Marshall Colt

Marshall Colt is a retired American management consultant and former U.S. Navy captain who worked as an actor from 1976 to 1995. Born in New Orleans, he earned a physics degree from Tulane University before serving in the Navy. His acting career began in 1976 with an episode of The Streets of San Francisco and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He played Art Hartman in North Dallas Forty (1979) and later took second billing in the television film McClain's Law, which became a police series where he portrayed detective Harry Gates. His other credits include the ABC drama Lottery, the television film To Heal a Nation (1988), Flowers in the Attic (1987), and Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987). He also appeared in Jagged Edge (1985) and Illegally Yours (1988), with final television roles on Murder, She Wrote and Walker, Texas Ranger. He later became a clinical psychologist.