.Q. Adams, reporter - *Old Loves and New* (1926), as Hosein - *Clothes Make the Pirate* (1926), as Scute - *Torrent* (1926), as Don Andrés - *The Pace That Thrills* (1925), as Hezekiah Sims - *The Merry Widow* (1925), as Baron Sadoja - *The Half-Way Girl* (1925), as The Crab - *The Talker* (1925), as Henry Fells - *Smouldering Fires* (1925), as Scotty - *He Who Gets Slapped* (1924), as Count Mancini - *The Ridin' Kid from Powder River* (1924), as The Spider - *Along Came Ruth* (1924), as Israel Hubbard - *Reckless Romance* (1924), as Judge Somers - *Passion's Pathway* (1924), as Butler - *Hold Your Breath* (1924), as Blake - *The Right of the Strongest* (1924), as 'Mister' Sykes - *Pagan Passions* (1924), as Dr. Trask - *The Stranger* (1924), as The Stranger - *Her Temporary Husband* (1923), as John Ingram - *The Dangerous Maid* (1923), as Simon (the peddler) - *Let's Go* (1923), as Ezra Sprowl - *Ponjola* (1923), as Count Blauhimel - *The Meanest Man in the World* (1923), as Client - *Thundergate* (1923), as Suen Tung - *Richard the Lion-Hearted* (1923), as Archbishop of Tyre - *Defying Destiny* (1923), as Dr. Gregory - *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1923), as El Rey Luis XI - *The Barefoot Boy* (1923), as Tom Adams - *The Brass Bottle* (1923), as Professor Hamilton - *Law of the Lawless* (1923), as Ali Mechmet - *Broken Hearts of Broadway* (1923), as Barney Ryan - *Temporary Marriage* (1923), as Hugh Manners, a lawyer - *Fools and Riches* (1923), as John Dorgan - *The Covered Wagon* (1923), as Jim Bridges - *Dangerous Trails* (1923), as Steve Bradley - *Only a Shop Girl* (1922), as Watkins' Store Manager - *The Beautiful and Damned* (1922), Actor - *Deserted at the Altar* (1922), as Squire Simpson - *The Super-Sex* (1922), as Mr. Higgins - *Good Men and True* (1922), as Fite - *The Village Blacksmith* (1922), as Squire Ezra Brigham - *Without Compromise* (1922), as Samuel McAllister - *The Ladder Jinx* (1922), as Peter Stalton - *Is Matrimony a Failure?* (1922), as Amos Saxby - *Too Much Business* (1922), as Amos Comby - *Penrod* (1922), as Mr. Schofield - *Any Night* (1922), as Jerry Maguire (The Weasel) - *Lotus Blossom* (1921), Actor - *Hail the Woman* (1921), as 'Odd Jobs Man' - *Silent Years* (1921), as Captain Longville - *The Cup of Life* (1921), as Chan Chang - *The Little 'Fraid Lady* (1920), as Giron - *Her Beloved Villain* (1920), as Dr. Joseph Poulard - *What Happened To Rosa* (1920), as Percy Peacock - *Honest Hutch* (1920), as Thomas Gunnison - *The Slim Princess* (1920), as Papova - *Sick Abed* (1920), as Chalmers - *The Dancin' Fool* (1920), as Charle Harkins - *The Gift Supreme* (1920), as Irving Stagg - *Excuse My Dust* (1920), as President Mutchler - *Double Speed* (1920), as Donald McPherson - *Hawthorne of the U.S.A.* (1919), as Nitchi - *The Lottery Man* (1919), Actor - *The Grim Game* (1919), as Richard Raver - *The Life Line* (1919), as Joe Heckett - *Her Kingdom of Dreams* (1919), as Langley - *The Fall of Babylon* (1919), as High Priest of Bel - *The Crimson Gardenia* (1919), as Alfred le Duc - *The Lady of Red Butte* (1919), as Spanish Ed - *Daughter of Mine* (1919), as Pap Mendelsohn / Lord Noblebrow - *The Girl Who Stayed at Home* (1919), as Cutie's old friend - *Maggie Pepper* (1919), as Sam Darkin - *Cheating Cheaters* (1919), as Ira Lazarre - *The Squaw Man* (1918), as Sir John Applegate - *Too Many Millions* (1918), as Artemus Wilkins - *The Man from Funeral Range* (1918), as Frank Beekman - *Bound in Morocco* (1918), as Ali Pah Shush - *We Can't Have Everything* (1918), as The Director - *Old Wives for New* (1918), as Simcox - *M'Liss* (1918), as Judge Joshua McSnagley - *The Whispering Chorus* (1918), as F.P. Clumley - *The Thing We Love* (1918), as Henry D. Kenwood - *A Modern Musketeer* (1917), as James Brown - *The Devil Stone* (1917), as Silas Martin - *The Countess Charming* (1917), as Dr. John Cavendish - *Unconquered* (1917), as Juke - *A Romance of the Redwoods* (1917), as Sam Sparks - *The Golden Fetter* (1917), as Henry Slade - *Joan the Woman* (1916), as L'Oiseleur - *Oliver Twist* (1916), as Fagin - *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), as High Priest of Bel / Friend of the Musketeer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md) - *The Devil's Needle* (1916), as John Minturn - *A Child of the Paris Streets* (1916), as Jacques Dufrane - *Martha's Vindication* (1916), as Sell Hawkins - *Let Katie Do it* (1916), as Oliver Putnam - *The Sable Lorcha* (1915), as John Soy - *Paid in Full* (1914), as Joe Brooks ## Gallery - ![Tully Marshall](https://film.one/media/person/3848145/gallery-d54a9d643071.jpg) Tully Marshall — Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Tully_Marshall_in_Fighting_Caravans.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Still from the American western film The Covered Wagon (1923). Subjects: motion pictures, actors, actresses](https://film.one/media/person/3848145/gallery-35c8bebbb311.jpg) Still from the American western film The Covered Wagon (1923). Subjects: motion pictures, actors, actresses — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/The_Covered_Wagon_%28SAYRE_14516%29.jpg/1280px-The_Covered_Wagon_%28SAYRE_14516%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![L. to R. : Ernest Torrence, Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, and Tully Marshall in Fighting Caravans (1931) - publicity still](https://film.one/media/person/3848145/gallery-2ca5f21fcdb1.jpg) L. to R. : Ernest Torrence, Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, and Tully Marshall in Fighting Caravans (1931) - publicity still — unknown (Paramount), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Fighting_Caravans_%281931%29_2.jpg/1280px-Fighting_Caravans_%281931%29_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Still from the American western film The Covered Wagon (1923). Subjects: motion pictures, actors](https://film.one/media/person/3848145/gallery-addcf441cb0d.jpg) Still from the American western film The Covered Wagon (1923). Subjects: motion pictures, actors — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/The_Covered_Wagon_%28SAYRE_14007%29.jpg/1280px-The_Covered_Wagon_%28SAYRE_14007%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tully Marshall](https://film.one/media/person/3848145/gallery-8eb10ccf1b26.jpg) Tully Marshall — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/tully-marshall