Larry Marshall

Larry Marshall is an American actor and singer who built his career in musical theater and film. Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and raised in South Carolina and New York, he formed a doo-wop group as a boy and later studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, Xavier University, and Fordham University. In his junior year there he was cast in a chorus part in Porgy and Bess and toured with the opera internationally; after graduating he kept performing it around the country and on Broadway, and his turn as Sportin' Life brought Tony and Drama Desk nominations, a part he went on playing into the 1990s. His Broadway work also took in The Full Monty, The Color Purple, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. On screen he was Simon Zealotes in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and Cab Calloway in The Cotton Club, a portrayal Calloway himself praised. He appeared in the 2015 documentary Superstars.