Marshall Reed

Marshall Reed was an American actor who amassed more than 200 film credits from 1943 to 1978. Born in Englewood, Colorado, he began in children's theater and later gained his first professional experience in summer stock at Elitch Gardens in Denver. He wrote and produced for Denver theater groups before he formed a West Coast stock company of his own. Reed's first film was Bordertown Gun Fighters, a 1943 western. For Columbia and Republic he made many westerns and serials, often playing action heavies, and he performed many of his own fights and rides. Riding with Buffalo Bill, a 1954 serial, cast him as Buffalo Bill Cody, one of his few sympathetic roles. His films included Angel and the Badman (1947), Stampede (1949) and The Lineup (1958). On television he played Inspector Fred Asher in The Lineup and appeared in action and drama series into the 1970s. His last film was Till Death in 1978.