Scott Marlowe

• Name — Scott Marlowe • Birth Name — Ronald Richard DeLeo • Born — 24 June 1932 • Birthplace — Newark, New Jersey, U.S. • Died — 6 January 2001 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1951–1998

Scott Marlowe appeared in over 100 credited acting roles during his career of 44 years on American television. He was frequently billed a guest star, and appeared on many popular drama, action, sci-fi and fantasy TV shows, including: Route 66, The Wild Wild West, The Time Tunnel, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Mission: Impossible, Marcus Welby, M.D., Wonder Woman, The Rockford Files, Fame, Beauty and the Beast, thirtysomething and Matlock. In 1951 he was first cast in the Pulitzer Prize Playhouse episode "Hostage". This was the start of several roles he would take in various anthology series on television, primarily in 50’s and early 60’s, and occasionally thereafter into the 80's. In 1955, he appeared on Star Tonight which showcased young actors in adapted contemporary literary works. The next year in the episode "In Summer Promise" on General Electric Theater, he starred with Joan Fontaine as a young man who charms an older woman into love who doesn’t know he is to marry his childhood sweetheart. On Zane Grey Theatre, he starred with Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the 1961 episode "The Long Shadow". He would go on to star in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, One Step Beyond, Thriller, Kraft Suspense Theatre, Police Story and Freddy's Nightmares. As his recognition from feature film roles grew, his television career took off and Marlowe began starring in Westerns. He excelled in playing the hotheaded, mean-spirited or misguided youth with little regard for custom or law. He would star in 18 episodes on Western themed shows from 1958 to 1966, making a significant contribution to the genre as he solidified his position into a prominent television actor. In 1958, he played the son of the title character (played by James Whitmore) in the Wagon Train episode "The Gabe Carswell Story". In 1960, he starred opposite Clint Walker playing a white man raised by Apaches, married to a once-captive Mexican woman (Lisa Montell) reintegrating into his home town in the Cheyenne episode "Apache Blood". Also in 1960, he played a young man masquerading as Billy the Kid in "The Show Off" on Law of the Plainsman. In 1962, he guest-starred on Stoney Burke in "Point of Honor" as a troubled, would-be bull rider. The following year, he starred in "Legends Don't Sleep" as an aimless youth who venerates a newly released older ex-con (William Talman) who was once an infamous outlaw, in one of his four appearances on Gunsmoke. Marlowe had three notably sympathetic roles in Have Gun – Will Travel: as an innocent man about to be hanged in "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (1958), as an earnest and seemingly naive Native American appointed sheriff in "Charley Red Dog" (1959) and as an Austrian prince deceived by his advisor (Eduard Franz) in "Duke of Texas" (1961). In 1964, he was a special guest star playing an outlaw whose gang robs the Cartwrights with the sham help of Will Cartwright (Guy Madison) in "The Roper" on Bonanza. After the release of Lonnie in 1963, his theatrical film work became limited, and he increasingly turned to television roles. During the mid-1960s, he moved away from his earlier "bad-boy" screen image and began appearing in a wider range of television dramas, including legal, police, medical and mystery series. He was often cast in antagonist or "heavy" roles, which helped establish him as a recurring guest actor