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Actor E.G. Marshall Dies

Emmy-winning character actor E.G. Marshall--who made a career out of playing politicians and law types--has died at 84. (Other sources listed him as 88.)

His agent says the actor had recently been ill and died at his suburban New York home Monday night. No official cause of death has been announced.

Marshall's varied show-biz career lasted some 60 years, ranging from radio (CBS Radio Mystery Theater) to Broadway (The Iceman Cometh, The Crucible, Waiting for Godot) to TV (The New Doctors, guests on Chicago Hope, The Brady Bunch and The Cosby Show) and movies (The Caine Mutiny, 12 Angry Men, Superman II).

His signature role, of course, was lawyer Lawrence Preston in CBS' The Defenders. He won back-to-back Emmys in 1962 and 1963 for the courtroom drama.

Marshall noted he'd played so many judges, lawyers and politicians, he was frequently confused for the real deal.

Everett G. Marshall was born in Minnesota to Norwegian parents. (His birth year's listed as either 1910 or 1914.) He gave up a career as minister when he decided he was agnostic. Instead, he took to acting, appearing on local radio broadcasts. He made his way to Broadway in a 1938 drama, Prologue to Glory. His first film part was an uncredited morgue attendant in 1945's The House on 92nd Street.

Marshall's recent gigs included parts in Oliver Stone's Nixon and Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood. Last year, he reprised his Preston persona for two new Defenders episodes on Showtime.

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