Don Marshall

Acting

Don Marshall

Born 1936-05-02 · San Diego, California, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Donald James Marshall (May 2, 1936 - October 30, 2016) was was an American actor best known for his role as "Dan Erickson" in the television show "Land of the Giants (1968-1970)". He was one of four children and was schooled at San Diego High School. He was studying engineering between 1956 and 1957, and was encouraged to try acting by a friend, Peter Bren. Marshall was still in the army at this time. He studied acting at the Bob Gist Dramatic Workshop, while studying Theatre Arts at Los Angeles City College. Marshall has provided consultation on matters connected with his work and with racial issues, and has received an award for "Outstanding Achievement in his field as a Black Achiever in the United States". Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Marshall (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Thing with Two Heads poster
5.0

A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.

The Thing with Two Heads

1972

Rescue from Gilligan's Island poster
4.5

When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one structure in order to have any chance to ride the disaster out.

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

1978

Sergeant Ryker poster
6.3

During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.

Sergeant Ryker

1968

Uptown Saturday Night poster
6.2

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Uptown Saturday Night

1974

Terminal Island poster
5.3

After the U.S. Supreme Court banishes the death penalty, California decides to exile all convicted murderers to the remote island of San Bruno, overseen by a tyrannical camp leader who forces all female inmates into sex slavery.

Terminal Island

1973

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault poster
5.8

Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

2016

The Interns poster
6.0

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.

The Interns

1962

Shock Treatment poster
6.8

A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.

Shock Treatment

1964

The Reluctant Heroes poster
8.0

An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an important mission in Korea.

The Reluctant Heroes

1971

Highway Heartbreaker poster
5.0

Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.

Highway Heartbreaker

1992

The Suicide's Wife poster
7.0

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.

The Suicide's Wife

1979