on primetime television. Over the following decades, he continued to appear in television productions, with credits extending into the 1990s. In these dramas he was typically cast as the antagonist (usually a criminal or other unsavory character), such as: a developmentally disabled skiing murderer on Route 66 in the 1961 episode "Effigy in Snow"; on Kraft Suspense Theater in 1964 as a convicted-then-commuted murderer who kidnaps and intends to kill the judge (Ronald Reagan) who sent him to the gas chamber in "A Cruel and Unusual Night"; in 1972 as a songwriter wrongfully suing a singer (Peggy Lee) for plagiarism on Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law in "Smiles from Yesterday" (featuring a young Mark Hamill); a counterfeiter in 1974 on Mannix in "The Green Man" and, on T.J. Hooker as the disgraced ex-partner of Hooker (William Shatner) who kidnaps his daughter in "The Ransom” (1985). Marlowe appeared twice in the original The Outer Limits. As the starring lead in the 1963 episode "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork", he played a worried brother searching for a missing-then-dead scientist played by Michael Forest, with BarBara Luna as his girlfriend and Ed Asner as the investigating police detective. In the 1964 episode "The Forms of Things Unknown" he co-starred with Vera Miles, David McCallum, and Cedric Hardwicke playing a smarmy, blackmailing playboy who won’t stay dead. Much of the footage for this latter episode served as the basis of a reworked plot (using additionally filmed scenes and a different ending) of a pilot created for an unsold horror anthology series called The Unknown. Between 1966 and 1973 he appeared ten times on The F.B.I. taking on nine different characters in the episodes: "The Price of Death" (1966) as a murderous kidnapper teamed with his brother (Robert Blake), whose comatose victim may die without insulin; "Overload" (1967) as a newly-released ex-con with a feline companion, intend on killing the woman (Diana Hyland) he assaulted, while eluding the FBI during a power blackout; "The Tunnel" (1968); "The Young Warriors" (1969); "Blood Tie" (1969); "The Fatal Connection" (1971); "The Mastermind: Parts 1 & 2" (1971); "The Rap Taker" (1973); and "The Exchange" (1973). Beginning in the 1970’s Marlowe played in several made-for-television films starting with the Ted Post-directed sci-fi horror Night Slaves (1970), followed by Travis Logan, D.A. (1971), The Critical List (1978), Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982), the Lee Grant-directed drama No Place Like Home (1989), Seasons of the Heart (1994, starring Carol Burnett), and Following Her Heart (1994, starring Ann-Margret). Later in his career he had recurring roles on four broadcast TV series: the early-cancelled Andy Griffith police drama Adams of Eagle Lake (1975); the short-lived nighttime soap Executive Suite (1976); and, on the daytime soaps Another World (1979) and Days of Our Lives (1984). He took a turn at comedy in 1990 as a guest star with a two-episode character arc playing a gangster kingpin in the sitcom Perfect Strangers. In 1991, Marlowe starred as the Bajoran refugee leader in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ensign Ro". In the 1994 syndicated series Valley of the Dolls he played the character "Michael Burke" in the principal cast, which ran for 65 episodes. Marlowe’s last known television appearance was in the 1995 episode "School for Murder" on Murder, She Wrote.

