Acting

Tiger Joe Marsh

Born 1911-08-25 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tiger Joe Marsh was an actor who founded his entertainment career success with a wrestling career and then a role in film. In 1937, he won the world-wide heavyweight wrestling championship title. Marsh's career beginnings included film roles in "Panic in the Streets" (1950) and the adaptation "The Egyptian" (1954) with Jean Simmons. He went on to act in "Lost in Space" (1965-68), "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (NBC, 1966-67) and "Ready and Willing" (CBS, 1973-74). Later in his career, Marsh acted in the Eddie Albert fantasy "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975). Marsh passed away in May 1989 at the age of 78.

Acting credits

Some Like It Hot poster
8.1

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

Some Like It Hot

1959

On the Waterfront poster
7.9

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

On the Waterfront

1954

Viva Zapata! poster
6.8

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Viva Zapata!

1952

The Egyptian poster
6.5

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.

The Egyptian

1954

The Cat from Outer Space poster
6.0

A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.

The Cat from Outer Space

1978

Head poster
6.2

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Head

1968

Panic in the Streets poster
6.9

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

Panic in the Streets

1950

Pressure Point poster
6.5

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Pressure Point

1962

Pinky poster
7.1

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Pinky

1949

Another Nice Mess poster
4.0

Nixon and Agnew played as Laurel and Hardy.

Another Nice Mess

1972

Vengeance poster
10.0

A Confederate captain's younger brother is flogged to death in a Union stockade. The captain vows revenge. Two years later he finds the men responsible running a rustling operation in a small western town.

Vengeance

1964

The Swinger poster
5.3

An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

The Swinger

1966

Hell's Half Acre poster
5.5

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

Hell's Half Acre

1954

Angel's Flight poster
4.8

A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.

Angel's Flight

1965

How I Spent My Summer Vacation poster
4.2

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

1967

The Rebel Set poster
3.3

Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.

The Rebel Set

1959

Here Come the Jets poster
8.0

The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.

Here Come the Jets

1959

Top of the Heap poster
6.0

A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.

Top of the Heap

1972

Below the Belt poster
6.7

A close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.

Below the Belt

1980

Kitty Can't Help It poster
3.8

If you've ever wondered about the sexual proclivities and appetites of those rollerskating waitresses at old fashioned fast food drive ins, you're surely not alone. A lot of very smart people have given it a lot of thought and the result is this groundbreaking motion picture. Carrying trays of burgers and milkshakes is just the tip of the iceberg, from there it gets heavy. Can you handle it?

Kitty Can't Help It

1975

A Swingin' Affair poster
7.3

Rick is pledging a snooty fraternity at college. He feels out of place because he's a poor kid from the wrong side of town and picks up extra money by fighting in the ring. He doesn't want his potential fraternity brothers to find out about his background or how he makes his money. Trouble arises when the rich, spoiled girlfriend of one of his fraternity "bros" comes on to him.

A Swingin' Affair

1963

Last of the American Hoboes poster
4.5

Previously lost semi-documentary on the rise and fall of American hobo culture.

Last of the American Hoboes

1967