Garry Marsh
Garry Marsh in 1932
Born
Leslie Marsh Gerahty

(1902-06-21)21 June 1902
St Margarets, Middlesex, England
Died6 March 1981(1981-03-06) (aged 78)
Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England[1]
Years active1922–1970
Spouse(s)Adele Lawson
Muriel Martin-Harvey

Garry Marsh (21 June 1902 – 6 March 1981) was an English stage and film actor.[2][3]

Born Leslie Marsh Gerahty in St Margarets, Surrey,[4][5] his parents were George and Laura.[6] His elder brothers were the author Digby George Gerahty and the journalist Cecil Gerahty.[7]

Marsh began acting on the stage at the age of fifteen. He started off in films as a leading man but later became a character actor playing self-important roles.[8]

During the War he served as a Flying Officer in the RAF.[9] In the mid-1950s, he chronicled his wartime adventures in North Africa in the memoir Sand in My Spinach.

Marsh married Adele Lawson in 1920 in Kensington, London.[10] He married for the second time to Muriel Martin-Harvey in 1926 in Chelsea, London[11] before divorcing in 1935.[12]

Selected filmography

References

  1. "Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007".
  2. "Garry Marsh". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
  3. "Garry Marsh". The Times. 11 March 1981. p. 16 via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006".
  5. International Television Almanac, vol. 12, p. 194
  6. Leslie Marsh Cleaver Gerahty. Baptism 1 Nov 1902. St Stephen, Richmond Upon Thames. London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: DRO/090/003. Ancestry.com
  7. Sell, Jonathan P. A. (2018). "Cecil Gerahty's The Road to Madrid: An Anglo-Irish Falstaff in Spain's Theatre of War". ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies. 39 (39): 11–28. doi:10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.11-28.
  8. "Garry Marsh – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos – AllMovie".
  9. "BALLOON. BRANCH". The London Gazette. 35260: 5029. 29 August 1941.
  10. "Search Results for England-and-Wales-Marriages-1837-2008".
  11. "Search Results for England-and-Wales-Marriages-1837-2008".
  12. "NewspaperSG – Terms and Conditions".
  13. Release date for The Magic Box, in IMDb.
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