Garry Marsh

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Garry Marsh
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Garry Marsh in 1932
Born
Leslie March Gerahty

(1902-05-21)21 May 1902
St Margarets, Middlesex, England
Died6 March 1981(1981-03-06) (aged 78)
Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England [1]
Years active1922–1970
Spouse(s)Adele Lawson
Muriel Martin-Harvey

Garry Marsh (21 May 1902 – 6 March 1981) was an English stage and film actor. [2] [3]

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Biography

Born Leslie March Gerahty on 21 May 1902 [4] in St Margarets, Middlesex, [5] his parents were George and Laura. [6] His elder brothers were the author Digby George Gerahty and the journalist Cecil Gerahty. [7]

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. [8]

During the War he served as a Flying Officer in the RAF. [9] 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. [10] He married for the second time to Muriel Martin-Harvey in 1926 in Chelsea, London [11] before divorcing in 1935. [12]

Selected filmography

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  3. "Garry Marsh". The Times. 11 March 1981. p. 16 via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. "Marsh, Garry". The Motion Picture Almanac: 504. 1935. OCLC   4651470.
  5. International Television Almanac, vol. 12, p. 194
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  7. Sell, Jonathan P. A. (2018). "Cecil Gerahty's The Road to Madrid: An Anglo-Irish Falstaff in Spain's Theatre of War". ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies. 39 (39): 11–28. doi: 10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.11-28 .
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