Garry Marsh

Garry Marsh (21 May 1902 – 6 March 1981) was an English stage and film actor.

Biography Born Leslie March Gerahty on 21 May 1902 in St Margarets, Middlesex, his parents were George and Laura. His elder brothers were the author Digby George Gerahty and the journalist Cecil Gerahty.

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.

During World War II he served as a Flying Officer in the RAF. 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. He married for the second time to Muriel Martin-Harvey in 1926 in Chelsea, London before divorcing in 1935.

Selected filmography

Long Odds (1922) – Pat Malone Night Birds (1930) – Archibald Bunny The Professional Guest (1931, Short) – Seton Fanshawe Uneasy Virtue (1931) – Arthur Tolhurst Third Time Lucky (1931) – Capt. Adrian Crowther The Eternal Feminine (1931) – Arthur Williams Dreyfus (1931) – Maj. Esterhazy The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931) – Delbury Stranglehold (1931) – Bruce Dr. Josser, K.C. (1931) – Carson Keepers of Youth (1931) – Knox Postal Orders (1932, Short) The Star Reporter (1932, Short) – Mandel Stamboul (1932) – Prince Cernuwitz After Office Hours (1932) – Brewer Number Seventeen (1932) – Sheldrake COD (1932) – Peter Craven Fires of Fate (1932) – Captain Archer The Maid of the Mountains (1932) – Beppo Don't Be a Dummy (1932) – Captain Fitzgerald A Taxi to Paradise (1933, Short) – George Melhuish Forging Ahead (1933) – Honorable Horace Slimminger The Lost Chord (1933) – Joseph Mendel Falling for You (1933) – Archduke Karl That's a Good Girl (1933) – Francis Moray The Silver Spoon (1933) – Hon. Roland Stone Two Wives for Henry (1933) – Henry Stetson The Love Nest (1933) – Hugo Ask Beccles (1933) – Eustace Beccles Rolling in Money (1934) – Dursingham It's a Cop (1934) – James Risden Warn London (1934) – Van Der Meer Gay Love (1934) – Freddie Milton Money Mad (1934) – Rutherford The Green Pack (1934) – Tubby Storman Josser on the Farm (1934) – Granby Widow's Might (1935) – Barry Carrington Three Witnesses (1935) – Charles Rowton Inside the Room (1935) – Geoffrey Luce Mr. What's-His-Name? (1935) – Yates Full Circle (1935) – Max Reeves Department Store (1935) – Timothy Bradbury Night Mail (1935) – Capt. Ronnie Evans Death on the Set (1935) – Inspector Burford Scrooge (1935) – Belle's Husband Charing Cross Road (1935) – Berry A Wife or Two (1936) – George Hamilton When Knights Were Bold (1936) – Brian Ballymoat Debt of Honour (1936) – Bill The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) – The Buyer The Man in the Mirror (1936) – Tarkington All In (1936) – Lilleywhite The Vicar of Bray (1937) – Sir Richard Melross The Angelus (1937) – Fen Markham Intimate Relations (1937) – George Gommery Melody and Romance (1937) – Warwick Mortimer Leave It to Me (1937) – Sergeant It's a Grand Old World (1937) – Stage Manager A Romance in Flanders (1937) – Rodd Berry Bank Holiday (1938) – 'Follies' Manager The Dark Stairway (1938) – Dr. Mortimer I See Ice (1938) – Tim Galloway The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938) – Sir George Ilford Break the News (1938) – The Producer Convict 99 (1938) – Johnson It's in the Air (1938) – Commanding Officer Hill This Man Is News (1938) – Sergeant Bright The Ringer (1938, TV Movie) – Central Det. Insp. Bliss Let's Be Famous (1939) – Walton Trouble Brewing (1939) – A.G. Brady The Four Just Men (1939) – Reporter This Man in Paris (1939) – Sergeant Bright Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1940) – Dr. Leach Return to Yesterday (1940) – Charlie Miller Hoots Mon! (1940) – Charlie Thompson Let George Do It! (1940) – Mark Mendez I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) – Wallace Dead of Night (1945) – Harry Parker (segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) – Joe Bond The Rake's Progress (1945) – Sir Hubert Parks I See a Dark Stranger (1946) – Capt. Goodhusband A Girl in a Million (1946) – General While the Sun Shines (1947) – Mr. Jordan The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) – Major Elliot Frieda (1947) – Beckwith Dancing with Crime (1947) – Det. Sgt. Murray Just William's Luck (1948) – Mr. Brown Daybreak (1948) – Barbershop Customer (uncredited) Good-Time Girl (1948) – Mr. Hawkins My Brother's Keeper (1948) – Brewster Things Happen at Night (1948) – Spenser William Comes to Town (1948) – Mr. Brown Forbidden (1949) – Jerry Burns Badger's Green (1949) – Major Forrester Murder at the Windmill (1949) – Detective Inspector Paper Orchid (1949) – Johnson Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949) – Mayor Someone at the Door (1950) – Kapel Something in the City (1950) – Mr. Holley Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1950) – Jim Worm's Eye View (1951) – Pop Brownlow The Magic Box (1951) – 2nd Company Promoter Madame Louise (1951) – Mr. Trout The Lost Hours (1952) – Inspector Foster The Voice of Merrill (1952) – Inspector Thornton Those People Next Door (1953) – Sir Andrew Stevens Double Exposure (1954) – Beaumont Aunt Clara (1954) – Arthur Cole Man of the Moment (1955) – British Delegate Johnny, You're Wanted (1956) – Balsamo Who Done It? (1956) – Hancock Trouble with Eve (1960) – Roland Axbridge Upgreen – And at 'Em (1960) Ring of Spies (1964) – 1st Member at Lord's (uncredited) Where the Bullets Fly (1966) – Major Ouch! (1967, Short) – Father Arthur! Arthur! (1969) – Golfer