Biography
Archibald Marshall Bell (born September 28, 1942) is an American actor. He has appeared in many character roles in movies and television. His best-known movies are probably A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), Stand by Me (1986), Twins (1988) and Total Recall (1990). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Bell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dreams
2025
as Michael McCarthy
Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international recognition and a life in the US. Believing his lover, Jennifer, a socialite and ...

Blackout
2023
as Jack Hammond
Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf. He distances himself f...

Love is Love is Love
2021
as John (segment "Sailing Lesson")
Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily ...

Mainstream
2021
as Marty
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side o...

Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
2019
as Self
Mark Patton sets the records straight about the controversial 1985 sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended his acting career, just as it was ...

The Last Word
2017
as Edward
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of find...

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Colonel Maxwell
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...

Thirty Nine
2016
as Lawyer
A jagged journey through the world of love, lust and divorce in the perilous world of Los Angeles.

Director's Cut
2016
as Moving Company Guy
Herbert Blount is a crowdfunding contributor for the new Adam Rifkin feature KNOCKED OFF. Unhappy with the film, he steals the footage and kidnaps act...

The Congressman
2016
as Sherm Hawkins
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out a...

Waffle Street
2015
as Miles Drake III
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the gre...

90 Minutes in Heaven
2015
as Dr. Greider
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.

A Bit of Bad Luck
2014
as Mr. Creech
Brooks Caldwell, (Cary Elwes) an erudite and handsome lawyer, seems to have it all: wealth, social status and a red hot career. His success is, in rea...

Palo Alto
2013
as Jake
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.

The Bling Ring
2013
as L.A. Detective #1
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Home, James
2013
as Larry
Home, James is a romance that follows James, a local Tulsa photographer as he falls for Cooper, a party girl looking for a way out of town, who both i...

To the Wonder
2013
as Bob
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, w...

Somebody Up There Likes Me
2013
as Lyla's Father
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfil...
The Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher
2012
as Uncle Virgil
Just after his 30th birthday, the awkward and mostly untalented Duncan Christopher moves to the big city of Tulsa, Oklahoma to test his rock and roll ...

The American Tetralogy
2012
as The Bad Handsome Old Man
Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinema...

The Rum Diary
2011
as Donavon
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the ...

Puncture
2011
as Jeffrey Dancort
A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.
Remember Alice Bell?
2011
as Phillip
A 35 year old woman - Alice Bell - is at a point of re-examination, wondering how her life went so wrong over the last ten years.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a...

Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
as Self
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Heidi 4 Paws
2008
as Mr. Sesehund (voice)
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro...

Hamlet 2
2008
as Principal Rocker
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical ...

Rescue Dawn
2007
as Admiral
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Nancy Drew
2007
as John Leshing
Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned w...

The Attackmen
2007
as Headmaster Wheatley
"The Attackman" refers to the players on a Lacrosse team positioned to score the most points in this aggressive sport. And Lacrosse means everything t...

The Astronaut Farmer
2007
as Judge Miller
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unli...

Room 6
2006
as Amy's Dad
A schoolteacher with a phobia of hospitals finds herself searching for her boyfriend inside one while teaming up with a man suffering the same ordeal ...

Art School Confidential
2006
as Lonny
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really ...

Capote
2005
as Warden Marshall Krutch
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

Dandelion
2004
as Uncle Bobby
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love s...

Identity
2003
as District Attorney
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...

Comic Book Villains
2002
as Gun Store Order
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book sho...

Serving Sara
2002
as Warren Cebron
When Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texan hus...

Beneath Clouds
2002
as Boy at Service Station
The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison...

Sand
2000
as Gus
A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.

Mercy
2000
as Gil Reynolds
Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive...

Face the Music
2000
as Tommy the Bartender
Dan Stone's band may have just been dumped from their record label, but they're still young and they still feel like they've got a few hits left in th...

Black & White
1999
as Toast
Chris O'Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is lo...

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
as Joseph
In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Chri...

Late Last Night
1999
as Bartender
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and int...

A Slipping Down Life
1999
as Mr. Casey
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.

Virus
1999
as J.W. Woods Jr.
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be des...

One of Our Own
1998
as Col. Dale Cameron
Michael Ironside headlines the cast as Jack, a Denver cop investigating the case of a murdered army sergeant. Things heat up when we learn that the de...

Starship Troopers
1997
as General Owen
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from...

The End of Violence
1997
as Call
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

The Brave
1997
as Larry
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of whi...

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Police Lieutenant
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap ...

Crazy Horse
1996
as Senator William B. Allison
The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

Too Fast Too Young
1996
as Detective Quentin Thompson
Chase Parish seeks refuge with his young cousin, Dalton, after escaping from prison and launching a one-man cop-killing spree. Chase ultimately persua...

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Lt. Atwater
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

W.E.I.R.D. World
1995
as Kendall
Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emot...
Runway One
1995
as Hanson
An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.

Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Colonel Pederson
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through...

Payback
1995
as Tom "Gully" Gullerman
Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money....

Just Looking
1995
as Dave
An architect becomes a voyeur when he spies upon his female neighbor.

Love Is a Gun
1994
as Jean's Husband
A model causes an obsessed police photographer to lose his girlfriend and become a murder suspect.

Probable Cause
1994
as Instructor
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the de...

The Puppet Masters
1994
as General Morgan
The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their minds.

Natural Born Killers
1994
as Deputy #1
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Airheads
1994
as Carl Mace
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold ...

The Silence of the Hams
1994
as Cross Dressing Agent
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.

The Chase
1994
as Ari Josephson
Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. ...

Undercover Blues
1993
as Sikes
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...

Innocent Blood
1992
as Marsh
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than s...

Diggstown
1992
as Warden Bates
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is t...

Leather Jackets
1992
as Stranger
Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a ...

The Vagrant
1992
as The Vagrant
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991
as Walter Wojdakowski
The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.

Oscar
1991
as Reporter #1
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite ...

Air America
1990
as O.V.
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for lo...

Total Recall
1990
as George / Kuato
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory im...

Dick Tracy
1990
as Lips' Cop
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Twins
1988
as Webster
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proporti...

Wildfire
1988
as Lewis
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, D...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Frank
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

Johnny Be Good
1988
as Chief Elkans
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one ...

Cherry 2000
1987
as Bill
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t...

No Way Out
1987
as Assassin
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretar...

Manhunter
1986
as Atlanta Policeman
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...

Stand by Me
1986
as Mr. Lachance
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordi...

Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986
as Jeff's Stepfather
Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a busine...

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985
as Coach Schneider
Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. There, he is ...

Birdy
1984
as Ronsky
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and h...
You are in Hell!
N/A
as Self
Marshall Bell talks about The Vagrant.