Marlowe died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on January 6, 2001, at age 68.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref(s) Reference(s) • 1951 — Pulitzer Prize Playhouse — Cast member — Episode: "Hostage" (S1E36) • 1955 — Star Tonight — Cast member — Episode: "One More Day" (S2E07) • 1956 — Matinee Theater — Cast member — Episode: "Bottom of the River" (S1E56) • General Electric Theater — John Goodwin — Episode: "In Summer Promise" (S4E18) • Wire Service — Ricci — Episode: "High Adventure" (S1E12) • 1957 — Studio 57 — Lt. Cushing — Episode: "Rebel Rookie" (S4E09) • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Cast member — Episode: "Pattern for Death" (S7E16) • Lux Video Theatre — Kermit — Episode: "The Latch Key" (S7E39) • 1958 — Flight — Cast member — Episode: "Texas Fliers" (S1E18) • Wagon Train — Jess "Little Elk" Caswell — Episode: "The Gabe Carswell Story" (S1E18) • Have Gun - Will Travel — Roy Carter — Episode: "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (S2E4) • Bronco — John Wesley Hardin — Episode: "The Turning Point" (S1E03) • 1959 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Marshall Charley Red Dog — Episode: "Charley Red Dog" (S3E13) • The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen — Cast Member — Episode: "Confession of Murder" (S1E27) • 1960 — Hotel de Paree — Kid — Episode: "Sundance and the Kid from Nowhere" (S1E15) • Cheyenne — Mickey Free/Ward — Episode: "Apache Blood" (S4E10) • Law of the Plainsman — Clancy James — Episode: "The Show Off" (S1E24) • 1961 — Zane Grey Theater — Jimmy Budd — Episode: "The Long Shadow" (S5E15) • Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Eliot Gray — Episode: "The Throwback" (S6E20) • Route 66 — Armand Fontaine — Episode: "Effigy in Snow" (S1E21) • Have Gun - Will Travel — Duke Franz von Pishin — Episode: "Duke of Texas" (S4E31) • One Step Beyond — Mario — Episode: "The Gift" (S3E19) • Straightaway — Les — Episode: "Die Laughing" (S1E5) • The Aquanauts — Ernie Baron — Episode: "The Frankie Adventure" (S1E25) • Thriller — Julian Boucher — Episode: "The Premature Burial" (S2E03) • Target: The Corruptors! — Phil Manzak — Episode: "Mr Megalomania" (S1E08) • 1962 — Stoney Burke — Soames Hewitt — Episode: "Point of Honor" (S1E04) • Saints and Sinners — Frederick Brennen — Episode: "Source of Information" (S1E5) • Dr Kildare — Dr Eddie Moore — Episode: "The Dragon" (S1E20) • Target: The Corruptors! — Tito — Episode: "A Man’s Castle" (S1E26) • The Detectives — Frank Worden — Episode: "Night Boat" (S3E20) • Checkmate — Daniel Brack — Episode: "Brooding Fixation" (S2E22) • King of Diamonds — Danny Hode — Episode: "The Set Up" (S1E25) • Eleventh Hour — Stanley Filmore — Episode: "Where Have You Been, Lord Randall, My Son" (S1E14) • 1963 — Gunsmoke — Britt — Episode: "Legends Don’t Sleep" (S9E03) • The Outer Limits — Jory Peters — Episode: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" (S1E11) • Ben Casey — Jason Landros — Episode: "For this Relief, Much Thanks" (S3E01). The events of this episode were continued in the series debut of Breaking Point. • Breaking Point — Jason Landros — Episode: "Solo for B-Flat Clarinet" (S1E01). A continuation of a two-part story that began on the Ben Casey episode, "For This Relief, Much Thanks". • The Nurses — Paul Wheeler — Episode: "Bitter Pill" (S1E30) • 1964 — Kraft Suspense Theatre — Johnny Baroja — Episode: "My Enemy, This Town" (S1E15) • Bonanza — Lee Hewitt — Episode: "The Roper" (S5E27) • Kraft Suspense Theatre — Sherman "Sherm" Tyler — Episode: "A Cruel and Unusual Night" (S1E28) • The Outer Limits — Andre Pavan — Episode: "The Forms of Things Unknown" (S1E32) • The Unknown — Andre Pavan — An unaired pilot episode for a declined ABC series from a rework of "The Forms of Things to Unknown". • Gunsmoke — Tony