Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was a prolific American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history. Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again, 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, w...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
as Corky
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatric...

Hook, Line and Sinker
1969
Director
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
1968
Director
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Eight on the Lam
1967
Director
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot.

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1966
Director
Tom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bomb...

Advance to the Rear
1964
Director
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...

Dark Purpose
1964
Director
An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.

Papa's Delicate Condition
1963
Director
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and o...

How the West Was Won
1962
Director
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

The Happy Thieves
1961
Director
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.

Cry for Happy
1961
Director
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

The Gazebo
1960
Director
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.

It Started with a Kiss
1959
Director
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to...

The Mating Game
1959
Director
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to ...

Imitation General
1958
Director
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.

The Sheepman
1958
Director
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with...

The Sad Sack
1957
Director
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tan...

The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
Director
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to...

Beyond Mombasa
1956
Director
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Pillars of the Sky
1956
Director
First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white se...

The Silent Partner
1955
Story, Director
When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not re...

The Second Greatest Sex
1955
Director
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. ...

Destry
1954
Director
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.

Duel in the Jungle
1954
Director
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast...

Red Garters
1954
Director
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and dec...

Money from Home
1953
Director
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-l...

Girl on the Run
1953
as Managing Editor
A hootchy-kootchy whodunit set at a small seedy carnival where a reporter tries to discover who killed his boss while his girlfriend inexplicably join...

Houdini
1953
Director
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackl...

Scared Stiff
1953
Director
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated isla...

Off Limits
1952
Director
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, l...

The Savage
1952
Director
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian...

A Millionaire for Christy
1951
Director
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's i...

Never a Dull Moment
1950
Director
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madiso...

Fancy Pants
1950
Director
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli...

My Friend Irma
1949
Director
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.

Lust for Gold
1949
Director
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of ...

Tap Roots
1948
Director
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con...

Hazard
1948
Director
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private dete...

Variety Girl
1947
as George Marshall
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful ...

Variety Girl
1947
Director
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful ...

The Perils of Pauline
1947
Director
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville p...

Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
Director
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...

The Blue Dahlia
1946
Director
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Hold That Blonde!
1945
Director
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another...

Incendiary Blonde
1945
Director
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underwor...

Murder, He Says
1945
Director
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visitin...

And the Angels Sing
1944
Director
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Po...

True to Life
1943
Director
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins t...

Riding High
1943
Director
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and...

The Forest Rangers
1942
Director
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Director
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...

Valley of the Sun
1942
Director
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

Texas
1941
Director
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the ...

Pot o' Gold
1941
Director
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family ...

When the Daltons Rode
1940
Director
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing the...

The Ghost Breakers
1940
Director
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning he...

Destry Rides Again
1939
Director
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into ...

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
Director
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a...

Hold That Co-ed
1938
Director
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

Battle of Broadway
1938
Director
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 ...

The Goldwyn Follies
1938
Director
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Love Under Fire
1937
Director
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937
Director
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her ...

Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Story, Director
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

The Crime of Dr. Forbes
1936
Director
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.

A Message to Garcia
1936
Director
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

Show Them No Mercy!
1935
Director
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

In Old Kentucky
1935
Director
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ez...

Music Is Magic
1935
Director
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

$10 Raise
1935
Director
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

Life Begins at Forty
1935
Director
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...

365 Nights in Hollywood
1934
Director
Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wea...
Call It Luck
1934
Story
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the...

She Learned About Sailors
1934
Director
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the Sta...

Wild Gold
1934
Director
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevad...

Ever Since Eve
1934
Director
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
1933
Director
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
How to Break 90 #5: Impact
1933
Director
Bobby Jones attempts to undo the damage done by a meddling old fool.

Husbands' Reunion
1933
Director
A couple of young newlyweds are enjoying their marital bliss when they have an unexpected house guest: an ex-husband, played by Catlett. It doesn't ta...
How to Break 90 #4: Downswing
1933
Director
Bobby Jones teaches proper downswing technique with the help of some ancient ghosts.
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action
1933
Director
Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler.
How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
1933
Director
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
How to Break 90 #1: The Grip
1933
Director
Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip.
Caliente Love
1933
Director
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Ca...
Easy on the Eyes
1933
Director
A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.

Towed in a Hole
1932
Director, Idea
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

Their First Mistake
1932
as Neighbor
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says ...

Their First Mistake
1932
Director
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says ...

The Soilers
1932
Director
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to...

Alum and Eve
1932
Director
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.

Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
Director
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man name...

The Old Bull
1932
Director
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics,...

Strictly Unreliable
1932
Director
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932
Director
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Big Dame Hunting
1932
Director
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 12: 'A Round of Golf'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones and narrator O.B. Keeler take viewers on a condensed round of golf.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
1931
Director
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones instructs a husband and the judge in his divorce proceedings on proper use of the Spoon.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones practices the fundamentals with a group of children in the wings.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 4: 'The Mashie Niblick'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones instructs on the use of the Mashie Niblick.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots'
1931
Director
Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
1931
as Himself
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shoo...

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
1931
Director
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shoo...
Uncle's Visit
1929
Director
Grumpy uncle comes to visit but the gang of kids soon have him smiling!

No Children
1929
Director
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

A Man About Town
1927
Director
A comedy short film directed by George Marshall.

Girls
1927
Director
When the girls on campus learn that Tom Drake is so super-shy that he never kissed a girl, they begin betting which one will kiss him first. So the gi...
Matrimony Blues
1926
Supervising Producer
Short film about the title subject played for laughs.

Pawnshop Politics
1926
Supervising Producer
After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty ...

Where Is This West?
1923
Director
John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take h...

Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande
1923
Director
"Pep" Pepper, a romantic cowboy whose faculty for dreaming loses him his job, tries to emulate Don Quixote's courage after reading the Spanish classic...

The Lady from Longacre
1921
Director
To escape a loathsome marriage to the king of a neighboring principality, Princess Isabel flees her kingdom for England, where she is rescued by Lord ...

After Your Own Heart
1921
Director
The Double Bit Ranch and the Rolling G Ranch are at odds over a valuable watering hole.

A Ridin' Romeo
1921
Writer, Director
Jim Rose is a young ranch hand in love with the boss' daughter, Mabel. The rancher, King Brentwood, who is being sued for breach of promise by a local...

Hands Off!
1921
Director
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awar...

Prairie Trails
1920
Director
Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father (Charles K. French) will give his blessings only i...

Ruth of the Rockies
1920
Director
A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the thief.

The Adventures of Ruth
1919
Director
Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, broug...
The Midnight Flyer
1918
Director
One of two former convicts is the brother of a girl station agent. The second ex-convict tries to blackmail the youth and drag him back to a criminal ...

The Man from Montana
1917
Director, Writer
When Dad Petzel is swindled out of the Busy Bee mine, his partner, Duke Farley, ventures East to capture the crooks.
The Devil's Own
1916
Director
"Snake" Matthews is the leader of a notorious gang of outlaws. "Shifty" is the laughing stock of the bunch and never has he been known to strike back ...
A Woman's Eyes
1916
Director, Scenario Writer
Tom Horn is known throughout the cow country as a hard worker and a hard player. Tom is the leader of a gang. The Buzzard stumbles across oil indicati...

Love's Lariat
1916
Writer, Director
A rancher begrudgingly goes east in order the fulfill the requirements of his uncle's will and receive his inheritance.

The Committee on Credentials
1916
Director
Gambler Ballrat Bob tries to halt Clem, a squatter, from gambling away all his money.

The Waiters' Ball
1916
as Laundry Delivery Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but A...