Steven Marlo

A prolific character actor with steely-eyes and distinctively stern features, Marlo could be counted upon to portray tough cookies and villains with consummate ease. Among a bevy of supporting roles and bit parts in 60s and 70s films and TV were occasional leads in second features, such as in Irvin Kershner's thriller The Young Captives (1959) in which he played a homicidal maniac holding an eloping couple hostage. Among numerous appearances on the small screen he could be seen as Native Americans in Death Valley Days (1952), insidious Special Investigations Department officials in Land of the Giants (1968) and as a dapper, straw boater-wearing henchman in the A Piece of the Action (1968). About his career Marlo said in a 2014 interview "I wasn't a big star, but I worked. I made a living at it. It was up and down." An outspoken champion of equal rights and social justice, Marlo's celluloid reputation as a heel certainly did not extend into his personal life. Steven Marlo was born Morr