Serpa — Episode: "Hung High" (S10E8) • Rawhide — Tate — Episode: "Canliss" (S7E6) • 1965 — Gunsmoke — Lonnie Blane — Episode: "Thursday’s Child" (S10E24) • The Wild Wild West — Ahkeema — Episode: "The Night of the Howling Light" (S1E14) • 1966 — The F.B.I. — Casey — Episode: "The Price of Death" (S2E1) • Gunsmoke — Ed — Episode: "The Brothers" (S11E25) • The Time Tunnel — Jeremiah Gebhardt — Episode: "The Death Trap" (S1E12) • 1967 — The F.B.I. — Charles Nyack — Episode: "Overload" (S3E8) • 1968 — Mannix — Steve Cade — Episode: "You Can Get Killed Out There" (S1E19) • The F.B.I. — Eugene Waring — Episode: "The Tunnel" (S3E26) • 1969 — The F.B.I. — William Rockhill — Episode: "The Young Warriors" (S4E24) • The Outsider — Joe Andrade — Episode: "A Bowl of Cherries" (S1E17) • The F.B.I. — Ricky Kriton — Episode: "Blood Tie" (S5E9) • 1970 — Mission: Impossible — Josef Czerny — Episode: "The Martyr" • Night Slaves — Matt Russell — Television Movie - ABC (Aired 9/29/1970) • Lancer — Billy Kells — Episode: "The Experiment" (S2E18) • 1971 — Travis Logan, D.A. — George Carnera — Television Movie - CBS (from a repackaged TV pilot) • The F.B.I. — Duke Bergan — Episode: "The Fatal Connection" (S6E19) • Medical Center — Steve — Episode: "Double Jeopardy" (S3E4) • The Mod Squad — Keech Thompson — Episode: "The Sentinels" (S4E1) • The F.B.I. — Clenard Massey — Episodes: "The Mastermind Parts 1 & 2" (S7E6&7) • 1972 — The Streets of San Francisco — Dimitri Kampacalas — Episode: "Bitter Wine" (S1E12) • Cade's County — Leo Rand — Episode: "Inferno" (S1E19) • Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law — Boyd Davies — Episode: "Smiles from Yesterday" (S1E21) • Ironside — Jeffrey — Episode: "The Deadly Gamesmen" (S6E10) • 1973 — Cannon — Pappy Harris — Episode: "To Ride a Tiger" (S2E19) • The F.B.I. — Bob Stern — Episode: "The Rap Taker" (S8E16) • The F.B.I. — Ray Curtis — Episode: "The Exchange" (S9E5) • 1974 — Police Story — Terry Young — Episodes: "Countdown: Parts 1 & 2" (S1E12&13) • Barnaby Jones — Vincent Talbot — Episode: "Friends Till Death" (S2E19) • Mannix — Turner Dabney — Episode: "The Green Man" (S8E5) • Hawaii Five-O — Army/Starwood — Episode: "The Young Assassins" (S7E01) • 1975 — Adams of Eagle Lake — Ron Selleck — Reoccurring Character - 2 Episodes (S1E1&2) • 1976 — Executive Suite — Nick Koslo — Recurring Character 1976-1977 - 10 Episodes • 1978 — Wonder Woman — Angie — Episode: "The Deadly Sting" (S3E3) • The Critical List — Dr Albert Dubron — Television Movie - NBC (Aired 9/11/1978) • Quincy, M.E. — Joe DiCenzio — Episode: "The Last Six Hours" (S4E1) • The Rockford Files — Augie Arnow — Episode: "Local Man Eaten by Newspaper" (S5E11) • 1979 — Another World — Frank Lansing — Recurring Character - 4 Episodes (1.3812, 1.3818, 1.3824 & 1.3877) • Barnaby Jones — Peter — Episode: "Fatal Overdose" (S7E19) • 1982 — Thou Shalt Not Kill — Mr. Lochman — Television Movie - NBC (Filmed 1979; Aired 4/12/1982) • The Fall Guy — Bill — Episode: "Three for the Road" (S1E21) • 1983 — The Powers of Mathew Star — Latimer — Episode: "The Great Waldo Shepard" (S1E19) • 1984 — Automan — Robert Sawyer — Episode: "Ships in the Night" (S1E4) • Days of Our Lives — Eric Brady — Recurring Character - 6 Episodes • Matt Houston — John — Episode: "Blood Money" (S3E10) • 1985 — Fame — Bob Demeter — Episode: "Danny De Bergerac" (S4E18) • T.J. Hooker — Marty Lathon — Episode: "The Ransom" (S5E1) • Cagney & Lacey — Claude Sycamore — Episode: "Lottery" (S5E4) • 1989 — Hunter — Ray Brill — Episode: "On Air" (S6E1) • Beauty and the Beast — Richard Nolan — Episode: "Trial" (S2E17) • No Place Like Home — Eddie Cooper — Television Movie - CBS (Aired 12/3/1989) • thirtysomething — Leo Steadman — Episode: "Michael’s Campaign" (S3E10) • Freddy's Nightmares — Dr. Brandon Kepler — Episode: "Death Come True" (S2E1) • 1990 — Perfect Strangers — Marco Madison — 2 Episodes: "The Men Who Knew Too Much: Parts 1 & 2" (S6E7&8) • Matlock — Al Blackman — 2 Episodes: "The Informer: Parts 1 & 2" (S4E20&21) • Father Dowling Mysteries — Jack Patton — Episode: "The Murder Weekend Mystery" (S3E7) • 1991 — Equal Justice — Mr. Weiss — Episode: "Endgame" (S2E2) • Star Trek: The Next Generation — Keeve Falor — Episode: "Ensign Ro" (S5E03) • | Jake and the Fatman — Moffit — Episode: "I Cover the Waterfront" (S6E17) • 1994 — McKenna — Bobby Clark — Episode: "The Pursuit" (S1E6) • Seasons of the Heart — Mike Santucci — Television Movie - NBC (Aired 5/24/1994) • Following Her Heart — Frank — Television Movie - NBC (Aired 11/28/1994) • Valley of the Dolls — Michael Burke — Principle cast member - 65 Episodes • 1995 — | Murder, She Wrote — Avery Nugent — Episode: "School for Murder" (S11E19)

Marlowe, born Ronald Richard DeLeo, the son of Emile and Concetta DeLeo, made his film debut with an uncredited role in Attila (1955). Over the next few years, he began accruing supporting parts in several films, co-starring opposite Leslie Caron in Gaby (1956); in Michael Curtiz’s film noir, The Scarlet Hour (1956); with Russ Tamblyn in The Young Guns (1956); opposite the Robert Ryan-led ensemble cast of Men in War (1957); and a young Anne Bancroft in The Restless Breed (1957). However, in 1958, he garnered a pair of lead roles in teen exploitation films dealing with juvenile delinquency: Young and Wild and The Cool and the Crazy — the latter of which not only co-starred another rising star in the subgenre, Richard Bakalyan, but proved to be Marlowe's breakthrough role. He followed this up with Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) and The Subterraneans (1960). The latter featured an all-star cast and was adapted from Jack Kerouac's novel, albeit severely diluted from its original beatnik content. In 1961, he starred opposite Lola Albright in the May-December independent romantic drama, A Cold Wind in August. Despite only being eight years younger than her, Marlowe portrayed a character half of Albright's age who was seduced and fell in love, but complications arose when her burlesque stripper past interfered with his idealized perception. Subsequently, concentrating on television, his film roles dissipated after that. After Lonnie (1963), Marlowe would not appear in another feature film until Journey into Fear (1975), followed by Circle of Power (1981). In the 1990s, he had roles in one more theatrical film, Chasers (1994). The last two, Lightning in a Bottle (1998) and Counter Measures (1999), both went direct-to-video on VHS.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref(s) Reference(s) • 1955 — Attila — Uncredited • 1956 — Gaby — Jan • The Scarlet Hour — Vince • The Young Guns — Knox Cutler • 1957 — Men in War — Private Meredith • The Restless Breed — James Allan • 1958 — Young and Wild — Richard Edward ‘Rick’ Braden • The Cool and the Crazy — Bennie Saul • 1959 — Riot in Juvenile Prison — Eddie Bassett • 1960 — The Subterraneans — Julien Alexander • 1961 — A Cold Wind in August — Vito Pellegrino • 1963 — Lonnie — Lonnie • 1975 — Journey into Fear — Jose • 1981 — Circle of Power — Ted Bartel — Also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend. • 1994 — Chasers — Fast Food Clown • 1998 — Lightening in a Bottle — Sydney Langley — Direct-to-video • 1999 — Counter Measures — Ambassador Silver — Also known as Crash Dive II.; Direct-to-video